Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumSanders Campaign’s Commitment To Victory Irritates Media, Offends Clinton Campaign
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However, what Bump, Walsh, and others seem to misunderstand is Weaver made his comments under the presumption that neither Clinton nor Sanders will meet the 2,383 pledged delegate threshold needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. Both candidates will need to make cases to superdelegates to clinch the nomination. Clinton will have to keep the superdelegates from switching and Sanders will have to find some way to persuade superdelegates to support him over the establishments favored candidate.
Clinton and Sanders, as has been the case throughout the primary, will bring a significant attention to the superdelegate system employed by the Democratic Party. The surrogates and supporters for both candidates will inevitably find new reasons to loathe the system by the time the convention is over. Both candidates will wage a kind of information war in the media to convince the population that their strategy respects the will of voters, even as the party elites have their moment to demonstrate how they have more influence as superdelegates.
There is nothing wrong with lobbying superdelegates. Dennis Archer, a superdelegate from Michigan and former mayor of Detroit who supports Clinton, told The Guardian, I would do the same thing if I were them and Im not at all offended at them. One would expect that to occur.
Yet, as numerous people reflect on the Democratic primary the day after the New York primary, why is it offensive to so many liberal and establishment Democrats, particularly those who back Clinton?
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)chance of winning the general election.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Legal problems may be coming her way.
Bernie doesn't have that sort of thing to worry about, though naysayers are still demanding he produce his 2015, 2016 and 2017 tax returns!
Baobab
(4,667 posts)People could vote for second and third choices. Then the various parties could share power in proportion to their representation in votes. Many other countries do it that way and they seem often to be more responsive to the people's needs.
postulater
(5,075 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Neither candidate will enter the convention with 2383 pledged delegates. Delegates don't just vote for a candidate there. They also vote on party platform, rules, and other things. It's important for Sanders to have as many delegates as possible. For example, it's very likely many Clinton delegates will vote for most of Sanders platform as the party platform.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)if Bernie quits now, as Hillary supporters demand he do, that weakens any chance of getting his planks nailed into the democratic party Platform - which is exactly why they want him to quit now.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)You'd think Team Weather vane has multiple concerns while waiting for the clock to run out.
lmbradford
(517 posts)They don't get to decide this primary. We the people do and until every state has had their say, shut up and deal with the fact that the people get to chose.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)shireen
(8,333 posts)We need to stand behind Bernie all the way to the convention. This isn't just about the nomination. It's also about creating that movement he's been talking about. It's the only way to bring about sustainable change in politics.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)those wins have an asterisk after them as they were both won under the guise of voter disenfranchisement.