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In reply to the discussion: Democrats delay change to convention superdelegates [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)Fails to hit the target, much less score a bull's eye.
The first two have the assumption that superdelegates would have served their intended purpose. It's not an effect; it's an assumption projected backwards in time to say the facts wouldn't have turned out as they did.
In other words, super delegates didn't determine the candidate in those two years, and assumptions can vary about how alternative histories would have gone. The claim at issue is that super delegates have never determined the candidate.
Did the super delegates determine the candidate in 2016? No.
HRC got more pledged delegates (those other than superdelegates) than Sanders did. Had the superdelegates gone wild over Sanders and most of them vote for him he could have won the nomination. But the superdelegates didn't override delegates determined by popular vote in a state-by-state election.
https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Convention,_2016 based on what happened in July 2016, not what was asssumed in March 2016 would happen 4 months later.
The assertion stands.