If one candidate wins the popular vote, the other wins more total pledged delegates...

[Clintonista2]

Poll question: If one candidate wins the popular vote, the other wins more total pledged delegates...

then who should superdelegates support?

[polichick]

1. Obama, of course.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

7. lol

[Colobo]

2. Popular vote > Pledged delegates.

If delegates were the only ones who mattered, then we could eliminate the primaries and just make a delegate contest.

[HeraldSquare212]

6. so how do you count caucuses? just the voters who showed up?

because then the candidate who did better in caucus is penalized. I think it has to be by delegates, because the whole contest has been all about delegates. If it had been about popular vote, candidates might have chosen a different strategy.

[bunnies]

3. beats me.

best scenario is that one candidate has both delegates and popular vote. The scenario you describe makes my stomach turn.

[cosmik debris]

4. How do you count popular vote in caucus states?

You can't. Popular vote can not be a factor.

[dkf]

14. Exactly. Can't compare apples and oranges and a

I swear a bunch of counts are of precinct delegates, not popular vote.

Ergo, that popular vote total is off!

[rpannier]

5. Popular Vote

nt

[LittleBlue]

8. False comparison. Due to the caucus system, fewer will vote.

Can't compare apples and oranges.

[Hill_YesWeWill]

9. popular vote, this is a democratic question, to the core nt

[newmajority]

10. The pledged delegates are based on the popular vote

So why try to claim a difference between the two?

It's the superdelegates which could possibly be used as a tool of subverting the will of the people.

[Clintonista2]

11. That's not true

Take Nevada for example. Clinton won the popular vote by 6%, yet Obama got more delegates in that state then she did.

[bowens43]

12. Our party choses the candidate by deligates.

You can't change the rules in the middle of the game.

[Clintonista2]

13. True, but superdelegates can support whoever they want

So you're not "changing the rules" at all.