superdelegates

[stellanoir]

A pulitzer prize winning female columnist for the WSJ named Dorothy Rabinawitz (sp?) just filled in for Daniel Shore for the weekly review segment of Weekend Edition on NPR and she said something I hadn't heard before.

She said that with how close the tally of pledged delegates is at this point, that the nomination will absolutely hinge on the superdelegates and what happens in Florida and Michigan, regardless of who wins the remaining primaries.

Though much has been said about the superdelegates and Florida and Michigan, I can't believe that the remaining states will not impact who wins as well.

Has anyone heard or read or figured this to be true elsewhere?

[Birthmark]

1. Welcome to the return of the smoke-filled room. nt

[TexasObserver]

2. It's the current meme designed to make the superdelegates role palatable

It's not true. It's the Clinton campaign's last prayer, though.

If Obama storms through the balance of the primaries, it's over.

Anyone who thinks superdelegates are going to run out there and reverse what the rank and file Democrats have voted nationwide has inhaled too many toxic fumes, perhaps the kind brought on by consuming too many of Hill's favorite peppers daily.

Superdelegates are political survivors, and they are not jumping on this grenade to save Hillary.

[tekisui]

3. FL and MI really would have no effect. They were penealized.

When they were stripped of their delegates, those delegates were subtracted from the total count to give us 4051, or 2025 to win. Re-seating the FL and MI delegates would change the number needed to win, and would still have them very close.

They will most likely split the delegates from FL and MI proportionally to the latest delegate count.