Many Hillary supporters, including the corporate media section of her “firewall”, have picked up right where they left off in 2008. Learning nothing from Hillary’s failed attempt to push superdelegates to overturn the Obama’s 2008 national primary win, her people spent all summer culling superdelegate commitments and then claiming they had “won” them somehow.
No.
Superdelegates are unpledged, uncommitted party bigwigs. By rule, they may not pledge or commit to any candidate before the Convention. Anyone saying otherwise is lying.
Anyone saying superdelegates were “won” or “assigned” in a primary or caucus is lying.
Anyone counting superdelegates together with pledged delegates is lying.
Anyone saying 52 delegates were in play in the Iowa caucus voting is lying. 44 were in play.
In Iowa, the actual “state delegate equivalent” vote result ended up: Clinton 699.57 Sanders 697.77. Other published claims of larger margins are false. Now, if anyone can explain how and why that 1.8-state-delegate margin translates to a 23-21 pledged delegate split rather than 22-22, please do.
But one thing’s for sure: there were 44 total pledged delegates contested in the caucuses. Anyone trying to siphon in unpledged superdelegates to ratchet up Hillary’s total should be called out.
Superdelegates may give a candidate their support, but they’re free to rescind that support anytime.
Never in the history of the party have superdelegates overturned the national primary winner.
Not once.
The only candidate in living memory who keeps pushing the idea is Hillary Clinton.
No, Hillary. It won’t happen. And on the off chance you lose the national primaries and then try to overturn the result with superdelegates, all who believe in democracy will fight and defeat you.
You remember the Republicans?
The science-denying, reactionary, evil, disgusting, racist, authoritarian, rich-worshipping Republicans?
Well, they’ve trimmed their superdelegates down to a number so tiny they can’t affect conventions.
That’s right.
The damn Republicans are more democratic than the Democrats when it comes to superdelegates.
That’s bullshit.
Abolish superdelegates.