Saturday, February 13, 2016

Bernie's Superdelegates problem

Superdelegates are elected politicians and party leaders. They have a say in who becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Clinton has a lock on the vast majority of these people (she has 394, Sanders has just 44).

Here is the head of the Democratic party (who happened to be co-chair of Clinton's 2008 run) explaining how this is fair.


And this handy chart from 538 shows what a candidate needs in order to win the nomination.


2 comments:

  1. And this is the "Democratic" Party?

    Anyway, those Superdelegates that claim to support Hillary now, doesn't necessarily need to vote that way when their time comes, right?

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  2. @Ripituc: The Superdelegates can change their vote. That's what happened in 2008.

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