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Showing Original Post only (View all)Should Super Delegates overrule the people (popular vote) ? [View all]
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Should Super Delegates overrule the people (popular vote) ? [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2016
OP
They won't have to. Hillary will have more than enough pledged delegates for the win.
leftofcool
Mar 2016
#1
Which implies that the fix is in, in case Sanders does overtake her after all.
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#6
To take a mere 50% +1 pledged delegates, Sanders would have to get a blowout victory...
MohRokTah
Mar 2016
#14
Still trying to deflect from the tacit admission that you guys are ready to fix the convention.
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#17
Why would anyone think we have the influence to put the fix in on anything?
Rose Siding
Mar 2016
#42
Super delegates did not switch until the nomination had already been secured in 2008.
MohRokTah
Mar 2016
#9
I think that if Sanders should, miraculously, win enough delegates to win outright,
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#13
"An internet conversation with a wise person is worth reading a thousand books."
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2016
#79
I prefer to follow the will of the voters. Also FL and MI were disputed.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2016
#29
Well now wait. The person with the highest popular vote count may not have more delegates
Recursion
Mar 2016
#31