2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Superdelegates do not vote until July 25th & do NOT count till then. Don't believe me? No prob... [View all]JimDandy
(7,318 posts)And that applies no matter which candidate they came out in support of.
At the start of her campaign, about 200 of Clinton's supers had publicly endorsed her, before anyone voted (can't find, right now, the article that stated that figure). The remaining supers in the Clinton totals are known to be in her column only because Clinton's campaign announced that they are (those supers themselves, apparently, have not publicly stated they support her). And she, like the politician she is, of course publicized the number of supers she said supported her, in order to influence the election process.
As the primary went along, and the constituents of hundreds of those super delegates actually voted, those supposedly democratic party insiders anti-democratically, explicitly and complicitly overruled their constituents votes, state by state.
Awesome populist message.
Never prouder of a primary vote than my vote against Clinton and her fraudulent, anti-democratic, baggage-laden, sordid campaign.