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2016 Postmortem

Hortensis

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9. Exactly. The one who has the popular vote is

Reply to still_one (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 01:16 PM

Jun 2016

almost always the one with the most pledged delegates. In 2016 Hillary Clinton has both and Sanders has neither.

Superdelegates are irrelevant to me in this case, except for what their rejection of Bernie says about their evaluations of him.

But Octafish, let me make clear. I am farther left than Hillary and wanted a more leftward candidate. After watching Bernie all these months, however, I firmly believe that Bernie is NOT the right stuff for president, not by temperament, intellect, judgement, or ethics. I would vote for him if he were my only choice, of course, but that is all.

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Suppose Bernie had Hillary's superdelegates, would you support him in the GE? [View all] Octafish Jun 2016 OP

What about Fuck Trump is hard to understand? Adrahil Jun 2016 #1

I'll vote for the nominee of the Democratic Party (NT) Algernon Moncrieff Jun 2016 #2

If Sanders had won the nomination lapucelle Jun 2016 #3

Well, because BS is more "electable", even though he wasn't electable enough to win the primary n/t SFnomad Jun 2016 #5

I would support the candidate who won the most pledged delegates, and historically the candidate who still_one Jun 2016 #4

Exactly. The one who has the popular vote is Hortensis Jun 2016 #9

Do you mean if he won, or if he flipped them? CrowCityDem Jun 2016 #6

Since Super Delegates would only support the pledged delegate winner Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #7

if the roles were reversed and sanders had the beachbum bob Jun 2016 #8

Every Clinton supporter I've seen on this site has MineralMan Jun 2016 #10

I have said from the beginning, I will vote for the Democratic nominee. Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #11

I will support the Democratic nominee. Period. Lil Missy Jun 2016 #12

If he had won the most pledged delegates, I would gladly vote for him... all american girl Jun 2016 #13

Looks like a good place for my first post here LongtimeAZDem Jun 2016 #14

I would support the candidate who led in earned delegates/popular vote. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #15

If grasshoppers had machine guns, birds wouldn't fuck with em MyNameGoesHere Jun 2016 #16