Let's talk to those superdelegates and change their minds!

[Chichiri]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-superdelegates-idUSMTZSAPEC2TAP0RGD

Interviews with 10 of the 505 super delegates supporting Clinton Reuters has reached show that nine of them have been approached by people purporting to back Sanders, and nearly all were displeased by the tone of the outreach.

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Akilah Ensley, a North Carolina superdelegate, said she started hearing more often from Sanders supporters after her name appeared on a Wikipedia list noting her support for Clinton. "Some of them were nice, and some were rather abrasive," she said, adding "attacking my decisions is probably not the best way” to change her mind.

Luis Heredia, an Arizona superdelegate for Clinton, said he has received over 30 phone calls, emails and instant messages from Sanders supporters. “The majority of them are more angry, and the tone is more demanding,” Heredia said.

Lacy Johnson, an Indiana superdelegate backing Clinton, meanwhile, said he had received a mix of messages, including one that he said threatened: “we will make you pay.”

Keep it up, guys!

[cosmicone]

1. Let's swarm their facebook pages with negative comments

Some 15,000 attacks on facebook will make them see the error of their ways!!

[NWCorona]

3. Actually if the supers home state went for Bernie and they are elected officials

I'd imagine they will indeed listen to their constitutes. Isn't that their job?

[Hortensis]

4. Not exactly. But perhaps you should

explain to them how you feel their job should be done and what their duty is. Or not.

Seriously, this is timely. Out of nowhere last night it just occurred to me to wonder how irritated superdelegates might get at Bernie's more righteous supporters who have managed to irritate and offend everyone else so far and what difference it might make.

[Gothmog]

2. Attacking super delegates is a great strategy

This will be fun to watch

[MineralMan]

5. Every Democratic member of Congress or Senator

is a superdelegate. Try dropping by their Facebook pages. You'll see some of the ugly posts made demanding that they switch their vote to Sanders. I looked at my congressional representative's page and found posts calling her and the rest of the congressional reps from Minnesota who support Clinton "traitors." Check the ones in your own state and see what's being posted.

That's the tone. It's ugly and unlikely to change any of their minds, frankly.

[Hortensis]

6. I literally wouldn't bet a nickel that Sanders

will be able to control this either. So far, acting out their frustration and anger right then, no matter how damaging it might be, has been a lot more appealing than winning in future. And of course, superdelegates by very definition are the hated establishment of the hated Democratic Party.

But to your interesting message, MM, I wish I had a Democratic senator to check on, or congressman. Do they know that Bernie himself is a super delegate I wonder?

[MineralMan]

7. I'm lucky. There are several in MN.

One, though, Keith Ellison, has endorsed Bernie Sanders. I doubt he will change his vote, either.

As you say, by definition they're all part of the Democratic establishment. If they weren't, they wouldn't have seats in the House and Senate. They've won their elections in their own states. I know my congressional representative, Betty McCollum, and will be chatting with her on April 16 at our State Senate District convention. She always shows up there and I've been able to buttonhole her and chat for a while each time I've been a delegate.

She's one of the ones whose Facebook page contains vicious attacks from people who think she's a traitor if she doesn't switch her vote. I think I'll ask her at the convention about those communications. I'll be helping her get re-elected in November, as usual. She's an outstanding member of the House of Representatives, but not well-known outside of her district.

[Hortensis]

9. I like your part of the country, MM.

And if you respect Rep. McCollum, I know I would too.

Especially poignant to read as I learned something rather awful just a while ago. I thought our dreadful Congressman Doug Collins, proud member of ALEC, would run unopposed, but it turns out that he does have a challenger. I opened the article all excited, already wondering how I might help (any pub would be better than Collins), only to learn that the challenger is Paul Broun. I'm so proud. We're moving up to someone who has managed to get himself known nationally, outside his district. Turns out Broun is fed up with what's happening in Washington.

[MineralMan]

11. We all live where we live.

In most cases, we really don't choose the place. I sympathise with people who live in places with right wing people in charge. That's why I say I'm lucky. I live here because my mother-in-law lives here and needs help. Me aged parents live in California, but have my siblings there to help.

We can only do what we c as n do, politically. With luck, it will work out OK.

[Hortensis]

12. Oh, MM. Our son followed a girlfriend, whose name I can't remember,

and after and after my husband retired we followed our son. Lol.

I'm afraid that I underestimated the difficulty of being surrounded by people who see God's justice in action in what I see as shocking miscarriages of justice in kangaroo courts, just for instance. There is a lot to like though, as long as you stay away from politics, justice, what children need to learn in school, other similar issues. The people I disagree with are often very moral people by their standards oh nothing, but their moral code is very different from my liberal, open "one man's rights end where another man's nose begins" version.

[ismnotwasm]

8. They better leave Jim McDemitt alone

One of the last of the liberal lions.

[geek tragedy]

10. that sounds nothing like Bernie Sanders supporters nt