If nothing else, this campaign season is exposing our amazingly undemocratic election system...

[marmar]

Last edited Tue Mar 29, 2016, 09:17 AM - Edit history (1)

......including the 'Superdelegate' farce.


via truthdig:



Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in Washington’s caucuses Saturday, yet state Rep. Rick Larsen, a superdelegate, is ready to vote for her anyway. Sanders backers flooded Larsen’s Facebook account, demanding that he honor the will of his constituents.

“Superdelegates,” explained The Guardian’s Trevor Timm in February, are roughly 700 members of Congress, governors, mayors and other party elites “who aren’t elected by anyone during the primary process and are free to vote any way they want at the (nominating) convention.”

Washington voters overwhelmingly favored Sanders over Clinton, 72 percent to 27 percent, in Saturday’s Democratic caucus. The Vermont senator carried every county in the state—and voters in Whatcom County, where Larsen keeps an office, chose Sanders by 81 percent.

Roughly one day after the results came in, the following graphic appeared on the Facebook walls of social media users across the state:



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A petition urging other Washington state Democratic superdelegates to support the candidate chosen by the electorate garnered 25,800 signatures by mid-Monday. Those officials, all of whom publicly backed Hillary Clinton, include Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and U.S. Reps. Jim McDermott, Suzan DelBene, Adam Smith, Denny Heck and Derek Kilmer. ...............(more)

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/wash_voters_descend_on_superdelegate_who_supports_clinton_20160328

[floriduck]

1. And Hillary supporters think

Bernie's people are being foolish. This guy got elected and he's still digging his heels in. His political future looks tenable at best going forward. Using their logic, if Bernie loses, it will be Larson's fault.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Even without the superdelegates, Hillary is leading Bernie 1234 to 975.

That's still quite a gap for Bernie to breach.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

[marmar]

3. And? So he shouldn't follow the will of his constituents because of a Real Clear Politics update?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Bernie should do what he thinks is best. I never suggested otherwise.

I was just being realistic. Hillary is still leading by over 250 delegates without the superdelegates. That's a lot of ground to cover.