When it comes to Superdelegates, Sanders should do a little bit of soul searching ....

[SFnomad]

Sanders most recent argument seems to be that because the SDs committed to Secretary Clinton before the first primary, they're fair game to flip. But something Sanders should really contemplate ...

Sanders was a member of the House of Representatives for 16 years ... a place that Secretary Clinton was never a part of.
Sanders has been a Senator for over 9 years now ... a place that Secretary Clinton was a member for 8 years.

Why are the Senate Superdelegates going for Secretary Clinton 40 to 2?
Why are the House Superdelegates going for Secretary Clinton 172 to 9?

You would think with all those years of experience in the House and Senate ... Sanders would have formed some closer bonds with a few more of these members. Especially since the Sanders campaign likes to frequently point out how large Secretary Clinton's "negatives" are. You would think that someone with such negatives wouldn't be sweeping the House and Senate Superdelegates. Or is the lopsided endorsement count trying to tell us something about Sanders that nobody wants to talk about?

Yes, those numbers are subject to change and the current numbers may be a bit different than what is posted, but such small differences wouldn't make any change to the point I was bringing up .... source for those numbers are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016#Superdelegate_endorsements

[msongs]

1. counting by multiple hundreds is a first or second grade level skill nt

[Doctor Jack]

2. He might have a better chance but he spent quite a bit of time bashing the DNC

He called for the chairwoman to be kicked out, he wanted to run primaries against various members of the democratic party that are also supers. He didn't spend a lot of time trying to make friends with the establishment in the party and now he wants them to rescue him en masse? Seems...unlikely

[onenote]

3. Bernie also might want to recall that he was announcing SDs before the first primary too.

He just wasn't as successful at getting their support. Complaining about that is basically complaining that its unfair that more SDs didn't support Sanders, as if he was entitled to their support just because.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/29/sanders-announces-the-support-of-a-superdelegate-its-his-11th-clinton-has-32-times-as-many/

Bottom line: if you run as an outsider, don't be surprised when the insiders don't rush to support you.

[BootinUp]

4. They don't think he is the right person for the job. We could speculate why all we want

but as you point out, Bernie has not convinced them to support him. Thats the bottom line.

[baldguy]

5. Imagine the phone calls:

"You're a corrupt Third Way DINO corporate fascist, one step short of a NAZI who's responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people & the theft of billions of dollars from working people. You at the very least should be removed from your position of power & put in prison for life.


NOW will you consider supporting me?"

[Skwmom]

6. The SDs are for Clinton because she represents a VERY beneficial system they don't want to end.

They can go to Washington and become members of the 1%.

[SFnomad]

7. I was asking about the ones that are already in DC .. the SDs that are in the House and Senate