At Maine convention, Democrats to vote on eliminating superdelegates

[LiberalFighter]

75. It has never happened. Yet people are upset about.

Only because they don't know enough about it. And the ones that stir it up are the media and losers. Probably Republicans too. Yet, they don't say anything about the unbound delegates that Republicans have in their primaries. Neither the various methods they conduct their elections.

The Democratic nomination process is designed to get the best possible outcome. With an attempt to achieve it with the pledged delegates. It is not perfect because the states do not have the same type of primaries or even the hours to hold the elections. The DNC does not get to decide that part. The delegates are primarily apportioned at the congressional and also the state level with at least one state using counties instead of districts because they only have one district. That gives even second place candidates the opportunity to gain a few additional delegates if they are stronger in some parts of the state. But it also can disadvantage a winning candidate when the margin of the win is not enough to split the results to favor them mainly when only an even number of delegates are available.

The method of allotting delegates provides more delegates that is based on Democratic turnout for a Presidential candidate. Meaning that states with comparable population will have more delegates if they are more blue than red. Even states that are all red could have differences just by having a higher turnout on the Democratic side.

One of the creators of this system is Sanders' campaign manager, Tad Devine. He should know how to play the system to their advantage. But even with that knowledge he couldn't accomplish it because all of the numbers worked against them.