Reply #7: Pledged delegates are usually activist supporters of their candidate and one would surmise not [View All]

[Garbo 2004]

easily won over to the other candidate, at least not on the first ballot.

I suspect the Clinton campaign has raised this "pledged delegates are not really committed" thing since they may be having problems on the "superdelegate" front. There continues to be a trickle of SD's to Obama while others are not willing to publically commit one way or the other. And also as a very few SD's who already endorsed Clinton have suggested that they might, under certain circumstances, switch their vote.

It's also a bit bizarre for the Clinton campaign to talk about poaching pledged delegates, who are sent to the convention to represent the voters' will, and then also talk about "disencfranchisement" and how the opposition wants to "take your vote from you."

Politics. ugh.