I Sick Of The Mediawhores Padding Clinton's Numbers By Including Superdelegates

[KittyWampus]

Obama has had the lead in pledged delegates and I call bullshit on the Mediawhores including superdelegates. It's the only way they could keep spinning her as viable.

There's a large number of superdelegates who haven't gone to either side yet.

They will support whomever has the highest number of pledged delegates.

If Obama maintains his majority of pledged delegates, Clinton's WILL switch.

Factoring in their numbers has been dishonest.

[harun]

1. I'll second that call. They shouldn't include the Super Delegates

until the convention. The media includes them at will to make it look closer. It makes a better story for them.

[KittyWampus]

2. the dishonesty comes from the fact that they are not all declared and many may change

the norm is, they go to the candidate with highest pledged delegate count.

[KittyWampus]

4. kicking this causes it's stuck in my craw.

[TexasObserver]

3. They should stop including them in the totals. They need EARNED delegates as the title.

[IDemo]

5. The trouble is, SD's are being treated as a separate electorate

I would like to believe "they will support whomever has the highest number of pledged delegates", as you and many in the media and the Democratic Party do. But it still rankles that there is a strong push being made to recruit these super D's. Lunch with Chelsea? Cell calls from Bill? The twenty year old SD on Dan Abrams cited both of these, along with a call by Madeline Albright (well now, who wouldn't be swayed by that alone, right?)

While I suspect that most will ultimately follow the voters' wishes, there may be enough who simply want to gain or return favors, or who believe Hillary is the only electable candidate, to throw a kink into the convention.

[KittyWampus]

6. I think the number she has now is all she'll ever get if Obama wins a majority. Thus,the dishonesty

in reporting them at all by the Media.

[IDemo]

8. I agree they should not be reported unless and until they become the deciding factor

It is the active recruitment of them, along with the determination of many to go against the voters of their state, that I cannot agree with:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess13feb13,1,2790739.story

Rodriguez, a party official from Colorado, reserves the right to back Clinton, no matter that Colorado and a majority of other states have so far chosen Obama.

"I do not go with the candidate who is always winning. I go with the candidate I believe in," he wrote recently to a voter who asked how he could side against the Democratic voters in his own state.

Dan Parker, chairman of the state party in Indiana and a super delegate, feels just as strongly -- even though his state will not vote until May.

"I have made my decision, and I am supporting Sen. Clinton, and that is not going to change," Parker said.

[cooolandrew]

7. That's intresting, they keep them going to get their advertising dollars is the deal, it looks