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He is creating leverage basically. My guess is the DNC will give him much more say at the convention than he normally would get in order to get him to rally behind Clinton.
Neither he nor his supporters are owed anything. He's losing the nomination and yet he thinks he's entitled to have his radical ideas included in Hillary's platform? Since when does the losing party get to have a say in what the winner should or shouldn't include in their platform? If he wanted his ideas included in any platform then he should have run as an independent instead of a democrat.
Sanders can win... he needs a good number of pledge delegates and get some of the superdelegates... Saying anything else would be a Hillary-fanatic... she cannot get to the number without the superdelegates... MAYBE SHE SHOULD DROP OUT...
Sanders can win... he needs a good number of pledge delegates and get some of the superdelegates... Saying anything else would be a Hillary-fanatic... she cannot get to the number without the superdelegates... MAYBE SHE SHOULD DROP OUT...
Not true.
If you got rid of the superdelegates altogether, then the number of delegates at the convention would drop to 4051. The new number to win the nomination, a majority of delegates, would be 2026. Hillary has 1771 delegates with no superdelegates. She would only need 225 of the remaining non-super delegates to reach that number. Bernie would need 527 of the remaining 781 delegates in order to win Since the primaries are proportional, the chances of Bernie winning 67.5 % of all the remaining delegates is virtually nil.
The superdelegates haven't changed the outcome of this race. They simply cement what the majority of Democrats want.
Since when does the losing party get to have a say in what the winner should or shouldn't include in their platform? .
Since he has the ability to run a third party candidacy and assure Clinton's's loss in November and this gives him the right to help define the party platform.
Both she and the DNC know this and would do well to kiss his ass.
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There is no means testing of social security and there will BE no means testing for social security.
Cutting Social Security is the kiss of death to any politician who tries it.
Neither he nor his supporters are owed anything. He's losing the nomination and yet he thinks he's entitled to have his radical ideas included in Hillary's platform? Since when does the losing party get to have a say in what the winner should or shouldn't include in their platform? If he wanted his ideas included in any platform then he should have run as an independent instead of a democrat.
No, they aren't owed anything. But the reality is they aren't natural Democratic party supporters. If she can't win a sizable chunk of them over then she loses the election. That's not a gamble worth taking imo. He ran as a Democrat because no one pays attention to independents.
If you got rid of the superdelegates altogether, then the number of delegates at the convention would drop to 4051. The new number to win the nomination, a majority of delegates, would be 2026. Hillary has 1771 delegates with no superdelegates. She would only need 225 of the remaining non-super delegates to reach that number. Bernie would need 527 of the remaining 781 delegates in order to win Since the primaries are proportional, the chances of Bernie winning 67.5 % of all the remaining delegates is virtually nil.
The superdelegates haven't changed the outcome of this race. They simply cement what the majority of Democrats want.
More like they mold what the majority of Democrats want, with the option to go against it if they see fit.
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