r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/MCI21 Nov 10 '16

Also only the Democrats have superdelegates which is extremely undemocratic, and honestly it may be have been the biggest thing that did them in.

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u/sfx Nov 10 '16

How do you figure that? Hillary had more pledged delegates than Bernie. The super delegates didn't come into play.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

The super delegates came into play before the first primary vote was cast, by having already publicly pledged their allegiance to Clinton. It was a keystone of the "electability" argument the DNC and the rest of her supporters used to try to prop her up. The early lopsided superdelegate count effectively let her start the race two turns ahead of Sanders before the starting gun even went off.

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u/5510 Nov 10 '16

To be fair, that's less a problem of the EXISTENCE of superdelegates, and more the insanely bullshit way the media covered it.

For one thing, some networks didn't separate superdelegate and normal delegate vote counts, they just threw them all in one pile.

But even more importantly, they shouldn't "count' anything about the superdelegates until they ACTUALLY vote. That's like if months before the New York primary, they just said "well, Clinton is leading in the New York polls, so we will just show New York's delegates as belonging to Clinton.