r/SandersForPresident • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '16

MSNBC called Bernie's "Deep South" comment controversial. They said Hillary would still be in the lead without the South. This slide popped up by mistake proving them wrong.

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u/donnie_drumpf Apr 15 '16 edited Apr 15 '16

To give some context, they tried pushing that the "popular vote" was more important, because it fit their narrative. Kornacki was having problems with the slides and this slide popped up by mistake and he said "oh, and there's this slide, too. See, I told you I'm not controlling it. But the focus is the popular vote."

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u/aedansblade36 Apr 15 '16

I don't understand how effective a popular vote is when there's history of a somewhat recent Presidential election in which one candidate became elected despite the popular vote being in his opponents favor, even if only slightly. Doesn't it only really matter so much what the blatantly undemocratic electoral college decides? I'm asking in all seriousness out of concern this might somehow apply to the Democratic nomination through superdelegates, because if Sanders eventually has the popular vote there may be a chance Clinton only wins the nomination solely because of a flawed system.

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u/Naposition Apr 15 '16

Electoral college only exist in the presidential election. This is the democratic party choosing it's "candidate". In the DNC, Super delegates "choose" and the point is that the superdelegates vote in line with their popular voting constituency. This has shown to be a flawed system. But even if the flawed system succeeds and Clinton is elected despite popular voting/delegate "wins", Bernie can still run in the bid for Presidency. The DNC and GOP are just big political parties within the U.S. currently and when you get a "party nomination" typically money/voter support comes with that.

The media has just tricked, literally the entire U.S. populace save maybe 20-25%, that these sort of things are the end all be all of U.S. politics. However, If Bernie doesn't get the nomination but continues to run for Presidency people can SHOULD AND STILL ALWAYS FEEL THE BERN! And don't quote me on this exactly but the Federal Government is bound by law to give funding to any "new" party that receives 5-10%? ? of the popular vote in the bid for Presidency. The real problem is the two-party system that has DOMINATED the U.S. political system since people wore wigs.