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Soundwave on 02 June 2016
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SpokenTruth said:
Soundwave said:
Clinton should be the nominee, she has more overall votes than Sanders does.

Of course now the Sanders camp is saying the superdelegates should over turn the popular vote and put Sanders above Clinton ... so suddenly superdelegates aren't so bad when they overturn the will of the majority, so long as they're doing it for their candidate of choice.

How much influence on the votes do you think the superdelgate advantage gave Clinton?

The media has touted Clintons superdelegate count since the beginning as proof of her iinevitable nomination.   So at the voting booth, a split person is going to give it to Clinton.

She had 23% of the required delegate count before the race even began because of super delegates.

So get rid of the delegates and superdelegates and leave it up to the people via a vote ... guess what? Clinton wins. 

Sanders is the one who needs superdelegates to overturn the will of the majority. 

Clinton doesn't have a magical hold on delegates/superdelegates either, they all turned on her in favor of Obama in 2008, but Obama actually had far more votes than Bernie does. So superdelegates supporting one candidate early on isn't a be all/end all, Clinton had their support early in 2008 too but lost because Obama started getting more votes. Bernie hasn't done that though. 

Right now Clinton has the 2nd or 3rd highest amount of votes ever given to a candidate in a primary race, only Obama/Clinton in 2008 are higher. She has more votes than Trump or Sanders this year.