Democrat Party Superdelegates - More Equal Than Others?

[Meathead]

It's amazing that you can lose a state by 22% and split the states delegates. But then you'd have to be a Clinton I guess.

He did't split the state delegates from the primary. Bernie got 15 pledged delegates and Hillary got 9 pledged delegates from the contest/vote. PERIOD.

You don't have to be a Democrat to understand:

At the end of the New Hampshire tally Tuesday night, Sanders had amassed enough support from voters to earn 15 delegates, while Clinton grabbed just eight based on the ballot box.

But New Hampshire also has eight superdelegates. Six of them have endorsed Clinton, while two aren't committed to either candidate. That means that Clinton tacked an extra six delegates on to the end.

In Iowa, the superdelegate picture was much the same. Clinton won by the narrowest of margins, but she snagged the support of six extra superdelegates. Sanders, who so far has only a dozen or so superdelegate endorsements in total compared to hundreds for Clinton, got none of those bonus points out of Iowa. (While Clinton has been endorsed by hundreds of super delegates, NBC News is only including in its total delegate count those superdelegates whose home states have already voted in the primary.)


What's a Super Delegate, and Why Did Clinton Win Them?

 

[Care4all]

It's amazing that you can lose a state by 22% and split the states delegates. But then you'd have to be a Clinton I guess.

He did't split the state delegates from the primary. Bernie got 15 pledged delegates and Hillary got 9 pledged delegates from the contest/vote. PERIOD.

You don't have to be a Democrat to understand:

At the end of the New Hampshire tally Tuesday night, Sanders had amassed enough support from voters to earn 15 delegates, while Clinton grabbed just eight based on the ballot box.

But New Hampshire also has eight superdelegates. Six of them have endorsed Clinton, while two aren't committed to either candidate. That means that Clinton tacked an extra six delegates on to the end.

In Iowa, the superdelegate picture was much the same. Clinton won by the narrowest of margins, but she snagged the support of six extra superdelegates. Sanders, who so far has only a dozen or so superdelegate endorsements in total compared to hundreds for Clinton, got none of those bonus points out of Iowa. (While Clinton has been endorsed by hundreds of super delegates, NBC News is only including in its total delegate count those superdelegates whose home states have already voted in the primary.)


What's a Super Delegate, and Why Did Clinton Win Them?

Hillary got super delegate commitments back in 2015, they have nothing to do with the primary pledged votes coming from primary elections, nada, niente, zilch, zip.

And those commitments can sway like palm trees, go back and forth between Hillary and Bernie, until the convention, where the super delegates actually cast a vote.

Their commitments ARE NOT VOTES that can be counted on, until they actually vote in the convention...and none of the unpledged delegates/super delegates are bound by their commitments until then.

 

[Siete]

all of a sudden there seems to be some major issues over the long standing process of electing a POTUS.


Not that it will make any difference to some voters, namely those on the Right, here's the simple functions of delegates and super delegates.


Bustle.