Feb 10, 2017 · So while Hillary Clinton leads right now 394-42 over Bernie Sanders in total delegates, Bernie leads Hillary 36-32 in those delegates chosen by the people.




Yep.. The party ELITE lay a huge hand on the results... NOT the voters...
Those superdelegates were all the rock stars and the wounded warriors of the party battles.. It was so blatantly crooked and dishonest that even the Sandinistas in charge of the DNC now felt they had to reform the super delegate issue.... And they made some wimpy changes to make it LESS like a Politburo election in the old Soviet Union....
You had about 3 or 4 shake-ups in upper mgt at the DNC since then and a couple bloody purges... And this deal with Tulsi Gabbard is NAKED RETRIBUTION for her crime of crippling a front-runner on stage at a debate....
Superdelegates have never affected the nomination. In 2008, most of the super delegates were backing Clinton however as Obama won primaries and caucuses, he peeled off most of the super delegates. Sanders voters were just looking for excuses for their 2016 loss.
Before the election the DNC was out noting that Hillary already had wrapped up X amount of Super Delegates so anyone else thinking of running, don't bother. So no one did. The DNC wanted Sanders to run to be able to provide for televised debates so they could say "Hillary understands and Sanders has pulled her left". I backfired big time.
Sanders would have beat Trump. Many of us see the DNC still trying to manipulate things and trending third party again.
The same thing was true in 2008. Clinton had most of the superdelegates locked up. However they can change their minds as demonstrated in 2008. The difference between 2008 and 2016 was that Obama won primaries and caucuses while Sanders did not. Anyone other than Clinton would have beaten Trump including Biden.
Biden probably would have, maybe Sanders.
However, I think you'd be a fool to underestimate Donald Trump. He is one of those guys who wants to win, and he has done so in a far more competitive environment than politics. In politics you can have big backers make you, promote you, sell you. Trump had to sell himself and win in the world of Real Estate and self promotion.
His story is one of going from building low income housing developments in Brooklyn to building massive, global structures adoring his name in big, gold letters. He wisely turned his unique name into a household name.
So. Biden, Sanders, whoever he was against in 2016, I think Trump still has the edge. He would figure it out. More importantly, American voters have. His policies are needed and when he wins against China he can almost literally take credit for saving the West from itself.
I want to see him in for another 4 years. The pinnacle of a lifetime of being a classic go forward American, Like others before him, he will be in the history books at a grand scale rarely seen.