A bit of reading here and there indicated that superdelegates are only 15% of the total vote and even though they are not bound by the popular vote they still are in a way since they are mostly elected officials who would feel a lot of heat if they decided against the vote outcome.
But let's just look at the figures. 15% is about 700 out of 4500, which means that a 2250/1550 split (which is pretty much what NH was) is enough to make them irrelevant and even a 55/45 split in the popular vote would only require a small majority of them to follow the popular vote to get the nomination. Clinton may be a powerful politician (and lobbyists would certainly pressure a lot of superdelegates to follow her lead) but unlike the political heist you describe below, HRC's nomination against the popular vote does not look like a politically probable outcome. Jean-Christophe > 2016/02/12 4:59、Louis Proyect <[email protected]> のメール： > > Although I plan to vote for Jill Stein, I sympathize with his supporters > who are repelled by the underhanded tactics of Hillary Clinton and her > mouthpieces. Besides the constant barrage of propaganda from the likes > of Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman, there are institutional barriers to > him becoming the DP candidate for president, especially the > “superdelegates” who are free to vote for Clinton even if she loses a > primary as was the case with New Hampshire. Despite being in a dead heat > with Clinton in Iowa (and on the losing side arguably through fraud > orchestrated by her minions) and having won in New Hampshire, the > delegate count is 394 delegates for Clinton, both super and earned > through the ballot and only 42 for Sanders. > > The superdelegates for Clinton are a kind of rogue’s gallery for the DP > (which I suppose is a kind of redundancy.) Like Andrew Cuomo, the CNN > reporter, and his brother Mario who is the neoliberal dirtbag governor > of NY state. Historically the superdelegates were a reaction to the > hiccup of democracy that emerged in the DP during the 1960s > radicalization. In 1968 the DP convention nominated Hubert Humphrey for > president even though the delegate count for Robert F. Kennedy was 393.5 > and 258 for Eugene McCarthy. The combined total for the two antiwar > (sort of, anyhow) candidates was 651.3 while Humphrey had 561.5. With > Kennedy’s death, the only fair outcome would have been a McCarthy > nomination but LBJ pulled strings to make Humphrey the nominee. > > full: > https://louisproyect.org/2016/02/11/democracy-the-democratic-party-and-superdelegates/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
