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After Sanders' Big Win in New Hampshire, Establishment Figures Want to Scare You with Superdelegates
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Posted on 02/11/2016 2:56:43 AM PST by TigerClaws

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To: dead

It’s like he doesn’t even know the Clintons

If the Clinton’s were all that formidable, why didn’t she win in 2008...instead of being humiliated by an unknown neophyte who had no track record to run on...


21 posted on 02/11/2016 5:14:33 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Russ

George McGovern, the last democrat I voted for.


22 posted on 02/11/2016 5:27:54 AM PST by refermech
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To: TigerClaws
4. He became the first non-Christian candidate to win a state primary in U.S. history.

Nonsense. Barry Hussein, the sodomite moslem, won several state primary elections.

23 posted on 02/11/2016 5:29:00 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Ha. You’d think the 1 a m Sunday night debates would have clued him in.

Bernie was allowed to switch to the Dem party to do the following:

1. Make Hillary look moderate

2. Make Hillary look young

They are shocked at the Bernie wins. It demonstrates how terrible a candidate she is.

It’s look like 1968 we’re they to use super delegate to win.

But they won’t need to. The south will kill off Bernie.


24 posted on 02/11/2016 5:32:19 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Also I think that GOP superdelegates are bound by the results of their states’ primaries, where the Democrats’ are just free to back whomever their establishment powers decide is right.


25 posted on 02/11/2016 5:36:06 AM PST by babble-on
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To: dp0622

A Hillary-Bernie ticket in November — it looks more likely every day.


26 posted on 02/11/2016 5:48:05 AM PST by Lurch Addams
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To: TigerClaws

The Democratic Party is perhaps the LEAST democratic institution in North America.


27 posted on 02/11/2016 6:02:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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and the Superdelegates will fall in line. Just as they have in every single election since the system was implemented. (Including in 2008, when this same concern was raised would Superdelegates cost Obama the nomination?)

Even the Democratic power structure isn't so short-sighted that it would cut off its nose to spite its face.

The only problem I see with this assessment is that supposedly Hillary had these super delegates sign contracts. If they change their minds does it not leave them open to being sued by the Clintons?

The democrats may just have a huge mess on their hands.

28 posted on 02/11/2016 7:02:27 AM PST by Lady Heron
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The Dems have more than 15% superdelegates. GOPe has just under 7%. But I agree. It could be used against Trump or Cruz to bring in some Uniparty 'unifier' at the convention.

Then the republicans will be in a hotter mess than even the dems by the convention. Republicans are pissed off enough to vote Trump because of great comebacks and Cruz because of conservatism while rinos are scrambling for 10% of the vote.

This is not a year to make the base madder.

29 posted on 02/11/2016 7:09:38 AM PST by Lady Heron
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Superdelegates mostly become so by virtue of their having been elected to political office. They are SDs automatically. What would be the incentive for them to ‘contract’ with Hillary? Any promise of a reward to them would be illegal on the face of it.


30 posted on 02/11/2016 7:12:02 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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