Hillary Clinton LEADING Bernie Sanders 15-13 in New Hampshire Delegates (90% reporting)

Huffington Post ^ | 2/10/16

[drewh]

she's gonna steal it from Bernie with the super delegates!

Candidate

Votes

%

Delegates

Sanders ✓

138,414

60.0

13 •••••••••••••

Clinton

88,623

38.4

15 •••••••••••••••

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

28 of 32 delegates accounted for in New Hampshire.

HuffPost counts unpledged delegates who have publicly stated their intent to vote for a candidate. More info »

[Ray76]

Good times!

[drewh]

fight the fraud Bernie!! (even though the whole Dim primary is a fraud with the superdelegate system)

[TigersEye]

heh heh

People are wondering how she does it. That reminds me of some Michael Westen dialogue on the show Burn Notice.

paraphrased "Bribery can be very effective. Threats will work too. Nothing works as well as both."

[Persephone Kore]

(I posted this on another thread, but it might be of interest here too.)

The Democrats have a corrupt system for picking delegates. If I have it right, here's how it works in New Hampshire:

There are 32 delegates: 8 are chosen statewide in the primary, 8 are chosen in Congressional District 1 in the primary, 8 are chosen in Congressional District 2 in the primary, and 8 are for political insiders (they call them "superdelegates", but I don't have to call them that).

Even the delegates chosen in the primary aren't allocated in proportion to the vote, but according to arbitrary cutoffs. As a result:

• If Sanders gets less than 56.3% of the vote (in the state or either congressional district), the 8 relevant delegates are split 4-4 between him and Clinton. 
• If Sanders gets 56.3% or more, but less than 68.8%, he gets 5 delegates of the relevant 8 delegates, and Clinton gets 3 delegates. 

It doesn't look like Sanders is getting more than 68.8% anywhere, so each of the three groups of 8 will be either 4-4 or 5-3. As a result, the Sanders advantage among the 24 "elected" delegates will be somewhere between 15-9 and 12-12.

There are still the 8 political-insider delegates ("superdelegates"). These aren't formally committed to any candidate. You can expect all or most of these 8 to go for Hillary unless the party hierarchy pulls its support for her. I think 6 of the 8 have already announced that they are for her.

If all 8 of the insiders vote for Hillary, that brings the range to somewhere between 15 Sanders - 17 Clinton at the low end to 12 Sanders - 20 Clinton at the high end. (If not all the insiders vote for Clinton, it may not be quite so extreme.)

So much for democracy—Sanders is getting around 60% of the vote, but he'll probably get a minority of the 32 New Hampshire delegates.

This is guaranteed to inflame the Sanders supporters and fuel divisiveness among the Democrats.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Next we'll hear Kasich got the majority of Trump's delegates.

[Just mythoughts]

Lol

[BradyLS]

Those are some super DUPER delagates!

[BradyLS]

“Dellow Felegates...”

[Prole]

Wait, Sanders won the majority yet somehow this evil witch is going to get them anyway?

What a sick, sick group of people.

[dsrtsage]

This is way too funny to be true

[barmag25]

I thought NH only had 23 delegates?

[Ray76]

Hill v Bern
BAD BLOOD

Cage Match ★ Showdown

[Wilhelm Tell]

I can’t help but laugh because the Bernie voters are getting a good taste of socialism with this rigged voting. The Party has determined that Hillary is the winner 100% and all good comrades must gratefuly accept the wise choice the Party has made.

[wiggen]

This won’t go well with the base at all. They’re being told get out and vote but it doesn’t matter. I’m dying to have Wasserman-Schultz be asked about this in some interview. Theres no answer that won’t make the voters even more enraged. The madder they are the less likely they are to vote for Hillary in the general.

[KarlInOhio]

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this -- who will count the votes, and how. - Joseph Stalin, the intellectual father of the modern Democrat Party

How do you like those socialist apples, Bernie?

[kiryandil]

If this stands, we'll be able to whip it out and whizz in the face of any Democrat we meet.

Zieg Heil, Commissar!!!

[Theoria]

The SuperDelegate system they have is to prevent people like Bernie from a getting a chance. I don't think it will be a 1968 revisit, but probably a digital inferno. It will be interesting, it's also not like the GOP convention will be pretty as well.

[SoFloFreeper]

i would imagine the “super” delegates are establishment toadies who suck at the teat of Hitlery and Hussein. so they bow their knees to them by giving them their vote.

[Lazamataz]

Point of order: Kommissar is the German version, so you'd want it to match the rest of the German sentence. Commissar is for the Soviet version of same.

[StAnDeliver]

"I can't help but laugh because the Bernie voters are getting a good taste of socialism with this rigged voting."

Pluperfect.