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Posted on 02/10/2016 10:15:33 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Though Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide over Hillary Clinton, he will likely receive fewer delegates than she will.
Sanders won 60 percent of the vote, but thanks to the Democratic Party's nominating system, he leaves the Granite State with at least 13 delegates while she leaves with at least 15 delegates.
New Hampshire has 24 "pledged" delegates, which are allotted based on the popular vote. Sanders has 13, and Clinton has 9, with 2 currently allotted to neither.
But under Democratic National Committee rules, New Hampshire also has 8 "superdelegates," party officials who are free to commit to whomever they like, regardless of how their state votes. Their votes count the same as delegates won through the primary.
New Hampshire has 8 superdelegates, 6 of which are committed to Hillary Clinton, giving her a total of 15 delegates from New Hampshire as of Wednesday at 9 a.m.
The state's 2 remaining superdelegates remain uncommitted.
In the overall delegate count, Clinton holds a commanding lead after a razor-thin victory in Iowa and a shellacking in New Hampshire. Clinton has 394 delegates, both super and electorally assigned, to only 42 for Sanders.
What a Twist!
It’s a done deal.
That’s not a quirk - it’s a feature.
I think the word they are looking for is "Fix".
How is that fair? Bernie’s people are not gonna like this?
I remember that in the 2008 contest there was talk of Hillary cashing in her “super delegates” to defeat Obama. Either the “supers” didn’t commit to her back then, or she was afraid to use them for fear of being accused of denying the victory to a black guy.
i read a bit ago a article it said she had all the super delegates wrapped up. the fix is in.
This will get interesting.
There are forces in the DNC that want Hillary, not Bernie and will make it happen at all costs.
From what I remember of 2008, Hillary had the ability to challenge Obama’s dlegate amounts and the DNC rules committee shot her down.
It’s delegate socialism. Results are tossed out and all candidates treated equally.
With some more equal than others...
and on a semi-related situation, the FBI has yet to chime in on candidate cankles
Outrageous!
It’s going to be close. Hillary is trying to pull the southern states that went to the kenyan eight years ago. But she is going to lose the most liberal states to Sanders that Obama won. A combination of the south and big states is a real thin path to the nom for the Hildabeast. She could lose, IMO.
Yeah, Hillary’s going to have to BEG for votes to beat the Republican. A large amount of millenials will either split the party to a third party or simply walk away.
This is all good. We want her to be nominated by the centralized leadership. The turnout for her in November will suffer.
Precisely. It's the system the Clintons put in in anticipation of Hillary running. It broke down in 2008 when the super-delagates who were supposed to be Hillary's ace in the hole were stampeded by PC and bolted to Obama. Sanders probably cannot work that same trick to separate the SDs from Hillary this time.
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