Bernie Sanders
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Minnesota, Vermont, Colorado, New Hampshire and Oklahoma resoundingly voted for Bernie on Super Tuesday!
Let's see how "democratic" the Democratic Party really is. Will these superdelegates either relinquish their superdelegate votes and let the people decide? Or will they switch to vote for the candidate their constituents want?
This is the test of the century for the Democratic Party.
Will the superdelegates from states that solidly vote vor Bernie switch to support Bernie in this campaign and at the Democratic convention?
After all, we Bernie supporters are being told that we should vote for Hillary if she wins the primaries?
Democratic for me is democratic for the superdelegates isn't it? Doesn't the majority wins and you vote for that candidate work for all Democrats equally?
Let's see......
How democratic is the Democratic Party?
Here they are.
Vermont: Bernie won in Vermont by something 86.1% of the vote. Surely that should move these superdelegates to support Bernie.
Richard Cassidy
James C. Condos
HOWARD DEAN --Let's see how democratic the founder of Democracy for America is.
Dottie Deans
Bill Gosh
Tim Jerman
Patrick Leahy
Peter Shumlin
Peter Welch
Minnesota: Sanders won 61.6% of the vote.
Mark Dayton
Al Franken
Marge Hoffa
Amy Klobuchar
Ken Martin
Betty McCollum
Walter Mondale
Javier Morillo-Alicea
Rick Nolan
Collin Peterson
R. T. Rybak
Nancy Schumacher
Lori Sellner
Rick Stafford
Tim Walz
Colorado: Sanders won 59% of the vote.
Michael Bennet
Diana DeGette
Anthony Graves
John Hickenlooper
Blanca O'Leary
Lisa Padilla
Rick Palacio
Ed Perlmutter
Jared Polis
Mannie Rodriguez
Roy Romer
Beverly Ryken
New Hampshire: Sanders won 60.4% of the vote.
Raymond Buckley
Martha Fuller Clark
Joanne Dowdell
Maggie Hassan
Ann Kuster
Billy Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
Kathy Sullivan
Oklahoma: Sanders won 51.9% of the vote to Clinton only 41.5%
Jim Frasier
Mark Hammons
Connie Johnson (already for Sanders)
Betty McElderry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2016
https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#q=democratic+primary+results+vermont&eob=m.07_f2/D/2/short/m.07_f2/
https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#q=democratic+primary+results+Minnesota&eob=m.04ykg/D/2/short/m.04ykg/
https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#q=democratic+primary+results+Colorado&eob=m.01n4w/D/2/short/m.01n4w/
https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#q=democratic+primary+results+New+hampshire
https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#q=democratic+primary+results+Oklahoma&eob=m.05mph/D/2/short/m.05mph/
As I post this, I am reminded of the margins by which Sanders won in states with contested Democratic contests.
Feel the Bern, and let's contact these superdelegates and ask them whether they agree with the fundamental democratic value of one person, one vote or whether they think they deserve to vote at the convention many times more than ordinary voters.
Why do we have superdelegates anyway?
I'll tell you why. To keep the status quo safe and happy.
dchill
(38,497 posts)The elected delegates are the real "super" delegates. We the People are super. One person, one vote.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)fairly familiar with the history, I just wasn't politically aware back then. That a party that calls itself the Democratic Party in a democracy can justify something so un-democratic just blows my mind.
I'll definitely be contacting the ones in my state (California.)
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Plus, Bernie tied with Hillary in both Iowa and Nevada.
Hillary has blown through her stack of cash already.
And Bernie is raising more money every single day than Hillary is.
Bernie has turned the corner, and is poised to take over the lead by the middle of the month, around St. Paddy's Day, earlier than Obama did in 2008.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Feel the Bern!