Republicans Are Acting Like Democrats. Democrats Are Acting Like Republicans.

[Pryderi]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/republicans-are-acting-like-democrats-democrats-are-acting-like-republicans/

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is the only candidate with any endorsements from current governors or U.S. senators and representatives. And she has a boatload of them: 88 representatives, 27 senators and two governors have endorsed Clinton, giving her 243 endorsement points, the highest figure ever at this stage of the race for a Democrat.

Republicans, however, haven’t fallen in line behind anyone. Jeb Bush is the nominal endorsement front-runner, but his 18 endorsement points are the lowest total for any leader at this point in the campaign since Tsongas in 1992. Only two Republican governors and three Republican senators have endorsed any candidate at all.

[merrily]

1. 538 is showing its bias.

It was Democrats, not Republicans, who created the concept of super delegates after the McGovern loss and implemented it about 35 years ago. Republicans did not jump on that Democratic invention for many years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate

It was Democrats who decided, after Carter lost to Reagan, that primaries were a bad thing and began striving to avoid them.

It was Democrats, not Republicans, who began announcing who their 2016 nominee would be before the 2012 Presidential election.