Democratic Primaries

DanTex

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7. Well, it depends on who those delegates shift to.

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 02:59 PM

Feb 2020

Like I said, if they shift to the person who actually got the most votes, and who leads every other candidate in head-to-head polling, and who has the highest favorability ratings among Dems, and who the most Dems say they would be happy with as the nominee, then yes.

If they decide to pick someone with less votes, lower approval, who would lose in a head-to-head matchup, and who less Democrats would be satisfied with as nominee, it's pretty hard to argue that those delegates are respecting the voters. Because it obviously isn't.

And that would be a problem for unifying the party to defeat Trump

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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last time and prior times superdelegate votes counted on first vote. [View all] boston bean Feb 2020 OP

Bernie and other pro-democracy people wanted no superdelegates at all. DanTex Feb 2020 #1

The democratic will is those with a majority of delegates. Including superdelegates. boston bean Feb 2020 #2

The candidate with the most votes/delegates obviously represents the democratic will. DanTex Feb 2020 #3

Its not just the most votes, its the majority of the votes.. which may not happen this year. honest.abe Feb 2020 #12

Yes, those are the rules. If there's no majority, the delegates including supers decide. DanTex Feb 2020 #13

Depends on how one interprets the "will of the people". honest.abe Feb 2020 #15

Why bother having a primary jimfields33 Feb 2020 #4

Why bother having a convention if you're just going to ignore the rules anyway? TwilightZone Feb 2020 #6

It's seems like all but one is doing extremely poor jimfields33 Feb 2020 #8

Yes. Let's build coalitions. If he doesn't have 50+ boston bean Feb 2020 #9

"they can choose someone with less votes " TwilightZone Feb 2020 #5

Well, it depends on who those delegates shift to. DanTex Feb 2020 #7

just a book or two would really help you out. LanternWaste Feb 2020 #10

LOL. DanTex Feb 2020 #11

The issue is with Warren and some here *falsely* claiming he wanted superdelegates before JudyM Feb 2020 #14

Since Bernie Sanders is only a Democrat when he must be one, MineralMan Feb 2020 #16