I don't mean to be unkind, but Elizabeth Warren is straight-up lying. As if Bernie Sanders himself had the power to write the rules himself. And there's no way in Hell he would have advocated for superdelegates to overtake the will of the voters.
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Replying to @VIPSoundCircle @sluggahjells and
He won 22 states and was arguing for the Superdelegates from those states to go along with the will of the voters in those states.
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Replying to @PickBaudisBrain @VIPSoundCircle and
No, he was arguing for MORE than just those delegates to support him, so he would win. That was his victory strategy by the end. As it was the Superdelegates went with national vote winner. If they’d been divied up by state like Electoral College Sanders still would have lost.
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Replying to @HarryTHop @PickBaudisBrain and
Superdelegates didn’t “go with the national vote winner”. They are divided amongst states and declared for Clinton before their respective primaries were even held.
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Replying to @mindremote @HarryTHop and
Superdelegates are not "divided among states" Most of them are superdelegates because of some office related to their state, like being a former governor or congressman, and obviously they all live in a state, but they're not "assigned to states"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mindremote and
A lot of them are NOT superdelegates because of a state-related position but because of a national one - being a DNC official, being voted in as an "at-large" member of the convention by the DNC, or being a former President or VP
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That's another reason the whole "SDs should vote with their state" thing doesn't make sense, because they're not at all distributed evenly "by state" If you just decide Jimmy Carter belongs to Georgia then that's one whole extra vote for Georgia for no clear reason
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