What are you talking about? What is he doing other than winning primaries so far?
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Replying to @della_morte_
In 2016 he tried to use the superdelegates to overturn HRC's majority (not mere plurality) in pledged state delegates. She also had won the popular vote. Now he's arguing that is undemocratic & agitating his supporters to DEMAND the nomination if he gets a bare plurality.
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Replying to @chargrille
If he has more pledged delegates he (or anyone else who does) should win, as Clinton did in 2016 or Obama in 2008. It’s just that simple. I don’t care what he said before, superdelegates shouldn’t (and didn’t last time) determine the nominee.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @chargrille
Because she had the majority over 50% of support on popular vote and pledged delegates. If Bernie has 30% of both, that is not a majority that is a plurality and he is demanding that “minority” be recognized as the majority aka a win and not recognizing 70% of the people’s votes.
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Replying to @danapaige23 @chargrille
You honestly think randomly picking one of the other candidates who got even *less* votes and making them the nominee will bring together a coalition that can beat Trump?
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Replying to @della_morte_ @danapaige23
That isn't how an open/contested convention works. If no candidate gets 1,991 votes during the first roll call, then PLEDGED are released & can vote freely, & the SDs can weigh in on the 2nd (and any further) ballot. They take ballots until someone wins, like Lincoln did in 1960.
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Most states also free delegates whose candidates have dropped out to vote for the next most aligned candidate. Technically they can vote for anyone of course. This is the system we have, and it relies on negotiation & compromise. FYI Abraham Lincoln was 2nd in delegates in 1860.
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Replying to @chargrille @danapaige23
Tell me more about the chances of a nominee who emerges from a convention where people tried to overturn the popular vote with superdelegates or convince pledged delegates to change their vote?pic.twitter.com/DyS8enkQLT
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...Mondale really doesn't count, as your own source says - he was the clear winner of the primaries, the superdelegates overwhelmingly took his side, and he still got shellacked in the general election
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
In fact there is no clear historical precedent for what happens when the superdelegates "pick the nominee" - the closest you can say they came to doing that was 1988 and Dukakis objectively had a clear plurality of the popular vote the year (42%, to Jackson's 29%)
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It's worth pointing out superdelegates exist in the first place because the Democrats had one of the worst losses in history in 1972 and wanted to prevent another McGovern
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