re: #452 BeachDem

June, 2016—

Hillary Clinton is on track to win a majority of the pledged delegates, almost certainly by June 7…the irony is that without the superdelegate system in place, Sanders likely would be toast on June 7…So, even without the superdelegates, Clinton would have won the Democratic nomination fair and square…

Sanders claims it would be “factually incorrect” for the media to declare Clinton the presumptive nominee once she crosses the 2,383 threshold. But he is ignoring the fact that Clinton will also win a majority of the pledged delegates.

washingtonpost.com

Even in the days before the convention, there were Berners who insisted he was going to win because the superdelegates would realize just how “unpopular” Hillary was and run to Bernie’s banner. Remember all the “predictions” that there would be a mass exodus of delegates from the convention floor in protest of Hillary being “crowned”?