Rep. David Bowen, a Wisconsin super delegate, sides with Sanders. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;50105424]How is that a good thing? At all?[/QUOTE] Imagine if a business put the hiring of its new CEO up to a vote of all employees

[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;50105424]How is that a good thing? At all?[/QUOTE] How he looks like or what I said about the superdelagtes?

[QUOTE=_Axel;50104926]What's the purpose of super delegates? Looks to me like it's a system that ensures the nomination goes to the party favorite while maintaining a facade of democracy.[/QUOTE] It's a double edge sword. It prevents people like Donald Trump from running for president.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;50108074]It's a double edge sword. It prevents people like Donald Trump from running for president.[/QUOTE] It also causes people to become angry with the party enough to the point that they support radical outsiders. I mean the Republican strategy was just to run loads of nominees that would steal votes from one another while Jeb slowly sailed up past them to win by plurality. But now that trumps gone fucked it all up who knows whats gonna happen

[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;50105424]How is that a good thing? At all?[/QUOTE] Well the answer to your question is in the post you quoted.

A little off topic, I've been watching house of cards all day and that show is too unrealistic, nobody's complaining about inequality using mixed fractions and decimals, or threatening to build walls, everybody's just sort of normal politicians Anyway the DNC needs to make it a rule that supers can't announce anything until the convention, at least it would have prevented all the painfully annoying numbers like when Sanders wins a state by 15% and comes out tied with delegates because the news is to lazy to differentiate between his 15 and Hillary's 10+5

[QUOTE=Sableye;50109817]A little off topic, I've been watching house of cards all day and that show is too unrealistic, nobody's complaining about inequality using mixed fractions and decimals, or threatening to build walls, everybody's just sort of normal politicians Anyway the DNC needs to make it a rule that supers can't announce anything until the convention, at least it would have prevented all the painfully annoying numbers like when Sanders wins a state by 15% and comes out tied with delegates because the news is to lazy to differentiate between his 15 and Hillary's 10+5[/QUOTE] That would defeat the point of superdelegates though. They are expected to support whichever candidate is in the lead by the time of the convention, so that aspect about them is useless anyways. The only other point of superdelegates is to act as a 'guide' for voters, as candidates which superdelegates support will appear to be legitimate candidates in the eyes of voters, as opposed to every other candidate.

[QUOTE=sb27;50109887]That would defeat the point of superdelegates though. They are expected to support whichever candidate is in the lead by the time of the convention, so that aspect about them is useless anyways. The only other point of superdelegates is to act as a 'guide' for voters, as candidates which superdelegates support will appear to be legitimate candidates in the eyes of voters, as opposed to every other candidate.[/QUOTE] The whole point is for party leaders to prevent a Trump from winning the nomination if it came to a close convention. Maybe waiting to the convention is too late, but they had all announced their choice as early as December, months before a single ballot was cast. I'm just saying they shouldnt be even talking to the press until after the race has started not 3-5 months in advance