• krolden
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    2 years ago

    please cite a poll

    Is the popular vote enough for you? He won it in multiple states and then the superdelegates decided to pick Hillary instead. How is that democracy?

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      2 years ago

      No, Hillary won the majority of both the pledged delegates (selected by party rank-and-file) and plain vote tally. Yes she had already secured the backing of the majority of unpledged delegates (aka superdelegates), but in the end that made no difference. Those unpledged delegates would have been very reluctant to essentially override the will of their voters, even if they felt like it was political suicide in the general election. Also, in the Democratic primary candidates don’t “win” states. Delegates are assigned through proportional representation.