Super super super
Ah, the Superdelegates. Nate Silver had a (poorly titled) piece on Friday about this. I don't know if it was linked in GD-P but I'm sure it was given the title.
Superdelegates Might Not Save Hillary Clinton: But they could tip the balance to her in a close race.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/superdelegates-might-not-save-hillary-clinton/
Back to bad news for Sanders supporters: Clinton begins with a far larger superdelegate lead over Sanders than she ever had over Obama. It’s easy to imagine why they might resist switching, furthermore. Unlike Obama, who was perhaps roughly as “electable” as Clinton, Sanders is a 74-year-old self-described socialist. Unlike Obama, who had the chance to become the first black president, Sanders is another old white guy (although he would be the first Jewish president). Sanders wasn’t even officially a Democrat until last year. I’m not saying these are necessarily great arguments, but they’re the sorts of arguments that Clinton-supporting superdelegates will make to themselves and one another, in part because the superdelegate system was created precisely to help nominate candidates considered more electable by party leaders.
But how close would the outcome have to be for superdelegates to tip the nomination to Clinton? You can find that calculation in the table below.
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Superdelegates are mathematically relevant when a candidate has 41.2 percent to 58.8 percent of elected delegates. Below that range, a candidate couldn’t win a first-ballot majority even with the votes of every superdelegate; above that range, the superdelegates’ help wouldn’t be necessary to clinch the nomination.
We all know that Clinton will have a much larger percent of the elected delegates than 50%. Sanders can not possibly win this race.
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the Democratic Party, of course. This was explained to us just the other day. After the being used comes the being cleansed. They'll elect Bernie, then grab control and purge the party of our kind. Our day is over.
You'd think they'd just go form their own party and they can be as negative and hostile as they want there. But it's no fun to be negative and hostile unless you're directing it at somebody. 
