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valerief

(53,235 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:35 PM Feb 2016

What if the super delegates...

What if the super delegates refuse to vote? What if they go on strike?

What if the super delegates go on a trip and all die in a bus/train/plane accident? Are there vice super delegates?

What if the super delegates decide to flip a coin for their collective votes? Or individual votes?

What if the super delegates vote for the candidate they haven't promised to? Can they still keep the money they've been bribed with to vote for a certain candidate? Can they be sued?

What if the super delegates are pregnant? Can they vote twice?

What if the super delegates...

Shit, this crap can go on forever.

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What if the super delegates... (Original Post) valerief Feb 2016 OP
What if the superdelegates don't matter? MineralMan Feb 2016 #1
What if they're not enough? HassleCat Feb 2016 #2
AFAIK, superdelegates belong to DWS... dchill Feb 2016 #3
Simply do their job by acting in accordance to the will of WE THE PEOPLE gyroscope Feb 2016 #4

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
1. What if the superdelegates don't matter?
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:38 PM
Feb 2016

What if one of the candidates has a majority of delegates before the convention? What then?

See, that's what I think will happen, making the superdelegates superfluous. Watch the delegate count following each states primary or caucus. At some point, it will probably show a majority for one of the candidates. When that happens, it's game over.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. What if they're not enough?
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:39 PM
Feb 2016

Not enough to protect the party establishment from an insurgent? Perhaps we need hyper delegates, and maybe some ultra delegates. Just because our party has "democratic" in its name is no reason to respect democracy.

dchill

(38,502 posts)
3. AFAIK, superdelegates belong to DWS...
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:39 PM
Feb 2016

And are reserved for the exclusive use of HRC. So I'm told...

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
4. Simply do their job by acting in accordance to the will of WE THE PEOPLE
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 02:44 PM
Feb 2016

anything less than that and there will be a Yuuuuuuge fucking problem.

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