WashPost factchecker shreds Sanders superdelegate math:-->Four Pinocchios
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Alex Seitz-Wald ?@aseitzwald 17h17 hours ago
WashPost factchecker shreds Sanders superdelegate math: Only 10 switched to Obama before last primary in '08.
Fact Checker
The Sanders campaign’s phony math on superdelegates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/05/the-sanders-campaigns-phony-math-on-superdelegates/
“During the course of 2008, over 120 superdelegates switched their quote-unquote allegiance in that process. In fact, there is a lot of movement of superdelegates in these contests.”
— Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign manager, in an interview on MSNBC, May 2, 2016
To win the Democratic presidential nomination, a candidate needs a majority of the delegates to the convention. Most of the delegates — 4,046 pledged to vote for the candidate — are selected through primaries and caucuses. But there are also 719 “superdelegates,” who are elected officials, former elected officials and other eminence grises of the Democratic Party who can back whomever they want.................
The Pinocchio Test
Weaver cast the 120 figure as happening “in the course of 2008” and said it demonstrated “a lot of movement” in allegiance to the two candidates. But the record shows the opposite. Just 10 people switched from Clinton to Obama before the last primary votes were cast. The number grows to 28 if you include people who switched just before Clinton dropped out on June 7.
But it’s highly misleading to count delegates who switched after Clinton dropped out of the race — and she began to urge party unity behind Obama. Weaver earns Four Pinocchios.
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