Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumSanders Can Win the Democratic Presidential Primary — Here’s How
Principle 1: Pledged Delegates Are the Key
Hillary Clinton lost the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008 to Barack Obama by the thinnest of margins despite winning the popular vote because Obama won slightly more pledged delegates during the race than she did 1,828.5 to her 1,726.5.
Pledged delegates are awarded to presidential contenders based on how well they do in the Democratic Party primaries and caucuses1 held in the countrys 435 Congressional districts as well as the District of Colombia and U.S. territories in a total of 57 contests. Clintons attempt to override the results of the process that gave Obama a slim majority of pledged delegates by appealing to current and former Democratic Party officeholders (the so-called superdelegates) failed. Superdelegates were not about to risk a fight on the convention floor with furious Obama supporters and throw the party into disarray on the eve of the general election campaign to make a winner out of a loser. As Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and superdelegate put it at the time: If the votes of the superdelegates overturn whats happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.
To become the Democratic Partys presidential nominee the way Obama did in 2008, Sanders needs to win approximately 1,885 pledged delegates2 that is, 50% of all pledged delegates plus 1. The number of pledged and unpledged delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright is 2,242.
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)in essence the same thing, and he's the only one commited to halting the GRAB of our country .
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)It seems every day I read that a venue has to be changed because more people want to see him than had been anticipated. The more his message gets out, the more people will support him.
I really believe Hillary is vulnerable. There have been so many issues with her over the years; scandals or rumors of scandals, trust, honesty, transparency, hidden agendas, ties to Wall Street and the one percent, etc. ad nauseum. It seems she is always putting out a fire or deflecting accusations of one kind or another. She has baggage, much of it is of her own making.
Bernie is an open book - what you see is what you get. There is no hidden agenda. He doesn't have to rely on a focus group or consult with an army of advisors before taking a position. There is no position that is "evolving". He knows what he believes and is happy to tell you what it is. That kind of candor, coupled with a platform that voters have been longing for will serve him well in the months to come.
Don't count Bernie out.