2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It really pisses me off that Bernie [View all]anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)Look, when they run a race at athletic meets, the race is the part between the start and finish line. Later the top 3 finishers (usually) walk over the the podium where they are presented with tier medals. But that is not part of the race. If you came in second then you can't get the gold medal by rushing to the podium, they're simply not going to hand it to you instead of the person who finished ahead of you.
Now it's true that superdelegates could theoretically vote differently from the way they have stated they will and so lead to a dramatic and surprising reversal, but there's absolutely no reason so far to think that they are about to do so - and if there were some drastic external change, like the FBI arresting Hillary Clinton or something, then it would not matter if Bernie had suspended his campaign already.
Continuing to run despite the race being over is a national-scale demonstration of what economists call the 'Sunk cost fallacy' the notion that because you've poured so much effort or so many resources into something, it can't be abandoned even if it is obviously a failure. Time for a different strategy.