Re: Campaign 2016 Part XII: What Have We Done To Deserve This?
How is he "getting jobbed"? The superdelegates are part of the process. Like them or not, they were there going into the primaries, they were not suddenly thrown on everyone at the last second. So if your total includes them, it can move around at times based on when they decide. In this case, perhaps they felt the numbers were solid enough that Hillary would clinch pledged delegates today and felt it was an opportune time to jump in. That's their prerogative and within their rights.
Of course, having the total you look at be the total number of delegates is not the best idea, since as mentioned the superdelegates can decide and undecide whenever they want to, so reaching half of the total is not written in stone. But all of this is how this system is designing to work. Yes, Bernie has done much better than everyone thought, congrats to him on that; but in the end Hillary will have won more states, more votes, and most importantly the majority of pledged delegates, and as a result she will win. No one is getting screwed here, at least not anyone who bothered to know the rules going on.
If they don't like those rules, they are welcome to stick around and add their input and change the process. The plus side of actually sticking around also means they might actually vote come mid-term time, which if they want any of their plans to ever come to fruition will be necessary, since it turns out having state legislatures and Congress on your side too is pretty important towards getting legislation passed, not just voting for one guy/gal every four years.
