Tag archive for ‘superdelegates’
The pain
Superdelegates, in all of their deliberations, must certainly be considering the following:
The Clinton campaign claims that Hillary’s win in Ohio and her lead in Pennsylvania signal that she is more likely than Obama to win in a general election. These state’s constituents include large percentages of the kind of white working class voters who have [...]
Cowboy caucusing
It’s caucus day in Wyoming, which is one of the boxy Rocky Mountain states without a well-known film festival to bring in celebrities and news cameras. If you’ve never heard of it, Wyoming is the real purrty place that lives right below Montana. If you’ve never heard of Montana, it’s the real purrty place that [...]
Delegates 101
What are delegates, anyway? Are they humans? Are they slowbots? How does this whole democracy contraption even work?
It’s called cronyism
Asked by Tavis about the fact that, in deciding who will be the Democratic party’s nominee for president, the party’s superdelegates may fail to reflect the will of the people, Hillary talks about how great it is, actually, because the superdelegates “know the candidates better” than the voters do anyway, that she’s worked really closely [...]
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