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Old 11-20-2016, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by JCricket View Post
Hey Tom,
Where did you get the info on the 400 point lead? I googled and didn't find anything conclusive. I would like to know more about this.
This is mostly common knowledge that most of the super delegates were in the tank for HRC even before the primaries started. They really did not want nor expect competition for Hillary and then Sanders showed up, an independent running in the Democratic Primary. Why they allowed him is still a mystery but it is quite possible that he gave the Democratic Party's primaries a sense of legitimacy. Here, from a progressive site which some of the bots may object to.
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By February 20, when only three states had held nominating contests, such reporting had conferred on the Clinton campaign an aura of insurmountability, leading some voters to question whether their votes truly mattered. Even as Sanders won a string of contests at the end of March to narrow Clinton’s lead, superdelegates in those states stubbornly clung to Clinton. Despite the second-biggest victory ever in a contested New Hampshire Democratic primary, Sanders was credited with the same number of total delegates as Clinton, thanks to superdelegates.
http://inthesetimes.com/features/sup...y_clinton.html
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