[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/16/2020 9:16 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/14/2020 11:26 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/14/2020 8:24 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> Please, before you talk out your ass, during Bernie's last run (his
>>> 42nd?) for president I was both a big donor and backer. If Hillary
>>> hadn't rigged the primary he would be president now. If Trump had
>>> been actually interested in enforcing the law instead of just keeping
>>> his own ass out of prison Hillary and the heads of the Democratic
>>> party in charge of the primary rigging would have all been put in
>>> prison for financial fraud.
>>
>> Question: What are the 1700 super delegates the democrats allow at
>> their convention?
>>
>> Answer: 1700 votes for a candidate favored by the party leaders who
>> don't give a damn what the people want.
>>
>> Ya all just show up and pull the leaver, no thinking required.
>
> Before the conspiracy theories go to far maybe we should
> recap the actual result.
>
> Available:
>
> pledged delegates  4041
> super delegates     712
> total delegate     4763
> delegates >50%     2382
>
> Hillary:
>
> 16.9 million votes (won 34 states) => 2271 pledged delegates
> 571 super delegates
> total 2842 delegates
>
> Bernie:
>
> 13.2 million votes (won 23 states) => 1820 pledged delegates
> 45 super delegates
> total 1865 delegates
>
> Arne

Not sure where you are getting your numbers.  My (sometimes feeble) 
memory was a total of 1700 super delegates.  Regardless of the number, 
my claim about the super delegates stands.  Not picked by voters.


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