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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/16/2020 9:30 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.

Wikipedia got a rather detailed article about 2016 democratic primaries.

:-)

They changed the rules for 2020 a bit.

It is 3979 unpledged delegates and 771 super delegates. But super
delegates does not get to vote in the first round. Meaning that
 >50% of pledged delegates ensure win, but <50% but still most
pledged delegates does not ensure win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Arne