For weeks he has been whining about the super delegates somehow being an unfair practice as the SDs are allowed to vote who they want even against the will of the people.
He said it was wrong that though he beat HRC in NH by 22 points, they left the state even in delegates.
But it's not unfair, it's the rules, the system that the Democratic party has run on for years. And his manager, Tad Devine, knows that perfectly well.
Yet they did all the breastbeating about this ripping off the popular will. I mean in 2008, Obama won a number of states Hillary got more votes in. There was no outcry.
As there shouldn't be-this is a game of delegates not states.
But after a just brutal night for Bernie they have done a 180 on SDs. Now it's ok for the SDs to vote contrary to the popular vote. Now they are actually arguing that they can win by convincing the SDs to vote for Bernie, even if Hillary wins on the popular vote.
So now Bernie himself wants to win on SDs.
"Bernie's longshot victory strategy."
"After string of defeats, he looks to friendlier turf and a possible plea to superdelegates."
"Bernie Sanders is falling further and further behind in pledged delegates — but even after Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday romp, his campaign says there’s a longshot strategy that lets him regain momentum and win the Democratic nomination by relying on superdelegates even if he comes into the Philadelphia convention still trailing Clinton."
"Sanders’ campaign thinks the next few weeks of the campaign calendar favor him and is preparing plans to make the uphill case to the superdelegates—the 718 activists and elected officials who can vote however they please—that his late-breaking momentum would make him a stronger nominee that they should support over Clinton."
"The Sanders forces have a big hill to climb: 467 of the superdelegates are currently pledged to Clinton, compared to 26 for Sanders, according to an Associated Press count. She also has at least a 324-vote lead in pledged delegates. But the Sanders campaign says that in a few weeks they will have the momentum to make their case."
“Our plan on this is we’ve got a long way to go, and we’ve got to demonstrate that Bernie’s the strongest candidate,” said Sanders strategist Tad Devine. “We believe that slowly we can win support for people who aren’t for someone, or who are softly for her, and then we can reach out more.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-longshot-victory-superdelegates-220847#ixzz434LB1U00
Newsflash Mr. Devine. You are wrong that most of Hillary's support is soft. You've been wrong about this from day one which is why you are where you are now.
Are the SDs really going to switch to a guy who just admitted he's only renting the party for the money and publicity?
The whole Jihad against superdelegates never made any sense anyway. Many of these are elected Democratic officials-Bernie Sanders himself is a superdelegate. Turns out being a superdelegate doesn't make you Dr. Evil.
But the idea that Bernie is going to roll to big wins in Utah and Idaho to stealing the election via superdelegates just shows that he has no path to victory.
Most Democrats are increasingly focused on Trump and Bernie should stop tilting at windmills and wind down his campaign.
He said it was wrong that though he beat HRC in NH by 22 points, they left the state even in delegates.
But it's not unfair, it's the rules, the system that the Democratic party has run on for years. And his manager, Tad Devine, knows that perfectly well.
Yet they did all the breastbeating about this ripping off the popular will. I mean in 2008, Obama won a number of states Hillary got more votes in. There was no outcry.
As there shouldn't be-this is a game of delegates not states.
But after a just brutal night for Bernie they have done a 180 on SDs. Now it's ok for the SDs to vote contrary to the popular vote. Now they are actually arguing that they can win by convincing the SDs to vote for Bernie, even if Hillary wins on the popular vote.
So now Bernie himself wants to win on SDs.
"Bernie's longshot victory strategy."
"After string of defeats, he looks to friendlier turf and a possible plea to superdelegates."
"Bernie Sanders is falling further and further behind in pledged delegates — but even after Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday romp, his campaign says there’s a longshot strategy that lets him regain momentum and win the Democratic nomination by relying on superdelegates even if he comes into the Philadelphia convention still trailing Clinton."
"Sanders’ campaign thinks the next few weeks of the campaign calendar favor him and is preparing plans to make the uphill case to the superdelegates—the 718 activists and elected officials who can vote however they please—that his late-breaking momentum would make him a stronger nominee that they should support over Clinton."
"The Sanders forces have a big hill to climb: 467 of the superdelegates are currently pledged to Clinton, compared to 26 for Sanders, according to an Associated Press count. She also has at least a 324-vote lead in pledged delegates. But the Sanders campaign says that in a few weeks they will have the momentum to make their case."
“Our plan on this is we’ve got a long way to go, and we’ve got to demonstrate that Bernie’s the strongest candidate,” said Sanders strategist Tad Devine. “We believe that slowly we can win support for people who aren’t for someone, or who are softly for her, and then we can reach out more.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-longshot-victory-superdelegates-220847#ixzz434LB1U00
Newsflash Mr. Devine. You are wrong that most of Hillary's support is soft. You've been wrong about this from day one which is why you are where you are now.
Are the SDs really going to switch to a guy who just admitted he's only renting the party for the money and publicity?
The whole Jihad against superdelegates never made any sense anyway. Many of these are elected Democratic officials-Bernie Sanders himself is a superdelegate. Turns out being a superdelegate doesn't make you Dr. Evil.
But the idea that Bernie is going to roll to big wins in Utah and Idaho to stealing the election via superdelegates just shows that he has no path to victory.
Most Democrats are increasingly focused on Trump and Bernie should stop tilting at windmills and wind down his campaign.
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