OK. You need a majority of votes to win a two person contest. Right?

[LAS14]

So if you include super delegates Hillary will have a majority by the end of Tuesday.

BUT if you EXCLUDE super delegates, as Bernie has been wanting to do all along (except for his flip-em strategy) she STILL has a majority.

So Bernie wants to exclude super delegates when calculating whether Hillary has the magic number - a majority of pledged plus super delegates. If he wants the media and everyone else to ignore superdelegates, then we should switch the magic number to be a majority of pledged delegates. Right????

I don't get it. Why does anyone go along with his thinking?

[George II]

1. Give it up, I've explained that about a dozen times in the last week or two. No one will accept it.

I've summed it up like this, in their eyes:

>50% + > 50% = <50%.

(pledged, superdelegates, total)

[beachbum bob]

2. you take 50% + 1 of the pledged delgates which is what 2026...as you remove supers altogether and

hillary will meet this number too.....she will have the majority....and its a very large majority of all 4 metrics

votes
pledged delegates
super delegates
and final delegate count of pledged and supers


no argument exist that denies the fact hillary has won evey thing a winning candidate can win and bernie has lost everything a losing candidate can lose

[Her Sister]

5. Plus a fifth metric : Number of States!

[caquillo]

9. .

no argument exist that denies the fact hillary has won evey thing a winning candidate can win and bernie has lost everything a losing candidate can lose

Sadly, when you're a woman or a minority, you have to do better than your best against The Man. You have to be exceptional, and even that may not cut it.

[Her Sister]

11. Clinton won 29 out of 57 States! Puerto Rico was 29th win!

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Not like it matters, but Puerto Rico was Clinton's 29th victory and she will therefore win a majority of the 57 contests of the season

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/739879650579582976

[jmowreader]

12. Will?

She's already at majority status.

[Her Sister]

13. Keeekeeeeekeeee! Yeah! Isn't that awesome!!!

Any way you peel it!! Got ourselves a winner!

[displacedtexan]

3. Easy. According to Sanders, she's not leading by a big enough margin.

Simply winning isn't good enough for him.

[Cha]

8. 800 delegates aren't enough? I wish President Obama would

explain it to him. I hope that happens.. I can only imagine what he thinks of him by now.

Nate Cohn
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Clinton now leads Sanders by 800 delegates, per NBC count. She's 24 away from the 2,383 needed to win. He's 824 away.
3:58 PM - 5 Jun 2016 · Manhattan, NY, United States
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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/5/1534921/-Hillary-wins-Puerto-Rico

[beachbum bob]

10. anything sanders says is nonsense now his rationale doesn't work on any level

whether in sports, elections, or life


all ego driven by a small man that can't handle the attention of the big stage

[Her Sister]

4. 4,051 Pledged Delegates plus 714 Super Delegates = Total +4,765

2026 Majority of Pledged Delegates
2383 Majority of Total Delegates

She will reach both on Tuesday!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2016USDem

[Her Sister]

7. 2026 - 1811 (HRC's Pledged Delegates as of Today) = 215 To reach Pledged Delegates Majority

694 Pledged Delegates for grabs on Tuesday! She needs 32% of Pledged Delegates!

Half of New Jersey is 63
Half of California is 237.5

63 + 237.5 = 300

She will have 300 guaranteed Delegates on Tuesday!

She reaches Majority either way!

[liberal N proud]

6. The disillusioned often cannot explain why

[NastyRiffraff]

14. BUT! Superdelegates are bad!

They are proof that the Democratic party is corrupt! Oh, except any supers who flip to Bernie. Which is none. So, superdelegates are bad!

The man not only doesn't understand simple math...I'm talking about third grade math, not calculus...but he makes no sense.

[DemonGoddess]

15. As everyone else has said

by the end of Tuesday, she will have clinched with EVERY metric. Majority of pledged, majority of pledged+SD, majority of SD, majority of contests, majority of votes.