WP Fact Checker: The Sanders campaign’s phony math on superdelegates : Rated Four Pinocchios

[factfinder_77]

The Sanders campaign’s phony math on superdelegates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/05/the-sanders-campaigns-phony-math-on-superdelegates/

[virtualobserver]

1. if Bernie finishes with a majority of pledged delegates....

and Superdelegates give it to Hillary, the Democratic party will explode.

[morningfog]

2. Yep and vice versa. Axe the supers moving forward.

[virtualobserver]

5. exactly....the rest of that is a bunch of noise.

[redstateblues]

3. Bernie will endorse Hillary at the convention

[grossproffit]

18. I wouldn't count on anything from him. He's the one pushing for a contested convention.

Some of his supporters really scare me. I hope no one ends up getting killed.

[virtualobserver]

7. I do.

[MADem]

14. That's not going to happen. Sanders has an insurmountable deficit to overcome. nt

[virtualobserver]

15. it is large, not insurmountable.

[MADem]

16. I think, after all this shakes out, he will have found it to be insurmountable.nt

[virtualobserver]

17. Now, you might very well think that, but of course I couldn't possibly comment.

[DURHAM D]

4. Wow. Bernie is a liar. nt

[Blue_Adept]

8. Weaver continues to be a bad hire.

Just the worst in getting the right message out there.

[MADem]

13. Weaver is just the loyal factotum; the "hatchet man." The real mendacity is in Devine.

Devine keeps fundraising, sucking in those Tubman Plus Seven donations, and squirreling massive amounts of Little People cash away at his own firm, where he produces ineffective, expensive ads that don't give BS the bang for his buck that he wants. He spent MILLIONS in NY and IN, and he's falling further and further behind.

So long as Tad can suck money out of that golden goose that is the Sanders campaign, he's going to egg his principal on, and encourage him to stay in and "fight" (for what? Fight to give Donald Trump talking points? Fight to cause his own constituents to become disenchanted with him?). He's, of course, welcome to do what he'd like, but he should understand that his actions and his choices will have conesquences for him that will resonate long after people forget he even ran for POTUS.

[NurseJackie]

9. Do they think we can't count? Or that we can't research? Or that we can't look at a calendar?

An example of this theory appears in the statement by Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. He pointed to the fact that 120 superdelegates switched from Clinton to Obama in the contested 2008 campaign?

(...)

The Sanders campaign provided a list of 116 superdelegates that it said had switched from Clinton to Obama. The list did not include the date that a superdelegate switched, which made us instantly suspicious.

[JaneyVee]

10. Tad Devine needs more $$$

[CrowCityDem]

11. Not only are they wrong about the facts...

but they also remain completely oblivious to reality. For one thing, superdelegates don't often change their allegiance while the primaries are still being contested, but there's not one shred of evidence to suggest that they would ever overturn the result of the voters, or that they would move over and support the guy who has called their party corrupt and criminal.

By this point, given what we all know is going to happen, the right thing to do would be for Bernie to stop attacking Democrats. He just keeps digging himself a bigger hole.

[Lucinda]

19. TY ~ KNR