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Bernie Sanders

TexasBushwhacker

(20,167 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 01:55 PM May 2016

How to explain the Sanders campaign ...

to an Idiot, Paul Krugman or a Clintonite in 8 Sentences

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/how-to-explain-the-sanders_b_10206250.html

"Sentence #1: If a Democratic primary candidate can win 59 percent of the Party’s “pledged” (primary- and caucus-won) delegates or more, the primary is decided by pledged delegates; if a Democratic primary candidate fails to meet that threshold, they are considered by DNC electoral processes to be a weak front-runner and the nomination is finally decided, instead, by “superdelegates” ...