2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters in Washington Demand that superdelegates Respect the Wishes of their Constituents [View all]SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)are DNC officials. 460 to be exact. They're chosen by the party, not independents. Take WA, for example, only 8 or the 17 are actually at risk of losing their job and even that has caveats.
I'm also not sure that this doesn't benefit Hillary more in the long run. She's winning bigger states with more super delegates. They split the delegates evenly in IL, but if we abide by this petition, then she gains 26 more delegates. Some of those will have to switch if Bernie wants the nomination and if we're building in this rule where super delegates act like pledged delegates and stick with the nominee, then you're giving Hillary Clinton, as of this moment, 260 more delegates and Sanders 134 more delegates. That leaves him worse off than he was yesterday. People might want to wait until after Apr26th to start going down this hole because if she cleans up in NY, PA, MD, and DE, that's 98 more delegates added on to whatever margin of victory that she has.