2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters in Washington Demand that superdelegates Respect the Wishes of their Constituents [View all]strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)If Hillary can make it past California and still be ahead in pledged delegates with nowhere else for Bernie to go, WA's superdelegates have a viable reason to stay where they're at now.
Earlier in the primary, I argued that if Bernie goes into the convention and the supers give it to Hillary anyway, there's gonna be hell to pay a la 1968.
However, even though I caucused for Bernie yesterday and view Hillary as Nixon-lite, I'm NOT a hypocrite (and even Nixon had some redeeming qualities, ironically the creation of the EPA was signed by him).
If California wants to give Bernie another blowout and Bernie pulls ahead in pledged delegates, that's when I start writing my office-holding supers to let them know that recreating 1968 is a bad idea.