Never mind. I found it. The party system in this country is seriously f'd up. http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/10/h...-hampshire-delegates-than-sanders-after-loss/
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ely-to-leave-nh-with-same-number-of-delegates Hillary Clinton is expected to leave New Hampshire with just as many delegates as Bernie Sanders, even after he crushed her in Tuesday’s presidential primary. Sanders had won 13 delegates with his 20-point victory on Tuesday and is expected to raise that total to 15 by the time all of the votes are counted. Two of the state’s 24 delegates are currently unpledged but will likely be awarded to Sanders once the results are finalized. Clinton won nine delegates in the primary but came into the contest with the support of six superdelegates, who are state party insiders given the freedom to support any candidate they choose.
I've been thinking lately that we should go to an American Idol format for picking the presidential candidates for each party. Have tryouts for each party in a half-dozen cities around the country. A panel of judges (the 3 from AI are going to be available shortly) handing out golden tickets to Washington Week. At Washington Week, groups have to work together to spin some issue and then get winnowed down to the top 24. Weekly TV vote-offs from that point on until the winner for each party is selected. The winners get $10 million each to use in their campaign and can't take any other money. National election follows in 3 weeks. I think this format would be far more entertaining and more likely to produce decent candidates than the current mess.
Or maybe we should count votes like Democrats. Just count the votes in Democratic Party leaning precincts.
I'll have to look again. some news outlet summarizing on twitter EDIT: David Sirota on twitter @davidsirota
super delegates = House of Lords If Bernie keeps winning a lot of the super delegates will switch to Bernie.
Although the writer of the column linked below insists it won't be an issue, I will be fascinated to see what happens if Sanders wins (for example) fewer than 200 more delegates than Clinton, and the race is close enough for superdelegates to decide it. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...ers-big-win-in-new-hampshire-establishme.html
I don't see the superdelegates all staying with Clinton in that scenario. Superdelegates want to be on the winning side as much as anyone else - enough of them will switch to Sanders in that case. They aren't locked in to Clinton. I don't expect it to get to that point, though. barfo
If that's the case, it makes one wonder what the point is of the superdelegates pre-pledging on the first place.
