Superdelegate have never swayed a primary. Not once. And since the blowback from the 2016 primary, they have changed the rules to ensure that they will never subvert the will of the voters.
The idea that there was some groundwell of support for Bernie that was discouraged from voting at all because the meanie superdelegates had announced who they supported is baseless. Bernie could have faught it out if he got more votes than Hillary. All those governors and former office holders that had those votes had not cast them yet and pledging to support a candidate is not the same as casting your vote at the convention. They might have thought twice about supporting Hillary if she was only getting 48% to Bernie’s 52. That would have been an actual thumb on the scale.
We will never know, because the primary voters wanted Hillary, just like the general election voters.
Superdelegate have never swayed a primary. Not once. And since the blowback from the 2016 primary, they have changed the rules to ensure that they will never subvert the will of the voters.
The idea that there was some groundwell of support for Bernie that was discouraged from voting at all because the meanie superdelegates had announced who they supported is baseless. Bernie could have faught it out if he got more votes than Hillary. All those governors and former office holders that had those votes had not cast them yet and pledging to support a candidate is not the same as casting your vote at the convention. They might have thought twice about supporting Hillary if she was only getting 48% to Bernie’s 52. That would have been an actual thumb on the scale.
We will never know, because the primary voters wanted Hillary, just like the general election voters.