Do you support the Dem's super delegate system the way it is?

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

Superdelegates are pretty bad. I'm with Kal--either be honest that it's chosen by the party, or make it much more democratic.

What we really need is a better electoral system to keep these major parties accountable, in addition to representing those pesky grassroots "unelectable" wackos.

I think letting the elected officials have a say in the ticket they're going to have to run under is fine.

We've just got a set of cowardly and myopic elected officials right now.

Wait, you basically said "the system's okay, it's just that we have inadequete people running it. But in the future we'll have good people running it!"

You have WAY too much faith in authority.

Winning is fighting for your principles.

Clinton's a little bit to the right of me on some things (I still agree with her on 92% of issues), while Sanders' is more in line (~95%). Republicans, meanwhile are entirely disagreeable.

Bernie's actually doing significantly better than Hillary in General Election polls. So...

"But Leinad, GE polls this far out are trash!"

Exactly. General Election polls, at this point, are mostly about name ID. Polls in general are, frankly. Hillary Clinton has been in the public eye for over two decades, Bernie Sanders has been unknown to most people since a year ago.

"But Leinad, they'll hammer Bernie for being a 'socialist!'"

And? They hammered Obama for being a socialist, AND a Muslim, AND a Kenyan, AND a reincarnation of Saul Freaking Alinsky. Besides, conservative media will have much more fun with Clinton's baggage than Sanders's.

  I'm starting to wonder about this, especially with all of the endless email bullcrap... maybe Sanders would have been a better candidate after all. Ah well.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

It's funny how Democrats are all about the popular vote in the general election, but when it comes to their party, the elders have to make sure the people made the right choice.  So much for the popular vote right? It's a horrible system.

I mean... If Sanders had won the popular vote, then I'm sure that superdelegates would have swung to him, assuming that he remained up in the general polls. Anything else would have been terrible optics, and would have made a horrible start to Clinton's season