Have superdelegates helped or hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign?

[IceSpear]

Nobody voted based off a number on the NY Times or CNN website. This is a pathetic excuse. If you're going to blame something, blame the debate schedule.

Superdelegates are worthless though and do nothing besides breed resentment, and that goes for any year.

[IceSpear]

There's no way they helped considering she easily won a majority of pledged delegates. The fact that they exist as a mechanism to protect the establishment and that they overwhelmingly backed Clinton could totally be used against Clinton.

Have you ever heard of the "bandwagon effect?"

The bandwagon effect was never really present in the D primary. Even after each candidate got yuge wins, they got little to no "momentum" out of them. Considering that, I highly doubt any people were switching their votes based off a number on CNN or the AP's website.

[IceSpear]

The argument that superdelegates hurt Hillary's campaign is equivalent to the argument that Cruz's victory in Colorado helped Trump. Victories always help you, that's the point of them. You can fight your opponent painting your victories as unfair, but your opponent can't really fight the edge in delegates you gained by your victory.

The difference is that "momentum"/bandwagoning actually existed on the GOP side. After NY the party's voters collectively decided enough is enough and wanted to get the primary over with. That may have partially been due to Trump's rigged system arguments.