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June 3, 2016 06:30 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5_1ozGeLTWg/democratic-superdelegates.html
Democratic "superdelegates" endorse Bernie
At the outset of the campaign for the Democratic nomination, many of the party's "superdelegates" (party grandees, including current and former officeholders, party officials, etc, who have the ability to swing the nomination at the convention if they think the popular vote has selected an "unelectable" candidate) publicly pledged for Hillary Clinton, but Sanders supporters have held out hope that they would switch sides when it became apparent that Bernie Sanders had a better chance of winning the general election than Hillary Clinton did. (more…)
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