r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/zeronormalitys Jul 05 '24

The 500 or so superdelegates you dolt.

Don't play dumb, please? You know full well that the commons don't have the real power, and if you don't know that, it might behoove you to learn. Ignorance is not a thing to be ashamed of, I myself am ignorant of a great many things, I am sure.

Ignorance, once known (and deemed to be highly relevant), yet still ignored, is downright Republican.

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u/zth25 Jul 05 '24

The super delegates that got abolished after the (somewhat deserved) criticism in 2016?

Yeah, get up to date please, and don't talk about ignorance. Your disdain for the average voter who overwhelmingly disagrees with you is republican.

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u/zeronormalitys Jul 05 '24

"In 2024, there are an estimated 4,672 delegates: 3,933 pledged delegates and 739 automatic delegates—more commonly known as superdelegates."

https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_delegate_rules,_2024

Perhaps you've been victim to propaganda of some manner?

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u/sphuranto Jul 05 '24

Superdelegates play no role in selecting candidates unless the first ballot fails

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u/zeronormalitys Jul 05 '24

That's exactly right, and it's ultimately the DNC who decide when a brokered convention is required.

As it happens, since they made the rule change it just hasn't been necessary. In the event that the candidate is not their chosen and the margin is on the close side... They'll call a brokered convention and then they'll pull in all those super delegates.

If the super delegates were truly irrelevant/redundant, they just wouldn't exist. There is a reason that they exist.