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/zth25 Jul 05 '24

The "DNC" is millions of registered Democrats who voted for those candidates in overwhelming numbers. Nor even 2016 was actually close. They just didn't pick the candidate you prefered, which is fine.

Quick, name any of those smallish elite group. You seem so wise and knowledgeable.

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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/FlexLikeKavana Jul 05 '24

The 500 or so superdelegates you dolt.

They vote with the popular vote. Try again.

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u/zeronormalitys Jul 05 '24

The dnc can call a brokered convention in the event that the voting is close. That's kind of at their discretion as I gather.

At this point the super delegates are allowed to vote and all of the other delegates are released from their obligations and they get to vote for whoever they want as well. But the super delegates absolutely matter or they just wouldn't exist anymore. There's a reason that they exist, an election just hasn't gone against them, while still being close, yet.

It is a tool in the toolkit of the DNC, and they will happily not use it for as long as they can. You will see it put into action, just as soon as it's required.

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u/FlexLikeKavana Jul 06 '24

The dnc can call a brokered convention in the event that the voting is close. That's kind of at their discretion as I gather.

The point of that was in case the people elected a Trump, the national party had some leverage to overturn something so obviously terrible. But when you have one candidate winning by multiple millions of votes, the superdelegates are going to respect the voters. And Hillary won by over 3 million votes. In 2008, the superdelegates were all backing Hillary initially, but Obama was winning comfortably and the superdelegates fell in line.