And now, with the attention focused on the Democrats, they're going to have to figure out what's going on with their Superdelegates. Except in the highly unlikely possibility of a complete blowout over the remaining primaries from one or the other candidates, either would wind up short of the 2,025 needed to win as there just aren't enough pledged delegates left.
And so the superdelegates will end up deciding the Democrat candidate, which seems pretty undemocratic. Highly, even. So as I see it there are two options, as the public backlash from such a thing would probably defeat them in november.
1) Play out the rest of the primaries and have the superdelegates side with the carrier of the popular vote (the candidate with the majority of pledged delegates).
2) Broker an internal solution within the party now, forego the remaining primaries and begin to campaign nationally with whatever ticket they've effectively chosen.
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