Neither of them want to cast their votes for Donald Trump.
I know you’re just making a joke but I think it should be pointed out that a large chunk of the “unpledged” delegates from Pennsylvania said they were going to vote for Trump or the winner of their congressional district i.e. Trump.
I wonder if the Maine Democratic party can change those rules. They aren’t Maine’s delegates - they are the DNCs delegates. They don’t get there because they are from Maine. They get there because they have standing in the party.
The OP is blaming the superdelegates and ignoring the fact that the majority of regular delegates are also voting for Clinton. No doubt there are already discussions on how to fix the anti-democratic process of people voting for the wrong candidate.
Well they are people who have standing AND come from Maine. Three of the four from Maine are DNC officers and one is a congressperson but that ratio varies State to State. I am curious how this shakes out. As you say, they really are the DNC’s delegates but I think they might feel obligated to follow a State party decree. Guess we’ll see if the big boys bring the hammer down.
As Michigan knows, and to Clinton’s detriment in 2008, the hammer involves saying “none of your delegates count.”
Well, the final hammer was your delegates count for half vote each.
I am not sure if they can come down as hard on this rule violation though, optics wise. Everyone hates a line jumper, less people are going to be sympathetic to punishing a state for being more democratic in their process. They might just say the rule is unenforceable.
I think it depends on how they do it and when. If they announce they are considering action now against the state Democratic Party for violating convention rules, then announce their decision right before voting (when it won’t matter anyway), it will get lost in the noise, but the state parties will get the message.
Electoral-Vote did a piece on this yesterday. If superdelegates were awarded on a winner-takes-all basis per state, Clinton would be leading by 521 delegates. If they were awarded proportionally, Clinton would be leading by 350 delegates. Superdelegates are having zero actual impact on the race – Sanders is no more equipped to overcome a 350 delegate lead than he is a 750 delegate lead.
Wisconsin, Utah, Vermont, Colorado, and Alaska have joined Maine as states that will no longer have superdelegates.
No, they haven’t. They passed resolutions calling for the DNC to make that change.