Debbie Wasserman Schultz ORDERS The Media To Stop Talking About ‘SuperDelegates’
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/debbie-wasserman-schultz-orders-the-media-to-stop-talking-about-superdelegates Robert Gehl
March 10, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has given the media an order: Ignore the Democrats superdelegates.
They need to stop talking about it immediately, she said. But they’re not listening.
Speaking to Rachel Maddow, the DNC chairwoman tried to claim that counting superdelegates was “inaccurate.”
From The Huffington Post:
“The way the media is reporting this is incorrect,” Wasserman Schultz told Rachel Maddow of MSNBC on February 20th. “There are not pledged delegates — or ‘super-delegates’ — earned at any of these caucus contests.”
She went on to note that super-delegates are “free to decide [who to vote for] anytime up until July,” and can change their mind at any time — one reason they can’t be reported as being conclusively attached to any particular candidate. “So combining them [the voted-on or ‘earned’ delegates and the super-delegates] at each phase of this contest is not an accurate picture of how this works,” she said.
“It’s really important to report these [super-delegates] in a completely different way,” she added, in the event her repeated admonitions on the topic had been unclear.
Of course, the media is actually correct here. The “superdelegate” process that Democrats have is the opposite of “democracy.” If it leads to Hillary getting the nomination, the whiny Bernie-iacs are going to be livid.
