And yet, Hillary has as many delegates as Bernie coming out of NH. Absolute LOL with the democrats fucking Bernie sideways with their absurd super delegate system. Hahahahaaahaha!
Its not a big deal. They end up supporting the nominee anyways.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-28/clinton-s-superdelegate-tipping-point Superdelegates were added in the 1980s for two reasons. One was practical: It was the only way to ensure that those party leaders could get to the convention, at least as delegates. The other was political: Democrats were concerned that their new system didn’t place enough weight on electability, and believed a larger voice for politicians and formal party leaders would tilt the nomination in that direction.
In the event, the “supers” have never tilted the nomination;
they always line up with the candidate who won the most delegates in the caucuses and primaries. That’s essentially what happened in 2008: Clinton had an early lead in superdelegates, but as Barack Obama started winning caucuses and primaries, he wound up picking up almost all the undecided supers and even some defectors from Clinto