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13002627, Well, they tied in Wisconsin delegates.
Posted by stravinskian, Mon Apr-11-16 07:07 PM

I'm annoyed about these stories about how Hillary won the delegates. Everyone agrees superdelegates can and do change allegiances, so we shouldn't count them until the convention. But it's too cute a story for a lot of reporters (and fucks like Joe Scarborough) to pass up.

On pledged delegates, they came out even in Wisconsin, and that's only because there are so few Democratic delegates in Wisconsin that a 12% lead is just barely too little to count for one. It was just rounding.

The superdelegate system is stupid (it exists for a good reason, but it's a hopelessly self defeating mechanism), but it will only be a real issue if superdelegates overrule a pledged delegate leader, which I don't think anyone ever expects to see.