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Kang Colby

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11. One small issue with your post.
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 05:18 PM
Jun 2016

I think this highlights how absurd the Sanders campaign is. You said:

It's unfortunate that it is required of her by her opposition, where it hasn't been the last several cycles, where the SDs pushed the number over


Hillary will finish Tuesday with a pledged delegate majority.

But what Bernie is actually demanding is that she reach 2383 with pledged delegates alone. The "magic number" of 2383 is a majority (50%+1) of all delegates, including supers. So in other words, the #berniemath is that Hillary must include all delegates (pledged+super) in the denominator, but based on #berniemath, Hillary is not allowed to include supers in the numerator until the convention. Fortunately, the DNC doesn't follow #berniemath.

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