So, we found out that elected delegates don't matter weeks ago,

once it became evident Hillary wasn't going to win them. "Oh, no," they said, "the superdelegates can vote however they want to, and they'll ignore the undemocratic caucuses, open primaries, red-state primaries, small-state primaries, liberal-state primaries, interior-west primaries, southern primaries, primaries with black voters, and primaries with white liberal voters. No, the superdelegates will vote however they please, and whoever gets 2025 first wins it all."

Now that Obama's closing on an absolute mathematical delegate majority, we find out superdelegates don't matter either, because, as our buddy Terry McAwful (and, following that, the entire Hilly Fan Squad here) told us today, "superdelegates don't vote until the convention." Now, this statement is completely meaningless, since technically no delegates have ever voted "until the convention" and we've managed to have nominees before, so I'm not quite sure where he's going with that, but hey, I'll just take him at his word.

So, er...I really want to be a good Democrat here. Could someone please tell me what matters for declaring a nominee? That is to say, if it wasn't superdelegates, and it wasn't pledged delegates, and it wasn't the complete delegate numbers...what criteria was Hillary Clinton thinking of when she said we'd have a nominee by Super Tuesday?

The nominee's name must be Hillary Clinton. If it's not, we don't have a nominee. :eyes:


On edit: Just realized my subject line was grammatically incorrect. :blush:

square it, and perform a couple of quadratic equations on the length of the rivers that run through the states that are not fly overs, you would have more of a clue.

It was all spelled out in her handbook, "Democratic Nominations for People who Don't Care What Rules A Candidate Originally Agreed Upon!" or some such volume

no longer "mattered"

That ain't Obama. Seriously, are Clinton apologists actually, literally addicted to accusing Obama of their candidate's malfeasance?

The one and only pledged delegate to switch was a former Obama supporter that Clinton stupidly failed to vet, and who later decided of his own accord to support his original choice for President. He's an idiot, a moron--and only one person.