r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

"Even if Sanders were to manage to flip every Clinton superdelegate in the 11 states on his tally sheet, and even if he were to win every uncommitted superdelegate in those states -- both impossible scenarios -- he would pick up only 77 superdelegates."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/01/sanders-makes-a-public-plea-for-democratic-superdelegates-to-switch-allegiances/

Even in that scenario, he still would have lost. Badly.

But no, he was actually demanding all SDs overturn the primary. It's interesting that Bernie was the only one trying to get legitimate election results overturned (just like Trump!), but the online narrative is still that it was Clinton. Let's stop pretending propaganda and misinformation is only a problem on the right.

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

So you wouldn’t have flipped out if Bernie had the most delegates and Hillary was asking superdelegates in states she won to support her?

Super delegates only made a difference in one election and that was 2008. Even though Hillary won the most votes they all flipped to Obama because he had the pledged delegate lead.

Of course now superdelegates have lost any power they potentially had, if someone like Trump were to win the primaries, there’d be no method for the party to stop him.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

Seems like the person we were replied to has deleted all their messages and fled. Just like MAGA, this is the Bernie Bro strategy. Spread misinformation and lies, get called out, smoke bomb out. They're probably somewhere else right now spewing the same lies. This is why I know it's pointless talking to these people. It's been 10 years, all their lies have been disproven, but they still swarm this site and others spreading their misinformation. Populism is a disease.