So far, voters have made their voice heard for the candidate of their choice in two states. In Iowa, Hillary Clinton only managed to beat Bernie Sanders with .3 percent of the vote. In N.H., however, she lost with 38 percent to Sanders’ 60.4 percent.
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Despite her razor thin win in one state and tremendous loss in another, Hillary has a commanding lead of 394 delegates, to Sanders’ 42 delegates.
As the Daily Caller explained, Hillary has at least 15 delegates from N.H. after her loss, which is more than Sanders’ at least 13 delegates, because of the state’s super delegates.
The pledged delegates based on popular vote provided Sanders with 13, Hillary with nine, and two uncommitted. There are eight super delegates though, which count just as much.
This result is frustrating to those who just want to see a fair election, but to Sanders’ supporters as well, and likely to millennials who support him especially. Millennials came out to overwhelmingly support Sanders in both Iowa and N.H.
With the real results becoming more well known, Russ Belville has taken to lamenting for the Huffington Post with his piece “Hillary’s Superdelegate Coup Just Confirms to Millennials: The System Is Rigged.”
Belville “wonder[s] what kind of surprise awaits the Millennial voter the more he or she sees the results of their hard work canvassing for voters to Feel the Bern.”
Hillary’s older surrogates and supporters talking down to and denigrating young women also likely helps to chase these millennials away. It certainly didn’t help the campaign, and it’s even more certain this show of favoritism won’t either.
Belville calls them “Marvel’s Democratic Superdelegates,” but then notes he’s “just kidding” because “Marvel’s heroes are better looking.”
Thanks to “some quick Excel work,” Belville notes that with the 355 “bigwigs pledging to vote for her,” she “already had 14.9 percent of the votes she needed to get the nomination before the first caucus was ever tallied in Iowa.”
Towards his closing, Belville notes that the situation pits the super delegates at going against “the people or… the Clinton dynasty.”
It’s likely millennials will be in for a rude awakening, and the thought that the system may really truly, in fact, be rigged. Such a revelation doesn’t help the Democratic establishment when the DNC has already been thought to unfairly favor Hillary with their debate schedules, and now there’s the super delegate system.
