The Democratic presidential campaign has, as it always does, come down to delegates. Whoever has the most delegates wins, right? Wrong.
The hideous truth about delegates is they can be bought. After all the primary elections, wins and losses, delegates won by a candidate are pledged to a candidate but not bound to that candidate.
In other words, they can switch sides if they want to.
Most people don’t understand the Super Delegates, either. There are 795 Democratic party officials and insiders who will attend the convention this summer and they are officially uncommitted. Not. Each one of them knows which side of their bread gets the butter, and who knows better how to apply the butter than a Clinton. It’s in our political blood.
The print and broadcast media love to count the numbers, but we consider it an exercise in futility. Even if Barack Obama heads into the convention with a 200 delegate lead, he could still lose the nomination by 400 or 500 delegates because delegates can switch sides whenever they want, and the Super Delegates always throw their support to the candidate with the most to give.
It’s math. Who has more to give a delegate than me?
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