{"id":27899,"date":"2016-03-27T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27899"},"modified":"2016-03-27T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T01:45:11","slug":"we-need-a-reality-check-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27899","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Reality Check Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/274402-sanders-superdelegates-may-jump-from-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a> is reporting today that after his recent primary victories in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.5,-120.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=47.5,-120.5 (Washington%20%28state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Washington<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Alaska\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=64.0,-150.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=64.0,-150.0 (Alaska)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Alaska<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hawaii\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=21.3113888889,-157.796388889&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=21.3113888889,-157.796388889 (Hawaii)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Hawaii<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bernie Sanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> has stated that he believes that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Superdelegate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superdelegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">super delegates<\/a> will switch from supporting Hillary to supporting him.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The latest delegate counts still put Sanders behind Clinton, however, with 1,004 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Delegate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">pledged delegates<\/a> to her 1,712.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Of those, 469 are superdelegates who have pledged to Clinton and only 29 have pledged to Sanders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sanders on Sunday said those superdelegates may begin to see the &#8220;reality&#8221; that he&#8217;s the best candidate to beat GOP front runner <span class=\"rollover-people\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;I think when they begin to look at reality, and that is that we are beating Donald Trump by much larger margins than Secretary Clinton&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;And then you&#8217;ve got superdelegates in states where we win by 40 or 50 points. I think their own constituents are going to say to them, &#8216;Hey, why don&#8217;t you support the people of our state and vote for Sanders?'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely nothing I can add to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill is reporting today that after his recent primary victories in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, Bernie Sanders has stated that he believes that the super delegates will switch from supporting Hillary to supporting him. 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