Bernie Sanders should just accept the numbers

In the 2012 presidential election, 1,755,396 Washingtonians Democrats voted for Obama. In the 2016 caucus, 230,000 people voted. That represents 13 percent of the Democrats that voted in 2012, yet the Bernie Sanders apologists declare 13 percent is the will of the people, and that we should take vengeance on the Hillary Clinton superdelegates.

In Alaska in 2012, 122,640 Democrats voted for Obama, and in the primary caucus of 2016, the grand total of 539 Democrats voted: 440 for Bernie, 99 for Hillary. The number in Alaska is 0.3 percent that voted in the caucus. Is that the will of the people? The term “the will of the people” in presidential primary politics usually means the person with the most delegates and the most popular vote.

Superdelegates always capitulate to the person who has the most delegates and the most popular votes. As of today, Hillary is 321 delegates ahead of Sanders, and more than 3 million raw votes ahead. So what do you do, Bernie apologists? You change the arguments from delegates and raw votes to attacking the superdelegates.

This story was originally published May 25, 2016 at 10:52 AM with the headline "Bernie Sanders should just accept the numbers."