Can Bernie get the Superdelegates to defect from Hillary in 11th hour?

[BlueSwan]

Of course not.

Infact, the Sanders campaign, which begun as an idealistic campaign based on a positive message has turned into everything it wasn't supposed to be. Vying for superdelegates, going negative on the presumptive democratic nominee, not calling rapid violent supporters to order, it's pretty damn ugly.

[BlueSwan]

So where is Bernie's campaign getting the idea that they can get Hillary's superdelegates? Just because he's a couple points ahead of Trump in the polls?

Or are they just seriously delusional?

They're obviously out of touch with reality.

This has been all they've got for at least two months now.  At the Washington caucuses the only argument the Bernie people could give was that we needed to pick him over Hillary because he scored better than her against Trump so he was the "safe pick."  I don't think anyone for a second believed that Bernie was a safer general election pick than Hillary, but there you have it.  Especially given that anyone who knows how to open a PDF file can see that a large part of the reason Hillary's losing to Trump is because a huge number of Sanders supporters are saying they won't vote for her in the general.  Nobody's going to reward that kind of hostage-taking.

Oh they do believe it. And it isn't even close to being the craziest thing they believe. Some of them make the Young Turks seem totally grounded in reality.

[BlueSwan]

But if he doesn't have the decency to drop out and endorse Hillary after June 7, we're going to see Obama, Hillary, and Pelosi give Bernie a royal smackdown from on high.

I'm not so sure. They're scared to death of angering the Bernie supporters. And rightfully so. But this is the real wild card. If Bernie really takes the fight to the convention, this election is Trumps for the taking.