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A big problem is messaging requires lying. He spoke of a Republican Party that didn’t exist. They're also working hard on superdelegate reforms, specifically ways of making the primary more democratic, but keeping the delegates in reserve in case of emergency: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who failed to get the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has campaigned to end the voting power of most superdelegates, keeping the issue alive. McGovern only won one state, Nixon took the other 49. Superdelegates were instituted as a way of preventing the party from nominating candidates that can't win the Presidency, at least in theory. Of course we all know how that turned out: She lost the primary despite her superdelegate advantage, and Barack Obama went on to win the Presidency. As a Democrat I don't know, practically, what changing the the way superdelegates work will accomplish. Historically superdelegates have always voted with the candidate that won the most votes, and there's not a lot of hard evidence to suggest that the perception of an advantage is enough to help one candidate or hurt another. If we'd made super-delegates vote with the delegate winners of their state, in straight proportion, the outcome wouldn't have changed. No matter how you sliced it, Sanders got fewer votes, and thus a lot fewer delegates.