Clinton, media still counting superdelegates despite DNC pleas
On April 28,
Luis Miranda, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, did an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper t
o formally clarify the official position of the Democratic Party on when superdelegates are, and are not, supposed to actually count in public vote tallies.
What he said shocked the hell out of me and should shock the hell out of you —
in part because not a single media outlet or the Hillary Clinton campaign has paid one bit of attention to it before or since. Since election season began, networks, newspapers and pundits have included superdelegates in their tallies, but the DNC emphatically said that was wrong over a month ago.
Not on a hot mic or during a commercial break, but live on the air,
Luis Miranda, in no uncertain terms, told Jake Tapper that the media should not be including them. Miranda said, "One of the problems is the way the media reports them. Any night that you have a primary or caucus, and the media lumps the superdelegates in, that they basically polled by calling them up and saying who are you supporting, they don't vote until the convention, and so they shouldn't be included in any count." 
Tapper, seemingly shocked by the candid honesty of Miranda, then asked, "But when we do our totals, do you think it's OK to include them?"
Miranda then doubled down — and completely blew my mind. "Not yet," he said. "Because they're not actually voting
(until the convention in late July) and they are likely to change their mind. Look at 2008 and what happened then was there was all this assumption about what superdelegates were going to do and many of them did change their mind before the convention and it shifted the results in the end."
Hold up! Did the communications director of the DNC just say that superdelegates should not be counted because they are "likely to change their mind," that they basically did just that in 2008, and they "shifted the results" by doing so? Wow... just wow. Had a surrogate or staff for Bernie Sanders said this, they'd be called every foul name imaginable by the Clinton campaign, but Miranda is the communications director for the DNC. He worked for President Obama. He speaks for the Democratic Party.
Tapper, clearly befuddled, then concluded the interview with this summary, which again was shocking: "Very interesting. The DNC itself is saying don't include superdelegates in the totals to cable networks like our own."
Do you think CNN listened to the DNC?
Of course not. See the infographic below — that's from earlier this morning, and it still includes the very delegates that the DNC clearly told CNN not to include:
