Before Voting, Clinton Starts Out Ahead of Sanders

David Wasserman notes that Hillary Clinton has a major advantage over Bernie Sanders due to her early dominance of superdelegates.

“He effectively begins the race eight points behind in the delegate count, before any votes are even cast. Unlike on the GOP side, 713 of Democrats’ 4,764 convention delegates (15 percent) are unpledged superdelegates. By the AP’s count last November, Clinton had the support of 359 superdelegates. Since then, according to FiveThirtyEight’s endorsement tracker, Clinton has picked up 21 congressional endorsements, for an estimated total of 380. The most recent count has Sanders at 11.”