, expandr david rohde how the system works.eople might before 2030 60% to 38% trouncing in new hampshire clinton camee, but away with the same number of delegates as bernie sanders. how exactly does it work? >> it works in different ways in every state. either the state governments or the state parties decide what framework to work as sometimes delegates are allocated by the showing within each congressional district and sometimes they are allocated proportionately based on statewide totals, sometimes it is commendation of those two things. so it is going to vary from one state to another. nermeen: could you explain why the democratic party came up with a superdelegate system and whether the republican party follows the same system? let me take the second part first. the republicans have some superdelegates, but i believe the number is three per state. so it is not very important. it is for the national party representatives from the state. democrats that the adopted the superdelegate plan was really because of the possibility