&gt; You can&#x27;t sit here and say &quot;The public doesn&#x27;t care. Look at Hillary&quot; when Sanders is actually the popular candidate and he is a proponent of stronger privacy laws.<p>While Sanders has swung to near parity (slightly ahead in some) in national polls, he&#x27;s finished just behind Hillary in both Iowa and Nevada caucuses (but well ahead in the NH primary). He&#x27;s won slightly fewer votes overall, and the two candidates have about the same number of pledged delegates (I&#x27;ve seen different sources claiming 52&#x2F;51 Hillary and an even 51&#x2F;51 current split.) This is based on actual votes of actual voters, not skewed to establishment figures. Neither candidate is, either on the actual votes or the national polls, substantially more popular.<p>Hillary is far ahead in terms of informal commitments by unpledged delegates (superdelegates) who are mostly incumbent party officeholders, but those aren&#x27;t votes, and while some media outlets report them as if they were the same as pledged delegates, they aren&#x27;t. Superdelegates can and do switch allegiance over the course of the campaign, the same way as other public endorsements do.