to have the candidate of their choice. And, you can bet it will never be someone the grassroots supports.

Have they determined the outcome?

How often has the nominee with the greatest level of popular vote support been denied the nomination?

Answers: First question: arguably, but not clearly, 1984 when SDs helped Mondale hold off Hart. Mondale had more popular support.

Second question: 2008 when Obama won the nomination despite having garnered slightly fewer popular votes than Clinton. Obama did not need SDs to win.

the peoples vote. What we have now, often, are a bunch of career politicians and their cronies, and frankly some being grifters, worming their way back to feed at the money trough, to obtain power, and to favor their cronies.

They met with their appointed delegates in Colorado Springs and gave all their support to Ted Cruz. That's pretty bad.

After quite a few major Democratic losses.

Everybody on DU knows that superdelegates were implemented by Debbie the Devil and her DNC minions back in late 2015 with the specific purpose of thwarting Bernie in order to ensure the coronation of Hillary. We don't need facts like yours that completely destroy this theory because theories like this one fuel our rage!

For starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate

And Tad Devine, Bernie's top campaign advisor, played a key role in their creation. http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dnc-didnt-sabotage-bernie-sanders-campaign-delegate-conspiracy/

Bad cat! Bad cat! You're going to give Sanders acolytes a sad.

Same as it ever was...

... when Tad Devine "... went on to serve as Deputy Director of Delegate Selection in the nomination campaign of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Executive Assistant to the Campaign Manager in the 1984 general election ..." (as per Wikipedia).

Those superdelegates did come in handy for Mondale, yet the general election was as big a disaster as the Democratic Party has ever experienced.

I expect Mr. Devine had not anticipated working on an outsider's campaign at that time.

The riots at the '68 convention, basically. They let us vote for our candidates, but they kept themselves a big lever on the result. We can change that if we want, but we'd have to get involved again.

to it than that.

By the early 70s the protesters had pretty much taken the election process out of the hands of the establishment just like today Bernie's supporters are trying to do in a political revolution.

The 1968 Democratic Convention was a great example of that when it broke out in police riots (run by Mayor Dailey). The establishment inside the convention won that round but the people won in 1972. The establishment used another way to have their way in 1972. They refused to help McGovern in his campaign. We lost and they used the lose to create super-delegates. Not just elected officials but others who no longer answer to the voters - Ex-politicians, DNC appointees, lobbyists, etc.