Super-Delegate, Super-Disaster

Republicans must be jumping up and down. The Super-delegate system might be the greatest thing that could ever happen for them in the upcomming election.

If the super dels. determine the nominee, they will inevitably use this as their main argument against us in the GE.

"Dont vote for the democrat, after all, a majority of thier own party didn't either." I can see it now.

Not to mention that it would tear our party apart and drive voter turnout way down.


Time to get rid of this outdated system.

not to mention un-democratic.

... vying with citizens for places at the convention. I don't know if that's a great idea.

I favor making the superdelegates ex officio and non voting, except in certain really limited circumstances, and then more like a tie breaker than anything.

We can't call ourselves the Democratic party and use some Politiburo system to ensure party regimen. That's more Stalinist than Progressive.

AKA whoever wins the primaries/caucuses.

Why is that so hard to understand? Some people need to take democracy 101.

in their states. Do you agree?

he said the super delegates should vote for who has the most delegates voted in the primary process.

Obama this week warned Super-delegates to vote the way their states have voted, "if this contest comes down to super-delegates, we are going to be able to say we have more pledged delegates, which means the Democratic voters have spoken. Those super-delegates, those party insiders would have to think long and hard how they would approach the nomination." Obama suggested "the argument we would be making to super-delegates is, if we come into the convention with more pledged delegates then I think we can make a very strong argument that our constituencies have spoken and I think that's going to be pretty important when it comes to the general election."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/the-super-deleg.html

Supers will fall in behind the electorate.

Some are already making noise about this. If Hillary doesn't win upcoming contests, or if Obama doesn't run the table we will be deadlocked anyway.

Then (and I repeat Oh SHIT!) we are in brokered convention territory.