Reply #123: If they "go with the popular candidate," why are they 2 to 1 for HRC?

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She's got 248 declared superdelegates, Obama's got 141.

Is it ALWAYS this way? Do they ALWAYS follow the normal delegates? I cannot fathom why this would be, AT ALL. Why have a pool of 800 or so delegates that make this much of a difference (almost 1/3), and then expect them to vote with the common sheeple? It doesn't make any sense to me. I would actually have thought the opposite. These are the most politically connected and savvy Dems, who would be expected to mitigate a close result by voting for what the Party wants, not just the delegates of the Party.

I could be wrong, badly informed, both, or just plain confused, however...

I can't ever remember any race being this close, or one where the S-Ds voted differently (or HAD to) but I've only been interested in US elections since Reagan started screwing EVERYONE.