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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether [View all]Gothmog
(145,242 posts)One of the major reasons is to make sure that the Party's elected leaders have a role in party functions and decisions. The persons who are super delegates are elected officials who are leaders in the party. Fro example, the members of the CBC should be super delegates and I support their opposition to this proposed rule change.
As for the claim of democracy, do you understand how regular delegates are elected? I have been through this process and there is a ton of politics. I knew that I had to be elected at the senate district caucuses because the at large process was stacked towards elected officials and major donors. The people who get elected at the Senate District caucuses to be national delegates are people who are vetted and who have strong party ties. The at large delegates are mostly state elected officials who are not super delegates and major donors. For example, Texas has 11 or 12 state senators who are democrats and all of these state senators were elected as at large delegates. One of these state senators is a law school classmate and he was at the 2008 convention because he had fun introducing my middle child who was at the Denver convention as a chaperon for a group of high school students to some of the party leaders. At the convention, I sat next to a state court district judge, a state representative, and my classmate who is a state senator.
The attacks on the super delegate process are amusing to me but then again, i have seen the entire process up close