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Democratic Party officials voted Saturday to strip superdelegates of much of their power in the presidential nominating process, infuriating many traditionalists while handing a victory to the party’s left flank.
The measure’s overwhelming approval – met by cheers in a hotel ballroom here – concluded a tense summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, which had labored over the issue since 2016. Superdelegates that year largely sided with Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, enraging Sanders’ supporters.
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The article portrays this as a big win for Sanders supporters. Imo it was a meaningless fight about nothing. Sanders supporters won but they won nothing. Since the primary system was established the super delegates have never voted against the winner of the primaries and I doubt they ever will. Except in some unlikely event for example the primary winner is later discovered to be a criminal or pedophile. When Obama surprisingly won the primary vote count a majority of super delegates changed their vote from Hillary to Obama. The same would have happened if Sanders had won the primary vote. The super delegates didn't switch their vote because Sanders lost the primary vote. The whole argument is stupid.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 3:27pm
A victory for non-party members at the expense of loyalists and party workers. A perfect bland non-commital landscape for next year's fickle new fashion, ripe for the Democrats' Trump, with no safety valve. What could go wrong?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 5:19pm
These same brainiacs want to sideline Pelosi because... well, just because. So what if she's the most effective legislator & fundraiser we have - time for a change, even if for the worse.
And they haven't addressed the humorous irony that caucuses are in practice much more undemocratic with real repercussions than superdelegates have been since Carter's time. Not that I'm against caucuses - they do allow new blood to break into the game.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 1:31pm