Politicians and gov’ts never voluntarily reduce their personal and political power.
So… problem solved, right? Not really. This is just a recommendation from the committee. It still has to make it through the DNC rules and bylaws committee and then, assuming it somehow survives, get through a vote of the full DNC. And you won’t be shocked to learn that a significant majority of the people on the DNC wind up being superdelegates every cycle, so you’re asking them to abandon their own perks and privileges in the interest of giving the voters a fair shake. How do you suppose that will work out?
Never.
Both parties have superdelegates. The difference is that the Republicans have 150, three per state. The Democrats have over 700 of them, including all their Congressmen. Republican superdelegates are not nearly numerous enough to decide the outcome of a leadership race, whereas those in the tank for Hillary were more than enough to give her an unbeatable edge.
Lance is right, the existing superdelegates will absolutely get this killed in committee.
Ask socks about election reform.
Or even that non citizen cab min monsef.
Funny how not democratic the Democratic Party is.
All this talk about delegates to the national convention got me to thinking about something very interesting.
Obviously, the national conventions for the political parties are patterned after the electoral college. Each state is assigned a certain number of delegates. (Let’s leave off the superdelegates for a while.) Not too long ago the way the states chose the delegates was varied. Most had state conventions, some had primaries. Now they are all chosen by the primaries, mostly by winner takes all. No one bothers to add up all the individual votes in the primary for each state to come up with the “national popular vote” for each candidate, to determine who “really” won the nomination. The candidate with the most delegate vote, not primary “popular vote” wins the nomination. Period. If the electoral college is a good enough method for the party to choose its nominee, why is it so evil for the nation to choose its president, especially since it is the method specified explicitly in the Constitution.
As a matter of fact, of course, the electoral college is much more democratic than how the Democrats do it. The superdelegates are appointed, not elected, so the rank and file Democratic party members (i.e. those registered as Democrats) has much less to say about who gets to be their party’s nominee than about who gets to be president. Funny, ain’t it?
I steadfastly refuse to use the ‘ic’ at the end of Democrat. They are simply Democrats … a creature of some sort. They are NOT an equitable political system of any sort whatsoever.
However, the Dems are NEVER going to reform their Superdelgates. Otherwise how are Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, et.at. get … ‘their turn’ … before they are riding 3-wheeled scooters.
Next kick at the can the Dems are going to bring forward a relatively unknown candidate like Jimmy Carter was in ’76.
JMO
I hate super-delegates in any situation. The social services club I used to belong to had them as well. Diddn’t take long for favoritism to show through. I had the privilege, and voted along with my club/zone/district results.
I wasn’t really interested in commenting, but Captcha really hit the home run with “SANDERS for sale”
AI has a sense of humour!!!!!
I think politician should be like jury duty; you get a call, you have to do that for 6 months or a year, then it os over.
Either that, or everyone who wins an election is executed after a single term. No more professional politicians.