| and here's a kicker...
The super-delegates are party leaders and lawmakers, including all Democratic members of Congress and former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, as well as ex-vice president Al Gore.
And it's not Republicans WTF when it comes to super delegates JW. The Republicans do not have a similar super-delegate system. They have a bit more sense than that.
also...
Kamarck sees the super-delegates as a “sort of safety valve” so that, for instance, “if the convention’s platform committee is adopting something that would be really detrimental in the general election,” the party leaders can take steps to prevent that from happening.
But “it is very difficult to argue” that the super-delegate system “has consequences, unintended or intended,” said Mayer.
To me it's the democratic party saying "If we don't like what YOU the voter are putting forward as a candidate...we can override the will of the people and back the other candidate." Maybe it doesn't read like that but it says the "platform committee" decides if that candidate is detrimental or not despite what the public wants. This is how the Dems roll.
It's the same way with taxes. They believe they can spend your money better than you can that's why they raise taxes. GRRRRR
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