17 February 2008

The Democrats are undemocratic?

This LA Times on-line article explains the whole 'superdelegate' thing. In a nutshell, the party has created a class of 'voters' who outrank a huge number of 'real' voters who merely cast their ballot at the polls or in a caucus: "How powerful are superdelegates? In California, 370 regular delegates were allotted based on the votes of more than 4.5 million people in the state's February 5th primary. That means each of California's 66 superdelegates will cast a convention ballot equivalent to a regular delegate picked by more than 12,000 primary voters."

Rico says if the Republicans had set things up this way, the Democrats would be screaming...

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