Thread: The Democrats Have a Nominee: It's Clinton!
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Old 04-28-2008, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by NoSocialism.com View Post
If the Super Delegates don't see this or won't act on it, then why have the Super Delegate system in the first place? They might as well adopt the same system the Republicans have and avoid all these headaches in the future.
That's maybe half the reason. Another reason was to prevent pluralities and procedural fights at the DNC. Such as could happen at this one if it gets tight and Florida or Michigan try for last minute revotes or something.

And another was to "involve the party leaders in the process" the idea being they'd work harder for candidates they were involved with and invested in. It is not hard to believe that either Hillary or Obama may be sweetening the pot for any number of superdelegates. And that has to be a motivating factor.

I imagine Hillary is better at this.
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