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...Clinton and Barack Obama began their bids with months of fundraising and media spin, and it seems now that they will end it by soliciting votes from party elites instead of the American people.In a contest with just over 4,000 total delegates, these unpledged Democratic “superdelegates?? control almost 800 votes—a 20 percent stake that could become the margin of victory in the nomination. The Republicans, gradually coalescing around John McCain, have been spared the superdelegate dogfight in 2008, but their policy is far from commendable: 19 percent of the delegates...
...after the ludicrous nomination of then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic Party reformed the selection process to give more “power to the people.” Unlike the past, when nominations were decided by the elites of the Democratic Party (think “superdelegates??), votes in the primaries and caucuses would actually receive their due. Hence 3,253 delegates and 796 superdelegates...
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