Superdelegates

[mahnmut]

Donkey Punch

I found this segment hilarious, but regardless of its comedic purpose, it actually shows how irrelevant to today's political realities the Democratic Party nomination system is. Jason Jones interviews a superdelegate who happens to be a college student and grills Gary Hart about his former presidential chances.

Comments

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

I imagined that the Super-delegates are some prominent people with important position in the Democratic party, with long experience and great contribution to the party. If the majority of the Super-delegates are like this, I don`t know... How do they select the Super-delegates! With a lottery?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Yes that's what I thought initially. That the superdelegates are some sort of guardian angels or wise Elders but it turns out they aren't. In their majority, these are activists who have contributed in a way to the party. So their vote weighs as much as several thousand "ordinary" votes of the sheeple, oops sorry I meant people. And this is called the DEMOCRATIC party.