Let's talk about Superdelegates for a moment.
Primaries and caucuses, the place where you, the voter, get to show your preference for the next candidate for the presidency, are only part of the candidate selection process. In order to win the nomination, the Democrat candidate must win a total of 2025 delegates. Superdelegates are folks who get to go and vote at the convention without being elected by the ordinary voter, and the Democrats have 721 of the little buggers.
Think about that for a second. 35.6% of the delegates needed to get the party nomination are answerable not to the people, but only to themselves.
Or the folks who paid good money to get them their superdelegate status.
35.6% That means there's 1 of them for every two delegates elected by the people. So in a way, if you're a Democrat, you only get 2/3's of a vote.
Why, that's positively unAmerican, diluting the people's voice like that. It's a good thing that the Republican Party doesn't stand for that kind of nonsense. They only give 463 delegates, or 36.8% of the total needed, the power to vote as they please, instead of according to the people's wishes.
Wait, that's about the same as the Democrats. You mean to tell me that the Republican Party is every bit as corrupt and incompetent as the Democrats?
Say it ain't so!
Posted by Rich at March 5, 2008 3:51 PM | TrackBack