To those who support the DNC dropping Superdelegates, ask yourselves the following...

[brooklynite]

Are you prepared to sit home and watch the Convention on TV?

Because the odds that you’ll get to go will drop precipitously.

Superdelegates are appointed SEPERATELY from the election/caucus process in each State. And the “Party Leaders” and “lobbyists” you disdain will have the organization and connections to get selected through that same process, beating out Party activists, if SD slots are eliminated.

[Voltaire2]

1. Yes sure.

let the people pick the candidates. The convention is an irrelevant obsolete boring distraction.

[unc70]

9. Totally agree

You have decoded the OP. I am content to go to just my local precinct meetings, etc. It’s not about me.

[shanny]

12. Bingo!

[QC]

13. Yep! n/t

[marylandblue]

3. I'm in favor of Superdelegates

If Republicans had them, it would have prevented Trump from winning. Someday, many years from now, a Trump might rise on the left. Don't think it can't happen.

[Wounded Bear]

15. I'm with you...

I would prefer that they keep their votes secret until after the primaries, though. In truth, they wouldn't have really changed 2016, because Hillary won the popular votes in the primaries rather handily anyway. IIRC, Bernie only won one non-caucus state.

Funny how elections have consequences until they are lost.

[mythology]

4. I'm not sure going from effectively zero to actual zero is much of a change.

Then again I really don't care if super delegates go or stay. They aren't going to change the outcome of the primaries for self-interested reasons, and they didn't impact the 2016 primaries no matter how much some people want to claim they did.

[msongs]

5. sure if we also get rid of caucuses and open primaries. nt

[CentralMass]

6. Yes.

[LexVegas]

7. Eliminate open primaries. nt

[Raine]

8. Like there was any chance I'd ever

get to go anyway. No matter how it's done it's always the insiders who control it all.

[Gothmog]

10. I ran and was elected as a Clinton Delegate in 2016

I agree with your analysis as to how the process works

[dawg]

11. I'm for making the process as democratic as possible, and that includes eliminating superdelegates.

Certainly, no unelected delegate has any business casting a vote for or against a potential nominee. It is a recipe for disunity.

[hfojvt]

14. going to a convention has never been a goal of mine

Of course, I am not really a people person, especially large groups of people. To become a delegate would take huge amounts of time and money as it is. As a party activist, I would rather win elections than goto events.

I like to win my primary elections too, and do not like the idea of being trumped by a super delegate. I haven't seen that happen though.