Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT) is a superdelegate

Right?

This is nothing more than old-school, political double-talk.........bullshit!

He basically said he would go against the will of his constituents. What he's doing is antithetical to democracy. Vermonters should demand answers from him. It's as simple as that.

And I hope he changes his mind.

This situation, in VT, is the perfect example of why superdelegates are an insane concept.

they exist to provide professional politicians super-influence within the democratic party.

And so they do.

Even the Republican Party doesn't do this.

My understanding is Hillary extracted these promises from people even before she let the public know she was going to run. First, she got all her little duckies in a row.

Dammit. I used to like this guy.

People wonder why Elizabeth Warren has not endorsed. Look at what these endorsements do. One completely alienates the other half of the party.

Wanna see what happens when a superdelegate makes a fool of himself ...



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I never thought I'd be mad at Patrick Leahy. This whole thing has really shown the true (purchased) colors of the party, hasn't it?

A. Because the people of Vermont allowed him to represent them in DC.

You owe EVERYTHING to Vermont, Senator. Everything.

when he picked the Democratic Party to nail his colors to for his presidential run?

AFAIK the superdelegates can support whoever they like.

And if you're going to ask whether we the people were aware of these rules when we registered as Democrats (thirty five years ago, in my case), superdelegates didn't exist then.

If Vermonters don't like what he does, they can primary him. That's why we call this place a democracy!