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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-16-08 08:33 AM
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45. Lewis didn't say what you report. Check your sources. What he said was....
Edited on Sat Feb-16-08 08:34 AM by indie_ana_500
that he was feeling pressure (from within himself) to change his endorsement. He did not actually change his endorsement.

But to answer your question, there are 2 valid choices for superdelegates, in my view:

Superdelegates should endorse the way their constituency voted (this could be their state, their district, their city, whatever....they are not all elected officials, so they don't all have a defined constituency).

Superdelegates should endorse in accordance with whoever the voters in the country as a whole decided should win the primary.

Kennedy, etc., are endorsing in accordance with the 2nd thought process. Lewis is not endorsing in accordance with EITHER. In other words, Lewis and others are going against BOTH who their conwstituency wants AND who the voters as a whole in the country want. That is the problem, as I see it.

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