Reply #78: That's a clever move, but... [View All]

[Austinitis]

I don't think it quite works.

that superdelegates ought to respect the aspects of the nominating process that are voter-controlled

I think this is a slight adjustment of what the Obama camp was actually saying a few months ago (and that you've done it so gracefully suggests to me that something similar might be done with the earlier Hillary position). I don't know that this is what people would take away if they watched the old tapes of Obama surrogates venerating popular will.

The line you're pushing now is the exact same line, only puffed up with transparent outrage. "The supers can overturn the process because they prefer Hillary" has now been replaced with "the supers can overturn the process because she might be ahead in an arbitrary nonbinding metric"

I think this is a bit of a stretch. I'm saying supers can't overturn the will of the people. They're not overturning any process because the process 1) includes them and 2) doesn't say anything about the pledged-delegate leading being some kind of "default" choice of the process. They're perfectly consistent with the process no matter what they do, but they can overturn popular will if they don't vote as they should.