I'm just Super how about you?

[unapatriciated]

Super Delegates are begetting more super delegates. After this election I think it is time to rethink the electoral process.

Some Superdelegates More Super Than Rest

Chart shows breakdown of Democratic superdelegates; 1c x 1 1/4 inches; 46.5 ...
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, AP
25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Some of those presidential superdelegates Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are pursuing are more super than others.

One delegate, one vote doesn't apply to them. These prominent Democrats can name additional superdelegates, giving them control over multiple convention votes, and that could be the difference in a race that may not be decided until the August convention.

The clout of the nearly 800 superdelegates is unprecedented in this year's race because neither Obama nor Clinton can clinch the nomination with only the delegates won in state primaries and caucuses. Largely overlooked in the arcane process, though, is the power of a select few to complete the superdelegate ranks by naming 76 newbies, and Clinton and Obama are fighting hard over every one of those from state conventions to back rooms.

Separated by fewer than 140 delegates, both candidates are lobbying the hundreds of known superdelegates, employing family, friends and influential surrogates to woo the governors, lawmakers and other party leaders. Some are more important than others.

Consider Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party. He remains uncommitted, yet he could be the most powerful superdelegate of all. Torres gets to name five additional superdelegates, giving him control over six votes at the national convention this summer.

"I am the super of supers!" Torres proclaims with a laugh.

He and other state party chairmen will appoint most of the additional 76, known in Democratic ranks as "unpledged add-ons."

http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2008/04/04/Super.Sized.Delegates/

[DerekJ]

1. Supers, Super Supers, Pledged, and Pledged add ons.

:cry:

[unapatriciated]

2. not sure what you mean

with the :cry:
I would just like to see one vote with every vote counted, no more, no less.
I will not be :cry: with either Obama or Clinton as a nominee.
Both are far better the McCain, now that would make me :hide: or consider a move north... maybe not too cold.

[MaineDem]

3. "state party chairmen"

Many are women. Poorly written article.