The Role of Super Delegates

[floridablue]

Isn't their existence for the purpose of protecting elected officials as delegates to their convention when they are not supporting the favorite. I recall in Missouri 1976 when the Republican State Convention being controlled by the Reagan forces excluding Bond and Danforth among others as delegates. The convention in their home state and they standing for re-election, they were allowed as Super Delegates even though they supported Ford.

[liberalnurse]

1. Please add a little more information.

I'm intrested in how this has played before.

[ThomWV]

2. Don't you all know about Chicago in 1968?

The Democratic Party selected a nominee who had not participated in the Primary process. See what that means? The people had no voice in the selection of Hubert Humphry to be the Democratic Nominee for President. It tore the Party, and to an extent the nation, apart. Superdelegates who stopped the party from nominating the 'wrong person' the guy who had won all those pesky primary elections and caucus.