[Dilbert San Diego]

“Superdelegates, put simply, are a bad idea for a party that consists more of a combination of demographically based interest groups than a consistent ideology.”

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Yes, the Democrats are a collection of various interest groups, or groups that have a grievance/victim mentality about their place in society.

I’m not sure about the Republicans unified party ideology sometimes, but I think it’s true that, if you consider yourself a member of a group that has grievances and has been allegedly victimized by society or goverment, chances are, you are a Democrat.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Ironically, superdelegates might make greater sense in the Republican Party, which is more programmatic in the beliefs held by its members. Superdelegates could help to keep candidates on the straight and narrow--a combination of limited government, conservative social policy and commitment to peace through strength. What we have here is the right mechanism but the wrong party using it.

Maybe, but human nature being human nature, and politicians being politicians (of whatever ideological stripe), this "Superdelegate" (read: elitist) concept just rings of anti-democracy .. the will of the people be damned. I don't hold with it.