[Texas Fossil]

I despise Bill Moyers, I know what an treacherous political operative he is.

This is a lengthy article.

This is a very interesting story about the ComDem Super Delegates. When they began, why they have changed.

There is nothing democratic about the Democrats. (now the Communist/Democrat Party)

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s why I insist on referring to them as the Democrat Party. Because there is absolutely nothing Democratic about them.

After the McGovern debacle in ‘72 they decided that they could not trust their own voters. Don’t be surprised when the GOP does that to US once this election is over.

[stylin19a]

It’s not his age, though at 74 he would be the oldest president in American history.

The oldest to be inaugurated.

[GOPJ]

Self appointed political elites (of the corrupt kind) have been stealing power from ‘the people’ down through history. Look at countries run by 'elites' and it's obvious Plato was wrong. In short order Philosopher Kings are feathering their own nests and getting plum jobs for their wife's lame-o family members. Mankind has been there and done that...

What made our country great wasn't ‘diversity’ it was the wisdom of our founding fathers to safeguard the rights of ordinary people.

Think of it as ‘the invisible hand’ of politics - much like the ‘invisible hand’ of economics. In both cases ‘the people’ make better choices than committees of elites.

That's what democrats did they 'consolidated their power' by stealing it from 'the people'. - it's not more complicated than that... Oh and yeah Bill Moyers is a jerk.

[Dr. Sivana]

One thing omitted from the article is that the McGovern rules had hard quotas on race and sex (e.g. women =50% or greater of delegates). This gave radicals like McGovern a head start on getting delegate support at the convention, and made it harder for older constituencies (e.g. southern whites) to get their constituencies the same level of influence.

[Nero Germanicus]

538 individuals known as “Electors” will decide who becomes the next President of the United States.
About 15% of the Democrats’ delegates are unbound “super-delegates” (official name is “Party Leaders and Elected Officials”)
About 8% (200 delegates) of the Republican Party’s delegates are unbound on the first ballot.
The GOP has free-agent delegates who will be officially unbound at the convention. A bit more than half will be from states or territories that didn’t hold a binding primary or caucus, or states/territories that allow delegates to run unpledged, or have other arcane state GOP rules. Pennsylvania’s “beauty contest” primary produced 54 unpledged delegates, for instance. Guam and American Samoa produced 18.

The rest of the Republican unpledged will be delegates won by candidates who subsequently dropped out of the race. Different states have different rules on when and how these unbound delegates become free to vote for others. But many will arrive in Cleveland able to throw their support to whomever they want.

[LibFreeUSA]

Everyone knows that political party power structures start from the TOP down. “Superdelegates” are people in the party structure who owe their comnplete loyalty to the party structure and so are nothing more than ‘political chips’ owned by the few TOP party people in the power structure. Its that simple.