2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAre you really telling me the superdelegates in WA and CO should follow what voters in MS
do?
The superdelegates in states like washington and colorado need to follow the will of their own voters, not the will of the voters in mississippi, and alabama.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)That was set before anyone got in the race.
revbones
(3,660 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)How "democratic" of you.
msongs
(67,420 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)IamMab
(1,359 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)They set the rules. Now it's up to Bernie to change some hearts and minds. #feelthebern
onehandle
(51,122 posts)All this bluster about superdelegates is just that.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)about following the "will of the voters".
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)and the Super Delegates are overwhelmingly for the establishment candidate.
We shouldn't even have Super Delegates. Our primary process (and the outcome) should be determined by the voters, not party insiders, most who are one percenters.
It's pretty pathetic and embarrassing when the Republican primary is more Democratic and fair than the Democratic Party's process.
We look like tools on the national stage.
I didn't agree with all of this wrangling in 2008 either. It's an obnoxiously stupid aspect of our Democratic Primary.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)That I was never proud of.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)why?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)has been in place for quite a while now. Don't like it? Start working within the party and convince others to help you change it.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)They're not beholden to any group, vote count, or anything else. You might thing that's unfair, but that is the system that has been in place for some time in the Democratic Party.
You can work to change it. Just become part of Democratic Party leadership. That starts with joining and working within your local party organization. We have an active party organization. Join it and work for change.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...ideally with the needs of the party in mind.
Sometimes that's going to mean doing what someone else has done.