I'm thinking that 'superdelegates' are going to figure large in the next GOP Presidential primary.

[onehandle]

They will 'invent' them to prevent another Trump.

[NeoGreen]

1. Something about a horse and barn door...

... and they had better hope for, and work for, a large loss, or he and his ilk will not go away.

[oberliner]

2. Republicans don't have super delegates

Only Democrats have those.

[onehandle]

3. Thus the word 'invent.' nt

[glennward]

4. But they will after this election. Firewall against the craven like Trump.

Democrats need to keep a substantial core of them and CLOSE all primaries and get rid of caucuses. If you want to impact Democratic primaries, you ought to have to a registered Democrat.

[SFnomad]

5. It looks like the Democrats and the Republicans will cross paths when it comes to Superdelegates

between now and the 2020 elections. The Democrats will make them less powerful and the Republicans will create them and make them more powerful.

[tanyev]

6. Didn't they retool the primary schedule after 2012 to favor an early leader?

Their biggest problem is a stage full of candidates that poured out of a clown car.

[The Second Stone]

7. Republicans do in fact have superdelegates, just a lot less than Democrats

http://www.bustle.com/articles/141611-does-the-gop-have-superdelegates-the-republican-partys-nomination-rules-are-different-this-year

I don't think that Republican superdelegates would have deterred Trump, just like in 2008 for the Democrats, the newcomer got conversions as he gained the majority of the vote. Obama was a responsible candidate, so the superdelegates decided to go with the majority. It may have been different if it had been a nutcase. The Republicans only have different degrees of nutcase.