she said dan abrams has been talking about this on his show and this is what i found:
We continue our campaign tonight to try to make sure the Democratic voters, not party insiders known as superdelegates ultimately make the decision between Obama and Clinton. Tonight: the delegate count is still being sorted out, Obama now leads with 861 pledged actual delegates, Hillary Clinton with 855. And in close third, the 796 superdelegates, yes, the superdelegates, the Democrats in Congress, the governors, the members of the Democratic National Committee, the VIPs who hold nearly 40 percent of the necessary votes needed to win the nomination.
So far, nearly 18.5 million people who voted in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. More than 1, 800 delegates have been awarded, that means a delegate is worth approximately 10,000 votes. And then there are the 1.5 million voters from Florida who don‘t count because party officials decided Florida shouldn‘t count. And now, the same power brokers decide whether it‘s Obama or Clinton.
I‘ll say it again, scrap the superdelegates. If the superdelegates have to vote, and let them reflect the voters of their state or district. Here with us, Congressman Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington and a superdelegate who is supporting Obama; Rachel Maddow, MSNBC political analyst and Air America radio host; and Peter Beinart from the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book, “The Good Fight”. All right. Adam, can you possibly justify your vote being worth 10,000 of the voters‘ votes?
REP. ADAM SMITH, (D) WASHINGTON: Absolutely not. I don‘t think we should have superdelegates.
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PETER BEINART, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Here‘s the reason the superdelegates are useful. You need 50 percent to win. It‘s not a plurality, most elections in America, you only need a plurality but to win the nomination, you need a majority. Let‘s say there are three or four candidates and the leading one gets 35 percent of the votes, that means that nobody‘s going to get 50 percent. One of the reasons for superdelegates would they would go with the winner to put you over 50 percent. There are better ways of doing that but it‘s worth noting that if you have proportional representation and you demand a majority, you‘re headed for trouble down the road.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: You‘re not headed for trouble though, you‘re just headed for a second vote. I mean, there‘s all sort of parliamentary ways -
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BEINART: Let‘s be clear, that‘s a broker convention, let‘s be clear about that.
ABRAMS: All right. Look, if there‘s a tie, Rachel, I‘m happy for some group of party elders or VIPs and the Adam Smiths will get together and they will say, you know what, we‘ve got to make a decision here because there‘s a tie. I‘m fine with that. But absent a tie, it seems to me that you‘ve got an insane system in place where they have so much power, there are so many of them, I think a lot of people didn‘t know this going into the process.
MADDOW: I‘m not happy with the idea of the council of elders taking over in the case of a tie. I mean, elections are sometimes about things being very close and you let the voters decide. I mean, in this case, you let the voters‘ delegates to decide. I don‘t think there needs to be a star chamber or some group of wise men to put the brakes on what the voters are going to decide. It could get messy; it could be a process that takes a long time. That‘s OK.
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ABRAMS: Let me tell you about the absurdity of this, alright? You got a teamsters member as superdelegates, you got the president of United Federation of Teachers, you got an attorney who represents the Washington State Democratic Party, you got an Oregon political activist and blogger, I mean, you know, this is nuts. These people have the equivalent of 10,000 votes each.
MADDOW: And that tells you, this is designed to be a council of elders that‘s designed to make things better when the voters don‘t do the right thing.
(CROSSTALK)
BEINART: It‘s worth here noting that the vast majority of these superdelegates are elected. In fact, most of them are elected by a much broader cross-section of the population than a small group of activist who tend to turn to out -
ABRAMS: But they weren‘t elected. They weren‘t elected to vote on the presidential candidate.
BEINART: I agree. But, it‘s still worth noting by their very lively -
ABRAMS: But a lot of them aren‘t elected, I mean, you‘ve got Democratic Party members.
(CROSSTALK)
ABRAMS: But here‘s the problem, Peter. There‘s going to be a crisis of confidence, OK? If people don‘t talk about this, we‘re going to have another Bush V. Gore coming out of the convention. People are going to claim, it was unfair, they‘re going to say that the people weren‘t represented. And I feel like, you know, I‘m the sole voice out there saying, look, let‘s come to a solution now, today, before it gets too close.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23069793randi was saying we should call howard dean at the dnc and tell him to not let the superdelegates vote at all--let the voters pick the nominee