Carter: Dem leaders should follow people

[L. Coyote]

Carter: Dem leaders should follow people
Carter Says Superdelegates Should Follow the People but Not Be Bound to Do So
AP News - Apr 13, 2008 14:51 EST - http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Carter_Dem_leaders_should_follow_pe_04132008.html


Former President Carter says Democratic superdelegates should follow the people and vote for the presidential candidate with the most delegates, but that they also should be free to vote the other way if they want.

Carter said in a taped interview broadcast Sunday that "it would be a very serious mistake" and "difficult to explain" if the superdelegates were to vote against the candidate with the most popular votes, the most delegates and the most states won..........

Asked whether he agreed that superdelegates should not overturn the will of the people, Carter said, "I basically agree with it."

"But I think that any superdelegate who wishes to deviate from that opinion should be perfectly free to do so," he said. He noted that Clinton won Massachusetts but that two of its top superdelegates — Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry — have endorsed Obama.

...... Carter spoke on ABC's "This Week."

[frebrd]

1. K&R n/m

[iamthebandfanman]

2. yeah, they should do whatever they want

but then they should be prepared for the consequences of not going with the person who won the popular vote.

[nichomachus]

3. Popular vote -- or most states won -- or most delegates

So, which is it?

Then whole idea of the super delegates is to step in when someone has won a lot of early delegates or states or popular votes, but then has shown that he or she doesn't really have the support he or she had early on.

If they just follow the "most popular vote" theory, then what's the point of having them.

There is a possibility that a candidate could grab a lot of popular votes early on, then reveal himself/herself as a closet Republican and unacceptable to a lot of people who voted early on, after they've had a chance to re-evaluate.