Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether
Source: BuzzFeed News
Democratic officials are considering a new proposal to effectively eliminate all superdelegates, a move that would go beyond recommendations put forward late last year by the commission tasked with making the party's presidential nominating process more fair.
Under the current system for choosing a Democratic nominee, around 700 people called “superdelegates” are entitled to their own delegate to award to the candidate of their choosing, regardless of votes cast — making up about 30% of the 2,382 delegates needed to clinch the party’s nomination. These superdelegates include members of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic elected officials, and "distinguished" party leaders like former presidents and vice presidents. Superdelegates were a major point of contention during the 2016 primary — with many supporters of Bernie Sanders arguing the system unfairly favored Hillary Clinton.
The Unity Reform Commission, formed by Sanders and Clinton to review the party’s nominating process, has since proposed a new system to effectively reduce superdelegates by about 60%: Elected officials and distinguished party leaders would remain “unpledged” superdelegates, able to cast their vote for any candidate. The remaining superdelegates, namely the 447 members of the DNC, would have their delegates “bound” to the their state’s primary or caucus vote. (In the case of a second round of voting at a Democratic convention — historically a rare occurrence in the party’s presidential nominating process — all superdelegates would be unbound.)
The 21 members of the Unity Reform Commission agreed upon the superdelegates proposal at a meeting in early December, following four lengthy gatherings over the course of seven months. Those recommendations then moved to the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee, where members were given a period of six months to put forward a set of final proposals.Democratic officials are considering a new proposal to effectively eliminate all superdelegates, a move that would go beyond recommendations put forward late last year by the commission tasked with making the party's presidential nominating process more fair.
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platitudes as if they are one-size-fits-all and they are not. So your attacks on super delegates apparently are not well supported. 
I think super delegates should be abolished.
They are a Tammany-Hall tradition. They bring corruption. They stink. I do not like super delegates.
I remember sitting on my father's lap listening to a Democratic national convention when I was nine. There were no super delegates. There was a lot of wheeling and dealing which my father explained to me. It hooked me on politics.
Here is some of the history of super delegates.
After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, at which pro-Vietnam War liberal Hubert Humphrey was nominated for the presidency despite not running in a single primary election, the Democratic Party made changes in its delegate selection process to correct what was seen as "illusory" control of the nomination process by primary voters.[15] A commission headed by South Dakota Senator George McGovern and Minnesota Representative Donald M. Fraser met in 1969 and 1970 to make the composition of the Democratic Party's nominating convention less subject to control by party leaders and more responsive to the votes cast in primary elections.
The rules implemented by the McGovern-Fraser Commission shifted the balance of power to primary elections and caucuses, mandating that all delegates be chosen via mechanisms open to all party members.[15] As a result of this change the number of primaries more than doubled over the next three presidential election cycles, from 17 in 1968 to 35 in 1980.[15] Despite the radically increased level of primary participation, with 32 million voters taking part in the selection process by 1980, the Democrats proved largely unsuccessful at the ballot box, with the 1972 presidential campaign of McGovern and the 1980 re-election campaign of Jimmy Carter resulting in landslide defeats.[15] Democratic Party affiliation skidded from 41 percent of the electorate at the time of the McGovern-Fraser Commission report to just 31 percent in the aftermath of the 1980 electoral debacle.[15]
Further soul-searching took place among party leaders, who argued that the pendulum had swung too far in the direction of primary elections over insider decision-making, with one May 1981 California white paper declaring that the Democratic Party had "lost its leadership, collective vision and ties with the past," resulting in the nomination of unelectable candidates.[16] A new 70-member commission headed by Governor of North Carolina Jim Hunt was appointed to further refine the Democratic Party's nomination process, attempting to balance the wishes of rank-and-file Democrats with the collective wisdom of party leaders and to thereby avoid the nomination of insurgent candidates exemplified by the liberal McGovern or the anti-Washington conservative Carter and lessening the potential influence of single-issue politics in the selection process.[16]
Following a series of meetings held from August 1981 to February 1982, the Hunt Commission issued a report which recommended the set aside of unelected and unpledged delegate slots for Democratic members of Congress and for state party chairs and vice chairs (so-called "superdelegates"
.[16] With the original Hunt plan, superdelegates were to represent 30% of all delegates to the national convention, but when it was finally implemented by the Democratic National Committee for the 1984 election, the number of superdelegates was set at 14%.[17] Over time this percentage has gradually increased, until by 2008 the percentage stood at approximately 20% of total delegates to the Democratic Party nominating convention.[18]
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Superdelegates are a method intended from the beginning to insure that the Democratic Party's candidate selection will not accurately reflect the forward-looking, liberal views of Democratic voters.
That may have been OK in pre-internet days.
But now that voters can communicate directly among themselves and with each other. Now that we have internet media, super delegates are holding the Democratic Party back.
I oppose super delegates. We need reform within the Democratic Party that brings it up to the standard of our new methods of communication and new ideas.
There is no way that we should have lost the electoral college to Trump. That we did tells us that the Democratic Party is way off the right track and needs reform. One of the reforms we need is doing away with super delegates. It's just one of many.
her anyways. Absolute proof of how utterly empty these attacks from the Revolution are. Your post #150 is sheer propaganda and just knee jerk criticism which you spam in an obvious effort to legitimize it. Your attacks are not well supported. This same tactic was used against Hillary, Biden, Feinstein and now super delegates, this one being a valued African American woman active in the party, which you say does not matter. Wow! 
All you have to do is type “big money” with no proof or substance and everyone just needs to roll over and accept your divisive labeling. Uh, no.
are very much appreciated. Those posts you referenced are getting more and more abstract. It’s a little scary to see that much effort into totally contrived talking points. Disturbing...
...with my wife. And yes, superdelegates are bad 
As others have noted. Is he big money elite establishment? That’s how you characterized super delegates..,
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Forget that she's a member of the DNC who was chosen by the members of Democratic Party of the state of New Hampshire.
Almost as funny as someone here a while back, when he learned that I once worked in the IT department of a New York bank, called me a "bankster"!
I have spent years, years in the trenches and my mother, who is in her 80s, has spent many more (and she still goes to weekly meetings). The fact that there is a contingent of people who don't want to reward party loyalists who've stayed with the party through all the ups and downs is bothersome to me.
While I naturally support efforts to bring in new blood - always - I do not and cannot support efforts to marginalize people who've provided decades of service to the Democrat party. I honor those who slog to ill-attended meetings in bad weather, who run as placeholders for a primary seat in elections they know they can't win, who've addressed thousand or millions of envelopes, who patiently listed to all comers running for office who want party endorsements, who've picked up a telephone with shaking hands to call on behalf of a candidate, who've knocked on doors, or circulated petitions. I honor those people, and I support efforts made by any party to do the same.
I dearly wish the GOP had super delegates, too, because they could have probably prevented a Trump nomination had a real functioning Republican worked hard to shore up support ahead of time and prevented the nonsense that went on (they could also ditch the winner-take-all system in some primaries while they're at it).
I strongly support a candidate's being able to make alliances and enter the field having created them, with some delegates in the bank, versus just swooping in as a latecomer - and sometimes not even a member of the party - thinking that you deserve to be handed a nomination on a platter.
But that won't stop some people.
Bernie was a superdelegate, so clearly no, not "all the superdelegates."
Only Democrats allowed to run in our Democratic primaries! 
If you're an independent, start your own freakin' party! 
A whole hell of a lot more than I realize! 
biting it hard.
Hopefully, the Democratic Party has learned from "the other aberration" in our 2016 presidential election cycle.
already have their own freaking party.. Indies
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But as Bernie said, "Independent presidential candidates don't have a chance." 
... Democrats ONLY (at least for 12 months)... and until the States get rid of caucuses and "open primaries" ... and until there's a party-wide (or nationwide) requirement that candidates must provide at least five years worth of complete tax returns (non-redacted, full-not summaries, no excuses, no exceptions.)
It seems the complaints about supers are based on one campaigns declaration of them being unfair
All that you said needs to be addressed long before the SD debate. Sad to see this being pushed as a real issue when we have far more issues that would protect our votes.
Seems to me that...hmm...never mind.
“Ironically, Tad Devine, Sanders’ top adviser, who was instrumental in the creation of the superdelegate process, defended their existence.
“It’s pretty hard to win a nomination in a contested race and almost impossible to win without the superdelegeates,” Devine said in 2008 in an interview on NPR."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/super-delegates-center-democratic-nomination-fight-again-n516891
“Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Sanders' campaign, was actually involved in the creation of superdelegates, as a way to get party officials more involved in selecting the Democratic nominee.
"That was always done with the understanding that the voters would determine the outcome of this process, and I think they'll do it this time," Devine said back in February when the superdelegate controversy was flaring up after the New Hampshire primary.”
