Reply #4: I always understood the reason. [View All]

[damntexdem]

I was a McGovern delegate to my state party convention in 1972. At my caucus, had one of us not stepped down, the country Dem chair would not have been a delegate. I was very upset that one of us stepped down and let the bastard become a delegate. In the subsequent campaign, he did what he could to undermine not just McGovern but also other progressive Dems. The hacks want free tickets to the conventions, without having to bother to get enough supporters to caucuses and district meetings to ensure their places.

It's time to change the terminology: they're not super delegates, they're inferior delegates.