Comments on: Analysis: Dems' Dilemma Over Fla., Mich.

Washington Post: Growing Urgency To Deal With Delegates From States Sanctioned For Holding Early Primaries

[katg21]

What''s a "Super Delegate"?

"Voters don%u2019t choose the 842 unpledged %u201Csuper-delegates%u201D who comprise nearly 40 percent of the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
The category includes Democratic governors and members of Congress, former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former vice president Al Gore, retired congressional leaders such as *** Gephardt, and all Democratic National Committee members, some of whom are appointed by party chairman Howard Dean.
The Republicans do not have a similar super-delegate system.
These super-delegates don%u2019t have superhuman powers, but unlike rank-and-file Democrats, they do automatically get to cast a vote at the convention to decide who the party%u2019s nominee will be.
Although dubbed %u201Cunpledged%u201D in Democratic Party lingo, the super-delegates are free to come out before their state%u2019s primary and pledge to support one of the presidential contenders." MSNBC

Dems, do your votes really matter?

[antoniof123]

Who cares you morons really think you have any control. You are all just pawns and if they refuse to count Florida and they won''t they will come to some farce and count the votes. But in the event that they refuse so what is Florida or Michagin going to with hold something from them maybe money or maybe not vote. Fat chance it is an illusion and the wing nuts on all sites are easy to get their blood boiling because you just have to say something bad about their favorite canidate.

[katg21]

How is it you know so much about what "terrorists want"?

HMMMM?!
Posted by gkc99

Saw it on the news, shame you weren''t watching. Oh, that''s right, it was on Fox News and you on the left refuse to watch it.

[jack3213]

Makes no matter if they cover up the campaining with gender, race, attitude, or jargon, what matters is that people of all walks of life STOP and realize that the USA needs a LEADER not a Manager. The USA needs experiance and qualifications, not by association or on the job training. It is paramount to realize that those who promise you the moon are lying to you or they would have given it to you by now. Wake UP

[mikeant50]

kevinbeiser,

Apparently you are a Clinton groupie who will do anything to see Hillary get the nomination.

[ringading3]

Consider the Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour as the Republican Vice Presidental Nominee! He is a winner!

[ringading3]

One person, one vote is only in the Republican Party. The Democrats have created "Super Delegates" that ensure the party hacks choose the nominee, no matter how the rank and file votes.

[ringading3]

The SUPER DELEGATES have determined who is the Democratic nominee already! The Party of the Masses is a fraud. And they are tearing themselves and the country apart with their sexist and racial brawls.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

It is also in my view false to say that life in AMERICA today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a CONDITION is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that people should CREATE the conditions for CHANGE in this state of affairs.

We know by the charisma who said this!

Answer

Hit-lers quote Jan 27 1932

[walkingbrit]

The mess left by the DNC is only a part of the problem. There are deep divisions emerging because superdelegates still trample on the influence of registered democrats.

Further division occurs because whilst some primaries offer a secret ballot to registered democrat voters others pretty much allow any Tom, *** or Harry to wander in and influence the process.

Then there is a caucus, a process that fails to meet even the minimum standards for a fair election by UN standards. A few thousand (or hundred) get to decide how anything up to 1.5 million might have voted had they been given an opportunity.

The democratic process has always been underpinned by the ballot box and a secret ballot. The first step needed by the Democratic Party is to adopt a secret ballot for all primaries and for these to be open only to registered Democrats. At least then everyone who is a registered Democrat has a say.
It is clearly too late to do that for this election, but it would mean that the Democratic Party no longer looked like a rather dumb bunch of adults who can''t even agree what democracy is about.