On the Fence
A Small Group of Superdelegates Could Close the Deal for Clinton—But Won’t
In the interest of unity and fairness, a small group of crucial voters are staying on the sideline until more votes are cast.
Bernie Sanders Makes His Case to Superdelegates
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Jason Rae learned about the pressures of being a superdelegate in 2008. Back then, he was just a 21-year-old junior in college—the youngest elected member of the Democratic National Committee—and strangers would corner him in public to berate him about his decision to back Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton before voters in every primary had cast their ballots.
Eight years later, Rae is taking a different tack. In this final stretch of the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination process, he is among a shrinking number of superdelegates—party members and office-holders not bound by primary results to any candidate—who have yet to choose between Clinton and Bernie Sanders.