Democratic Superdelegates Just Got a Little Less Super
But at least the party was wise enough to keep this important role.
It’s a good thing that a few folks in the crowd can vote by different rules.
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While the Democrats haven’t finalized their rules changes for the 2020 presidential nomination contest, it appears that they’ve worked out a compromise to save the superdelegates, to be adopted when the full Democratic National Committee meets in a few days.
We are talking here about the automatic convention delegates who get slots because of the positions they hold and not because they were elected as part of the nomination process — and, unlike the bulk of the delegates, are not committed to vote for any candidate unless they choose to do so. The proposed arrangement is to keep the supers, but take away their votes on the first ballot unless a candidate already has a majority.