2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Congressional Black Caucus objects to eliminating super delegates. Why? [View all]pnwmom
(109,054 posts)to go to court in 1988, in defiance of the will of the voters, to overturn the referendum we worked to pass, which was supposed to replace the caucuses with the primary. You're worried about disenfranchising voters -- this is exactly what happened when they overruled the voters on having a primary. They disenfranchised the state's voters and replaced the will of the voters with their own.
I don't care how long the party has used caucuses instead-- it was wrong then and it's wrong now.
Many people can't get to the caucuses for one reason or another and they are closed out of the system. Others want a secret ballot and not to have to sit for hours arguing issues with their neighbors. The system is unrepresentative, not inclusive, and unfair.
So, knowing this, the super delegates chose to side with the voters who participated in the primaries -- three times as many as those who went to the caucuses. And good for them. Thanks to the supers, a state whose primary voters chose Hillary has a less lopsided delegate count for Bernie than it otherwise would.