17. The reason we have superdelegates is, in part, because
Edited on Mon Apr-28-08 10:47 PM by Zodiak Ironfist
...when pledged delegates are the only ones that are allowed, a number of elected officials do not get to go to convention. Establishing the superdelgate system pretty much ensures that every elected Democrat at the state level who wants to go gets to go.
That in addition to the fact that elected officials are great at writing their own elitist rules in reaction to an election loss in which they were clueless as to the reasons for said loss.
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