There is a compromise amendment to get rid of 2/3 of superdelegates

[LongTomH]

From Josh Fox @joshfoxfilm

https://twitter.com/joshfoxfilm/status/756999090689417216

There is a unity amendment in front of the rules committee which would establish a commission that could abolish 2/3rd of Super Dels. #dnc

Those remaining would be elected officials.

[MohRokTah]

1. FUCK NO!!!!!

Four words.

TRUMP WAS A DEMOCRAT!

[merrily]

3. And could have been a super delegate if he had been more generous.

The slot is a reward to large donors--as if they don't already buy enough influence.

Personally, I prefer democracy to the plutonomy.

[moriah]

7. Or, you know, people who have worked for the Party...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Shackelford

One of Arkansas's SDs. Yes, as her personal finances grew she donated more, but it was her dedication, not her money, that got her spot.

[yeoman6987]

10. The only change I would make is that be unable to endorse any candidate until

The convention. Starting with 400 delegates is a tough road to over come for challengers.

[MohRokTah]

12. Obama sure overcame it in 2008. eom

[yeoman6987]

13. Had superdelegates not changed their minds, he may not have.

[MohRokTah]

15. You misremember.

The super delegates switched after he had locked it up.

[yeoman6987]

17. I definitely am mistaken then. Thank you for the important facts

[MichiganVote]

2. Because one candidate over how many years lost the primary? Don't think so.

[merrily]

4. No, because it's undemocratic. I've criticized the institution since I learned of its existence,

years before Bernie ran for the POTUS nom.

[MichiganVote]

5. However a political party is not a democracy. Never has been.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. A political Party with plunging turnout needs to ask itself why that is and act accordingly.

Voters do not have to take part and anyone who can read knows that most Americans are already making that choice. I'd say that telling voters elections are not democracy is exactly the sort of thing that encourages people to avoid participation, why would they bother when those inside the system announce openly that it is not democratic and is in fact rigged?

[Hortensis]

19. Right wing anti-government propaganda pushing

the message that it's all corrupt is the biggest reason for plunging turnout for both parties.

Imo, making being elected to office by citizens a qualification for being a superdelegate would be a big democratizing move. Not direct democracy, of course, and parties are NOT democracies, but that way no one who had never actually been approved by voters could be a superdelegate.

The 2/3 is a question. The number, perhaps combined with other safeguards, needs to be sufficient to have some reasonable chance of blocking a toxic candidacy.

[LongTomH]

20. +1000 Bernie did win, at least, 45% of the votes in this primary.

In a close election, you should not alienate a major portion portion of your electorate.

[MichiganVote]

21. It has been repeated ad nauseam that he did not win the primary

and that it was not because of the super delegate vote alone. That was not because of bias, that was because people did vote for another candidate. You can argue this forever but so far as I am aware, over 90% of dem. voters now intend to vote for the Clinton/Kaine ticket. That percent is inclusive of so called 'Bernie supporters'.

What you seem to want is a one vote system. However I don't believe that the Sanders group, if in fact that's who they are, will get it.

[yallerdawg]

6. Each state needs to move to closed Democratic primaries (the Sanders Rule).

One function of party faithful superdelegates was to help offset possible independent and crossover Republican disruption in our party primaries and caucuses.

They have never been needed, and have always voted for the Democratic nominee out of the popular national vote/bound delegates.

Making all delegates bound by open popular vote would be the end of the Democratic Party. Which has a lot of support - from independents and Republicans.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. My State has a closed Primary, Bernie won it and all I hear on DU is that this State is not

'Real Democrats' because we voted for Bernie. They say this repeatedly. About millions of Democrats. So closed primaries do not please those who are just upset that other people vote differently than they do.

[yallerdawg]

11. So let's just please you.

My state has open primaries, and we picked Hillary in a landslide.

What I'm talking about is the purpose of superdelegates.

[glennward]

14. Definitely we should have CLosed primaries. Be involved enough to join and work for a party OR

sit on the sidelines and whine.

[AgadorSparticus]

18. +1,000.

[bigwillq]

16. Cool

I support getting rid of all SDs and let the people decide entirely.