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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Plan to Name Lobbyists, Operatives as Superdelegates [View all]Demsrule86
(70,663 posts)exceptions including 2016. They do serve a purpose...and are there in case of an emergency to prevent litigation if say a candidate refused to concede...etc. or the GOP had a successful operation chaos operation. They do not provide any momentum...the primary is all important...the Supers vote with the winning candidate. We don't have a winner takes all in many cases so the winning candidate may fall short of the totality of delegates needed...thus the Supers vote with the winning candidate and put him/her over the top. It has been our method for many years. I think it works just fine.The other candidate you refer to no doubt was way behind from the beginning and not chance. Blaming supers for that is just foolish...oddly enough they never became an issue until 16 and 08 was much closer. You run a primary...someone wins and someone loses...that is how it works.