Reply #20: Mondale and Dukakis weren't winners so they were whiners?

[Hart2008]

Teddy Kennedy and other party insiders were pushing Dukakis in '88. What a farce he was, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hart won 26 primaries in '84, including California, Florida and Ohio, and unlike Mondale, actually led Reagan in some polls. Jackson won a few primaries too. Mondale had less pledged delegates than Hart and Jackson combined, but due to the new superdelegate system won the nomination. Mondale received almost every one of the 560 superdelegates.

Mondale went on to lose 49 states in the largest Electoral defeat in U.S. history. The Dem's in '84 also failed to recapture the Senate, despite many Repukes up for reelection.

Now some people here think that the superdelegates should find another Mondale type candidate and lose 49 or so states again.

Do we really want to go down that road again?

Why is this such a wonderful system?