SUPER DELEGATES - explained. Hillary can still get the nomination.
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Date: 2008-05-08, 10:09AM CDT
Despite what "Faux"News or "A Mess"NBC might be saying about the Democratic primaries, Hillary can still get the nomination. Neither Obama nor Clinton can get the 2025 pleged delegates to win the nomination at this point so it is up to the Super Delegates to decide this race at the convention in Denver.
Here is an explaination from AboutDotCom.
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Rationale For Super-Delegates
The Democratic Party established this system in part in response to the nomination of George McGovern in 1972. McGovern took only one state and had only 37.5 percent of the popular vote. Then in 1976, Jimmy Carter was a dark-horse candidate with little national experience. Super-delegates were implemented in 1984.
Super-delegates are designed to act as a check on ideologically extreme or inexperienced candidates. It also gives power to people who have a vested interested in party policies: elected leaders. Because the primary and caucus voters do not have to be active members of the party (in New Hampshire they can sign up and sign out going-and-coming at the polls), the super-delegate system has been called a safety-value.
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