Here is an in-house fight I think most DUers would agree on - get rid of Super Delagates!

[TomSlick]

180. I've been trying to think of how I would design the system if we could start over.

The first step would be to frame the goal of the presidential nominating system. Okay, that's easy, we want to nominate a candidate with the best chance of winning the general election.

So, how do we accomplish the goal? Seems to me that we need to design a system that would result in a nominee who will get the most electoral college votes. The country divides more or less into three categories: (1) blue States, (2) purple States, and (3) red States. The goal has to be to get out the vote in the blue and purple States. We do that by nominating a candidate that will get the support of the blue and purple States.

Folks like me living in red States, we're just spectators or at best voices crying in the wilderness. It doesn't make sense to worry about who Democrats like me in deep red States voted for in the primary. There simple ain't no way in hell, the Democratic candidate is getting the electoral votes from Arkansas.

So, how do we weight the system so that we nominate a candidate that will appeal to the blue and purple States? We can weight the system by giving blue and purple States more delegates than red States - instead of basing the number of delegates based simple population, we allot more delegates to blue and purple States.

I have an idea. States that elect Democrats to high public office - that have shown their bona fides as blue or purple States - get an extra delegate for each Democrat in public office. Each Democrat elected to State-wide office, e.g. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, etc., and every Democratic US Representative and every Democratic US Senator would get to be delegate. Since they are delegates because of their office, we could call then ex officio delegates but that sounds kinda snooty. I'd call them super delegates.

So that folks like me in deep red States like me don't feel too much like skunks at the picnic, we'll give every State some super delegates - like State party chairs. But the States that will decide the general election, they'll get the most super delegates.

What do you think?