Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether

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71. Exactly, protection against a disastrous Trump event.

Also, although our superdelegates have always supported the will of the majority, in 2016 a candidate our voters had decided against asked the superdelegates to overthrow the majority choice and appoint the candidate. This scheme had 0% chance of succeeding, of course, but that someone might even try it was alarming.

Those are two sides of the same coin, of course. How to give party leaders some control against Trumps without having too much more power than the party electorate?

We have some good people who are supporting some needed changes. This is not all about minority factions trying to create a path to victory over the wishes of the majority, and there are some sensible things we can do.

Last I had heard, DNC members, party officeholders and leaders would still get to attend the convention as voting delegates. But the DNC members would have to vote for whatever candidate their own states chose, thus substantially reducing the number of superdelegates. Thus, the 2016 scheme would be even less possible.