Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether

[LisaM]

205. I'll tell you why I support super delegates.

I have spent years, years in the trenches and my mother, who is in her 80s, has spent many more (and she still goes to weekly meetings). The fact that there is a contingent of people who don't want to reward party loyalists who've stayed with the party through all the ups and downs is bothersome to me.

While I naturally support efforts to bring in new blood - always - I do not and cannot support efforts to marginalize people who've provided decades of service to the Democrat party. I honor those who slog to ill-attended meetings in bad weather, who run as placeholders for a primary seat in elections they know they can't win, who've addressed thousand or millions of envelopes, who patiently listed to all comers running for office who want party endorsements, who've picked up a telephone with shaking hands to call on behalf of a candidate, who've knocked on doors, or circulated petitions. I honor those people, and I support efforts made by any party to do the same.

I dearly wish the GOP had super delegates, too, because they could have probably prevented a Trump nomination had a real functioning Republican worked hard to shore up support ahead of time and prevented the nonsense that went on (they could also ditch the winner-take-all system in some primaries while they're at it).

I strongly support a candidate's being able to make alliances and enter the field having created them, with some delegates in the bank, versus just swooping in as a latecomer - and sometimes not even a member of the party - thinking that you deserve to be handed a nomination on a platter.