Democrats Are Considering Dropping Superdelegates Altogether

[Gothmog]

329. Your posts show that you have no idea as to how the process works in the real world

No grassroots voter get to vote for any delegates to the national convention in almost all states. I have been through the process and helped two other people go through the process in 2008 and 2012. No national delegate is elected by any grass roots voter in the real world. The primary vote is used to allocate delegates between the candidates in almost all states. In the few states that you vote for delegates, those delegates still have to go to their state convention to select the eventual national delegates. There is no state where grassroots voters vote for national delegates in the real world. I hate to break it to you but my election as a national delegate in our senate district caucus was helped by my county cutting a deal with another county where we supported their National Convention candidate and that county supported our two National Convention candidates.

You seem to object to money playing a role. The fact that I was a maxed out donor helped me in my campaign to be elected a delegate. In most states, a significant portion of the national delegates are not selected by caucuses but by the at large process. The people selected by the at large nominations committee tend to be major donors or state party officials who were not super delegates. I sat next to a state senator and a state court district judge at the national convention. Texas had 12 state Senators who were democrats and all 12 were selected as national delegates. One of these state senators will likely be one of two new Latina congresswomen from the state of Texas. The at large nominations committee also selected a number of major donors.

The process does not involve grass roots voters every voting for a delegate. At best the grass roots voters determine the allocation of the delegates and the actual delegates are selected in a long process where it helps to be an elected official or to be a major donor.

I know how the process works because I actually attend state conventions and work inside the process.