DNC Votes To Largely Strip 'Superdelegates' Of Presidential Nominating Power

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74. Representative Democracy is a process of filtering and measuring, over time

Back in the 60s and 70s and even the 80s, you learned a lot about candidates after 6 months of political tests. Superdelegates are part of those who must be convinced, and they protect the party and the country from fringe candidates who either can't win, or are far from the political mainstream and mores.

We gain nothing by ditching superdelegates. Or by loading the primaries into 2 months with states vying for importance by being bigger and going first. In fact I'd almost say we're better off if the bigger states are loaded into the last 3 months, randomly, to settle the contest after the candidates have shown their hand for several months.

Maybe superdelegates could be partly chosen along the way, instead of pledged insiders from the start.