2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Superdelegates do not have to listen to the Voters in their States [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)candidate nominated by the people in the primary process. I think they generally do so for the reasons I have explained.
People yap about the superdelegates every cycle, few understand how it words and a quick review of opinions on them from 2008 will of course demonstrate great reversals of opinion because in 2008 it was Obama challenging her massive Superdelegate lead. There is lots of material from Obama and his staff stating that the winner of the primary allotted delegates should be the nominee. Obama said "The American people are tired of politics that is dominated by the powerful, by the connected."
I agree with Obama.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/23/uselections2008.barackobama
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/obama-memo-to-superdelegates/