Politics

Democratic Superdelegates: How the Party Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Its Voters

FLASHBACK

Ex-officio delegates serve as a prophylactic against another amnesty, abortion, and acid campaign.

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The main thing to know about superdelegates is that Republicans don’t have them—which they’re regretting as the Trump train comes crashing down the tracks.

The Democratic Party created its firewall of “ex-officio delegates” as a hedge against the kind of electoral disaster the party suffered in 1972 when candidate George McGovern...

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