[originalbuckeye]

You would think the run-of-the-mill Democrats would be outraged by the apportioning of ‘superdelegates’ before the voting even starts. But I suspect most Democrats are unaware of this abrogation of the individual voter’s power.

[TontoKowalski]

I completely agree. However, the Republican Party also has superdelegates. Following from Wikipedia (yeah, I acknowledge not a scholarly source, but good enough for this discussion):

For Republicans, there are generally 3 unpledged delegates in each state, consisting of the state chairman and two RNC committee members.

A common criticism is that unpledged delegates could potentially swing the results to nominate a candidate that did not receive the majority of votes during the primaries.