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  • Superdelegates And The 17th Amendment

    02/18/2008 2:30:51 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 17 replies · 234+ views
    The Liberty Papers ^ | February 18, 2008 | Brad Warbiany
    The Democratic Party is finding itself in a very strange position. They’re approaching a potential situation where neither of their candidates have enough elected delegates to secure the nomination, and the race will turn to the superdelegates to decide. Primary results can then be trumped by the say-so of the “party elites”. Thus, the party who complained that Al Gore “really won” the 2000 election due to the popular vote may nominate Hillary Clinton, who now looks unlikely to win the national Democrat popular vote or the elected delegate count. The schadenfreude of watching the Democratic Party put into a...