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Dems move to sack superdelegates
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Dec 30, 2009 06:20pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democrats are moving to eliminate from the party's national convention the superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary.
Those superdelegates provided, for a time, a lifeline to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton's flagging campaign, and the effective end of their independent role would be a major step toward reshaping the Democratic Party — and its internal politics — in President Barack Obama's image.
A group created by the Democratic National Committee to examine the role of the superdelegates, the Democratic Change Commission — steered by the Obama campaign's top delegate counter, Jeff Berman — held a conference call Wednesday to recommend that these unpledged delegates cast their votes based upon the electoral results of their states rather than on personal preference. |
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