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If primary campaign strategy is any indication, the U.S. presidential election is far less democratic that it pretends to be. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama began their bids with months of fundraising and media spin, and it seems now that they will end it by soliciting votes from party elites...
But until this year, nobody much cared about the superdelegates. They were superfluous. A nominee can win-and usually does-without the vote of a single superdelegate. Since the inception of superdelegates, no race has ever been as close as this year's contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...
But Professor Kenney points out that ordinary voters aren't the only ones who might be swept up by Obama fever. There are also the nearly 800 super-delegates to the Democratic convention - party officials and elected leaders who are free to vote as they choose. "I think as the...
In addition to superdelegates, there are not-so-super, regular “delegates.” These are the John Does and Jane Smiths whom Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been publicly battling for across the country. Votes are collected in Democratic caucuses and primaries and candidates are...
Let’s break that number down: a magic majority of 2,025 means that there are 4,049 total votes, 3,253 of which are “delegates”—awarded by popular voting—and 796 of which are ?...