Un-Super Delegates?

This year, superdelegates, Democratic party leaders and elected officials with votes in the nominating process not tied to any popular voting whatsoever, unintentionally shifted the debate about election reform from the nuts-and-bolts of our voting systems, to our party system. Even some of the higher-ups within the Democratic party, including Al Gore and at least one of those who crafted the present-day Democratic Party nominating system, were taking a second look.

In February, for Why Tuesday?, Soapbox vlogger Jacob Soboroff met with political consultant Tad Devine, who describes himself as "one of the driving forces behind the modern rules and delegate system."

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