Dan Abrams: Super Delegates Super Scam Mar. 6, 2008

[groovychk]

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It is time to eliminate super-delegates. They are completely anti-democratic. Party cronyism.
Nice to see someone in the media that agrees.

Comments

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but I also want to see election by direct popular vote. I mean, I think we can do it and the only reason I heard not to is because 200 years ago it was hard.

Seriously, though... is there any right way to count votes that isn't direct and popular?

I want to spread democracy to the United States.

And let's kill the two-party thing, too.

And why we keep seeing razor-thin margins on these elections? Things don't balance out like that accidentally. Must be a strange attractor in the system.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Well – as far as the parties go – they could get more democratic in their process. Eliminating super-delegates is the best way to start.
But delegates are like electors in a way – I don’t have a problem with that.
We need them because we are not just a federal system – we are a confederation of states. And for each state to be represented equally we need electors and delegates. Just like representatives. Straight popular vote would give way too much power to the big states.
I agree on the margins. Interesting isn’t it.

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

Agreed re super-delegates. Simple is good, smoke-filled rooms are bad, mkay?

I sometimes forget about the confederation bit. The federal part is so powerful in ways it seems that all the states are erased. Were that true, direct popular vote would be correct... but it isn't. Hmm.

Perhaps the solution would be to cripple the federal part and restore states' rights, but states shouldn't have rights - people should, and states will piss on human rights just as soon as anyone else.

Bush vs Gore, Bush vs Kerry, Obama vs Clinton (I'll shave my eyebrows if McCain wins this one) that's 3 times in less than a decade? Something feels fishy; improbable coincidence. But why? No idea.