@knifehorse well yeah like the EC it's a kludge to make an undemocratic system democratic
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@knifehorse originally the state parties just sent actual delegates who actually had the power to decide
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@knifehorse "superdelegates" are a result of the Democrata auto-giving delegate status to existing elected officials
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@knifehorse so when they started making delegates "pledge" to obey their states' voters the existing elected officials weren't included
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@knifehorse technically you could still call it "democratic" bc superdelegates all had to be elected to a position by Democrats
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