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Superdelegate Question for Obama Supporters [w/ poll]

Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 02:47:23 PM PDT

The has certainly been a lot of concern registered on this blog and in the media in general about the role of the superdelegates in the Democrats nominating process.

MoveOn summarizes the concern:

"The Democratic Party must be democratic. The superdelegates should let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama, then support the people's choice."

So here's the question (please bear with me):

Let's say that Obama wins pledged delegates by a small margin. Something under 50 delegates. Florida and Michigan combined would have had 366 delegates. If the superdelegates believe that Clinton would have gotten more than a 50 delegate advantage out of these states, giving Clinton the lead in pledged delegates, should they then vote to give the nomination to Clinton?

To be clear. I am not talking about counting the current MI and FL results since the voting process was flawed.

What I am talking about is the opinion of the superdelegate. If they thought counting the real will of FL and MI voters would give the pledged delegate lead to Clinton? If it was believed by that superdelegate that Clinton would have won the most pledged delegates if FL and MI were counted, should that superdelegate [independent of their personal preference] vote to make Hillary the nominee?

Poll

If they thought counting FL and MI would give lead in pledged delegates to Clinton:

28%37 votes
71%94 votes

| 131 votes | Vote | Results

Tags: superdelegates, hillary clinton, barack obama, florida, michigan (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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