I always tagged along for the free golf cart driving and soda. And then eventually beer. But mostly the golf carts.

Seriously. When I was a kid, my dad would get an invite from the top muckity muck of his company for a weekend at the dude’s private golf course. My younger sibling and I LOVED going there. We HATED golf but my god, driving your parents around in golf carts, popping open a cold can of soda, and rocking out to DMB on…

I was going to be so disappointed if I didn’t see this at least once. Well done, sir.

100% yes. I don’t want people like Warren as Presidents. I want them in Congress legislating us into the 22nd century.

I mean, the parkway south of exit 120 is actually quite lovely.

I went to school near Hyde Park and used to find any excuse to hang out at the Vanderbilt estate. Hooray for free national parks with gorgeous old houses, rolling land, and cool rose gardens!

Got it. Yeah, that certainly seems to be the gist of things (though the fact that RFK was assassinated and had the 2nd most delegates up to that point also helped make a mess of things).

I mean, they technically have superdelegates in the sense that they’re not regular pledged delegates. But for all intents and purposes, they don’t really function any differently since they must back whoever wins the state. Sort of seems unnecessarily repetitive, you know?

I only know as much about the ‘68 election as Wikipedia tells me, but it seems unlikely that we can point to super delegates in particular for that debacle because they weren’t created as a part of the aparatus until 1982.

Yeah, I mean not Bernie specifically as a person, but if you think about it, it makes total sense. The dude has never been a Dem until he wanted to use their political capital to gain momentum in a Presidential run. He doesn’t fundraise for the DNC, he actively criticises them for their more centrist positions, he…

Aw dang, no, I think I meant to reply to the other kinja who replied to you. Monday morning Kinja’d!

Both things can be true. I also took issue with the author’s insistence that Carol was never a stone cold killer. I can think of literally like 3 times off the top of my head when she was. Sure, her kills were always “justified”, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still stone cold kills. Her story is still a kick ass…

Yes, that is generally how majorities work, my friend. Let’s also point out that we’re not talking about a 2% lead here. If Clinton was only ahead of Sanders by 2%, then I would agree that it would be specious of 94% of the super delegates to support one candidate over the other. But that’s not the reality in which we…

It is absolutely necessary, I agree. I also, however, understand that for our government to be fixed of this particular evil, we have to get people who share our goals elected. While hypocrtical, I don’t see a problem with using the current system - injustices and all - to get the right people elected who have the…

That’s great! Sanders is attracting a massive chunk of new voters who have never been engaged in the system before. It would be wonderful if his candidacy, if nothing else, inspired them to become active in their local governments.

Wat? No, the superdelegates are clearly backing the will of the people because 2.5 million more of them are supporting Clinton over Sanders. Their support is not directly proportionate to the voting splits among candidates - they support the majority victor. Period. Never in their existance have they not supported the…

I think this distinction is key. I also think it’s great that people that have a problem with this are so vocal about it, because this is an issue that needs to be fixed in our system. We know that President Obama is not going to make any changes to it, not with Congress the way it is now. We can hope that a Dem…

Jesus, it literally is the tea party all over again.

A FB friend of mine advised of 2 good reasons: 1) a Trump-like candidate who is clearly bad for the party can be countered by party super delegates; and 2) In open primary states, superdelegates can be used as a counter to non-party voters hoping to mess with the results.

1) No, because she has consistently supported down ticket Dems even when she lost in ‘08 and when she wasn’t running at all. Against the in vogue idea of bashing her as a woman with no principles, I think hers are pretty clearly aligned with getting other Dems elected because it’s the right thing to do for the party…