Tuesday, February 26th, 2008...4:58 pm
Metaphor Free Post
I just got an e-mail from Ed Espinoza, a friend that I met through the Young Democrats (I think neither of us qualify for membership now). He’s a for-real-honest-to-God superdelegate. At the last convention, he was wearing a day-glo vest. I don’t know if this was because of his superdelegateness, or if it was for some other reason.
Anyway, Ed wrote an article for Politico about superdelegates. There has been some mythology going on about these folks. People think that they will vote en masse for one candidate or the other, which it should be pretty obvious by now that that ain’t gonna happen. There are some people who seem to believe that an individual superdelegate some how has more votes than a regular delegate elected out of Prescott or Seattle (although, they do have more votes than one elected out of Tallahasse). The other thing that people don’t realize is that although these delegates aren’t elected in the normal delegate selection process, they are mostly either elected officials (who have to face voters) or party leaders (who need the support of party activists) so are subject to some form popular opinion.
NB - Ed, transparency is not a mutant power. The only major Marvel character I can think of that can become transparent is Sue Storm, who acquired her powers from cosmic rays.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 am
Thanks for the kind words, Ted. Yes it is true, we super delegates are not in fact conspiring to thwart the nomination process! Really, we’re just as interested in seeing it play out as the voters are. And for the record, believe it or not, I’m still actually a Young Democrat! And a google search of “Marvel Comics” and “transparency” and I got the same result you did. Long live the Fantastic Four…
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