Democratic Superdelegates

Superdelegates may have hoped that they could wait to commit and simply ratify a majority already in place. It's now too late for that.

Lacking a clear route to the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee, the party's uncommitted superdelegates say they are growing increasingly ...

For weeks, the Barack Obama campaign has warned that Hillary Clinton would try to use her ties to the Democratic establishment to muscle 'super delega...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters _ straight to Barack Obama. In just the past two weeks, more than ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton must win 57 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates to erase Barack Obama's le...

The dwindling group of elected officials and party leaders publicly undecided in the Democratic presidential contest -- about 300 out of the 795 so-ca...

Not only is Hillary not out of this, but she may wind up ahead in both vote count and delegates. Combine that with the possible Edwards endorsement, and both sides will be switching their positions on superdelegates.

Whichever candidate you support, it is vital that the Democratic nominee be legitimate -- not the product of a backroom deal that looks like the 2000 Supreme Court decision.

"Doug, my man, glad I caught you, buddy! You've had your voicemail on the past few days. Hillary and I have been worried sick." "I told you to stop calling me." "What? That's a fairy tale."

The group launches a petition drive to keep super-delegates on the sidelines, calling on them "to let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama--and...

In a sign that the spin war over the significance of super-delegates is underway in earnest, Harold Ickes told assorted Hillary supporters on a privat...

Obama supporters are denouncing superdelegates as "party bosses" and Clinton supporters are insisting that Florida/Michigan delegates be seated based on those primaries' voters. Such appeals don't compute.

I'm kind of thankful for the superdelegates. It won't bother me if they decide things, because it's what they were designed to do. And, besides, they will probably be right.

I have talked to many Democratic SuperDelegates in the last few days and the one thing they all have in common -- they don't want to use their supervote.

With Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York nearly splitting the delegate count in the race for the Democratic nomination, par...

I expect, in fact, that Fowler's post has had the unintended effect of increasing both the number of worriers and the intensity of their worry.

The challenge is whether the recipients of the campaigns' love-bombs can turn the individual attention they're getting into something good and important for the country as a whole.

Howard Dean should solicit proxies from the 796 superdelegates to have him vote them for the candidate that wins the elected delegate count.

Let's start a grass-roots movement to help prevent the Democratic Party from once again self-destructing.

If the super-delegates' votes count so much more than regular voters, it just seems fair that they should take the will of their constituents into account when making their decisions.