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"Democratic superdelegates may have the legal right to thwart the will of Democratic primary voters and caucus goers..."

By Ann Althouse

"... but they do no not have the moral right to do so," writes Chris Bowers, threatening ? like Donna Brazile ? to quit the party if the superdelegates determine the nominee. What's morally wrong with following the rules that everyone knew all along? Parties aren't morally obligated to use a purely democratic approach to picking a nominee. The Democrats set up a system with some delegates who were there because of their position in the party and not as representatives of people who voted in primaries or caucused. They were authorized to exercise their independent judgment about who the party should nominate, in what looks like a check on freewheeling democracy. Why should they now be told to subordinate their independent judgment?

Full post as published by Althouse on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).