Legal Commentary

The Super Delegate Count

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Speaking for me only

While it is true that Super Delegates can change their mind at any time up to the Convention, I have always supported counting the announced super delegates based on their stated public preference. Thus I think Chris Bowers' post on that is helpful. But I would be remiss if I did not note that Chris flip flopped on the issue of counting superdelegates:

Right now, with the exception of NBC news, most news outlets are counting super delegates in their running delegate total for the Democratic nomination. However, they should not be doing this, because it assumes something very negative about Democrats that has been consistently refuted by past Democratic nomination campaigns. Simply put, Democratic super delegates often change their minds, and have always lined up behind the popular vote winner in the primaries.

What is different now? Why counting super delegates is now beneficial to Obama. Sorry Chris, but it is pretty transparent what changed your mind. You were wrong in February (when your view on this was based on what was best for Obama) and the reason you are right now is because you see counting the SDs as favorable to Obama. This is what the blogs largely are now - the place to find out what benefits the candidate favored by those blogs. It is a shame.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 30, 2008 (boomark / email).