The Supers and the Democrats!

[JackLuis]

We talk about them all the time but why were they injected into the process? This article explains.

Since its launch, a specter has haunted Bernie Sanders’ run for the Democratic nomination. It’s not his age, though at 74 he would be the oldest president in American history. And it’s not that he’s an avowed socialist, the label that a mere eight years ago was used to smear Barack Obama as a sinister, alien threat to the American way of life. Rather, it has been the so-called superdelegates—the 712 Democratic Party insiders who are free to vote at the nominating convention for the candidate of their choosing.

Prior to 1970, the nominating process had been anything but democratic. Primaries, introduced at the turn of the century, were few and non-binding. Party members had carte blanche to select the candidate at the convention. At the 1968 Democratic convention, the pro-Vietnam War candidate Hubert Humphrey won the nomination over antiwar Sen. Eugene McCarthy by courting party honchos, having not run in a single primary—meanwhile, McCarthy had won more primaries than any other candidate.

Humphrey’s win outraged McCarthy supporters and exacerbated the split between pro- and antiwar camps. Fistfights broke out on the convention floor while police clubbed and teargassed protesters outside.

From this losing cluster fuck the Supers arose! Philadelphia may be another Chicago!

 

[Boxlicker101]

We talk about them all the time but why were they injected into the process? This article explains.


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Since its launch, a specter has haunted Bernie Sanders’ run for the Democratic nomination. It’s not his age, though at 74 he would be the oldest president in American history. And it’s not that he’s an avowed socialist, the label that a mere eight years ago was used to smear Barack Obama as a sinister, alien threat to the American way of life. Rather, it has been the so-called superdelegates—the 712 Democratic Party insiders who are free to vote at the nominating convention for the candidate of their choosing.

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Prior to 1970, the nominating process had been anything but democratic. Primaries, introduced at the turn of the century, were few and non-binding. Party members had carte blanche to select the candidate at the convention. At the 1968 Democratic convention, the pro-Vietnam War candidate Hubert Humphrey won the nomination over antiwar Sen. Eugene McCarthy by courting party honchos, having not run in a single primary—meanwhile, McCarthy had won more primaries than any other candidate.

Humphrey’s win outraged McCarthy supporters and exacerbated the split between pro- and antiwar camps. Fistfights broke out on the convention floor while police clubbed and teargassed protesters outside.

From this losing cluster fuck the Supers arose! Philadelphia may be another Chicago!

Humphrey was VP under LBJ and loyalty prevented him from running in primaries until Johnson, surprisingly, announced he would not run for reelection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_1968

HHH was the choice of the party base and was seen by Dem. biggies as the most electable candidate, after RFK was murdered.

You may refer to "demonstrators" in Chicago. I would call them rioters. I well remember seeing in The Berkeley Barb exhortations to go Chicago and disrupt the convention. I also remember reading about the trials of those who did so.

As an aside, in 1972, McGovern won primary elections and the nomination, with minimal super delegates involved. He then lost to the unpopular incumbent, Nixon, in the biggest landslide in history.

 

[JackLuis]

Humphrey was VP under LBJ and loyalty prevented him from running in primaries until Johnson, surprisingly, announced he would not run for reelection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_1968

HHH was the choice of the party base and was seen by Dem. biggies as the most electable candidate, after RFK was murdered.

You may refer to "demonstrators" in Chicago. I would call them rioters. I well remember seeing in The Berkeley Barb exhortations to go Chicago and disrupt the convention. I also remember reading about the trials of those who did so.

As an aside, in 1972, McGovern won primary elections and the nomination, with minimal super delegates involved. He then lost to the unpopular incumbent, Nixon, in the biggest landslide in history.

While none of what you say is false, Box. It is not what the cited article was about. Did you read it?