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Originally Posted by simonsays
No. Superdelegates who 'change their mind' would be committing career suicide. Especially with an institutional superpower like Clinton. Remember how haunting the words 'flip flop' were in the last Presidential election?
Anyways with McCain running away with the GOP candidacy I'm not so certain how important it is that the good guys (Dems) win this one. I fear that an Obama White House would be a neutered Camelot, and a Hillery win would (if possible) make politics in the US even more partisan.
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Historically, superdelegates
have changed their minds, and in a primary that although it's close isn't really all that rancorous, I can't see a superdelegate continuing to support a doomed candidate at the convention. They typically vote for whoever will win. If it's close, they'll be the deciding factor, and the dems would be wise to avoid the optics of the "smoke filled room" that this would create.
Not sure what John Kerry's supposed "flip-flopping" has to do with delegates to a convention, especially since most Americans don't even know who these people are. Also--I think the "neutered Camelot" business is very much overstated. Obama isn't really much like Kennedy, though I realize that's a handy comparison for the media to make. Both men are/were good speakers--the similarities kind of end there.