 |
Add to My Group
Will SuperDuper Delegates Change The Race?
By Rob Kall (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer
What makes a person a super duper delegate? Simple. A super duper delegate's vote is worth two votes.
This is not a category the DNC has created.
It's a category that is awkward, that can and will cause discomfort and epithets.
But it is very likely that this mutated form of superdelegate will probably begin to become more common in the coming days.
One might speculate that they will come out "for the sake of the party," but I think they'll do it because timing is everything.
As Obama takes the reins, running the Democratic party, as its presidential nominee, Clinton backers will inevitably lose power and fall in status.
Some of the superdelegates backing Clinton, seeing the writing on the wall, will jump ship and move to Obama. Already, some superdelegates have become super duper delegates, taking the leap, virtually giving two advantage points to Obama-- Joe Andrew, former DNC chair, rep. John Lewis, of Atlanta, and Nancy Larson, a Minnesota DNC member.
Becoming a super duper delegate will not be easy. The Clintons-- Hillary, Bill, Chelsea, have made sure of that. The Clinton supporters who leave the fold have been coddled and regularly attended to. But the floodgates have been opened. Sure, there are a lot of superdelegates waiting in the wings for the last primary vote to be cast June.
But there will be some superdelegates who metamorphose into super duper delegates because they have had enough of the Clinton strategists' scorched earth tactics. There will be some who do the switch because they believe it will position them better politically in the new DNC Obama firmament's hierarchy.
There will be some super duper delegates who declare for Obama because they think the time has come to end the internecine conflict in the Democratic party... or at least that's what they'll say.
One thing that is very, VERY unlikely, that we have not seen at all, will be superdelegates going in the opposite direction, becoming super duper delegates for Hillary.
Today, Hillary holds a 14 superdelegate lead. My guess is in the coming days, Obama will overtake Hillary. He'll do it with the help of superdelegates who finally declare, but also, with the help of the super duper delegates. Each announcement by a super duper delegate will be a body slam to the Clinton campaign, but also a source of gathering momentum for the Democratic presidential nominee.
It may just turn out that the superdelegates who waited actually lost their opportunity to make the big splash, to maximize the influence of their decision. If just eight or ten superdelegates make the leap, Obama will take away the lead from the last significant numeric bastion Hillary held.
At some point, the Democratic party will have to come together. 
1 | 2
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, (more...)
The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
 Contact Author |
Contact Editor |
 View Authors' Articles |
$90.00
Lowest New Price $77.41
Number of pages: 266
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
$80.00
Lowest New Price $68.93
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
by Dennis Keegan
$27.95
Lowest New Price $8.28
Number of pages: 245
Publisher: Regnery Press
by CQ Press
$59.00
Number of pages: 417
Publisher: CQ Press
| 7 comments |
Want to post your own comment on this Article? 
|
||||
|
||||||||||||||
Must Read (0) 
Well Said (0) 
News (0) 
Touching (0) 
Funny (0) 
Supported (0) 
Interesting (0) 
Inspiring (0) 
Valuable (0) Tell a Friend:
|
Copyright © 2002-2009, OpEdNews |
