New Rules

The rule-making body of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday defeated an amendment brought by Bernie Sanders delegates to abolish superdelegates. [...] But the rules committee did approve a compromise measure that binds some superdelegates to the results of their state primaries.

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After the defeat of the first amendment, the Sanders and Clinton camps met and came up with draft language for a “unity commission” to meet shortly after the general election to draw up changes to the party’s nominating process.

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[T]he commission will be charged to “make specific recommendations providing that members of Congress, governors and distinguished party leaders … remain unpledged and free to support their nominee of choice, but that remaining unpledged delegates be required to cast their vote at the convention for candidates in proportion to the vote received for each candidate in their state.”

  The Intercept

Why do governors, congresscritters and "distinguished party leaders" get to retain their right to vote any way they want? It seems like that leaves lobbyists who are superdelegates to be chained to the "will of the (little) people". What's the point in allowing them to be superdelegates at all if you make that requirement? Just knock them off the damned list.

The Washington Post‘s Dave Weigel reports that this would effectively bind two-thirds of superdelegates to voting as their states vote in the presidential nominating process.

When, in fact, democratically speaking, three-thirds should be.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.