Super Delegates

If you’re a Democrat super delegate, you might be swayed by the argument the Clintons might that you should not be required by rote to support the democratic results when there is only a margin of a few hundred thousand votes out of millions, or 1-2%, a margin of 100 or so delegates out of thousands and there are no votes from Michigan and Florida. Those states have been removed from this race. How is that democratic?
If you are a super delegate, you may feel that in fact your honourable duty would be to weigh the democratic results equally with other things like winability, electability, judgement, durability, name recognition, the problem of baggage… You have to sit back and weigh these other things.
I still think it’s likely a super delegate would go with Obama for other reasons besides the democratic results. Most super delegates from what I understand don’t like Clinton. Certainly it is still hard for me to accept that the results are democratic when two of the largest states of the union are excluded.
If you are a Clinton supporter, you’re saying give those states a chance to vote in some way or we’re not forced to accept these results and we’ll fight this all the way to the convention floor. That would be very hard for the party to take.
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The Maoist Party, which has just won a smashing victory in Nepal, after killing half the country for the past thirty years, has now declared that it is called the Maoist Party but it is also believing in capitalism and wanting freedom and democracy to continue. Why didn’t it just call itself the Jeffersonian Party?