Today's New York Times reported again, as has been known publicly for some time, that the Connecticut Democratic Party has stripped Senator Joe Lieberman of his status as a superdelegate because he is backing John McCain for President. In doing so, he violates the so-called Zell Miller rule, which prevents delegates from backing opposition party candidates.
That got me thinking once more about the superdelegates, and I offer the following somewhat paradoxical prediction: the more the important superdelegates prove to be in selecting a President, the fewer the superdelegates will be in attendance.
A close race dependent on superdelegates will likely lead to the public revelation of an unbelievable number of family crises: illnesses of spouses, children, parents, aunts, and uncles; needs to take children or grandchildren to college, etc.
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