The Super Delegates
How the Super Delegates are selected. This section describes how the individuals who are Super Delegates were, or are, identified and selected.
Super Delegates include:
- Democratic members of the House of Representatives
- Democratic Senators
- Democratic governors
- Members of the Democratic National Committee
- Former Democratic presidents and vice-presidents
- Former Speakers of the House
- Former Senate leaders
- Former minority leaders in the House or Senate
- Former chairs of the Democratic National Committee.
[edit] The History of the Democratic Party Superdelegate
As the Democratic Party increased their use of primaries and caucuses to select delegates during the 1960s and 1970s, intra-party criticism continued, with the opinion expressed that some control of the nomination process should remain among party elites. Although the McGovern-Fraser reforms insured significant primary delegate representation by the 1972 National Convention, Democratic presidential defeats in 1972 and 1980, and the surprise success of then-outsider candidate Jimmy Carter's nomination in 1976, increased the call for more control being vested with Party leaders.
Between the 1980 and 1984 conventions, The Hunt Commission submitted reforms to the DNC that called for party leaders to become voting delegates, not just nonvoting attendees per McGovern-Fraser. Then-Governor Jim Hunt (D-NC) led the Commission, which was charged to "give party professionals and elected officials an enhanced role at the conventions." The DNC-Hunt Commission negotiations led to making voting delegate spaces available for "core" elected officials from each state - including Governors, US House members and US Senators, state party officials, and mayors of larger cities. These PLEOs (Party Leaders and Elected Officials) and/or other superdelegate slots - as determined by each state party - were formed in time for the 1984 convention, and have been in place since. [1]
Tad Devine (Gore's chief political consultant) on the purpose of superdelegates (New York Times)
[edit] View on Google Maps or Google Earth
- View the Super Delegates on Google Maps.
- With the Google Earth client installed, you can view the Super Delegates as a layer on Google Earth.
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via Official Google Blog by Karen on 2/20/08
Posted by Rick Klau, Strategic Partner Development Manager and Elections Hipster
I'm a political junkie, and as Super Tuesday neared it seemed likely that the race for Democratic nominee would extend well past that big day at the polls. I started looking around for information about the so-called "superdelegates" (the party leaders and elected officials who make up 20% of the vote at the convention) -- and was disappointed to find no single resource that provided details on who they were, which candidate they'd endorsed (if anyone) and where they are located.
So I went ahead and registered 'superdelegates.org', installed MediaWiki and started populating the site with the info I could find. Thanks to a terrific extension to MediaWiki (KML Export, written by Juliano Ravasi), it's possible to map the wiki pages to a Google Earth layer, which helps to visualize where these delegates are.
Since the superdelegates site launched two weeks ago, it has been featured on CNN, and tens of thousands of people have stopped by to learn more about superdelegates, understand the process, and add information. Over 60% of the delegates are now on the map and are associated with their endorsed candidate, with more info coming in every day. It's tremendously gratifying to see a community grow around this timely subject- hope you find it useful!
Disclaimer: Since superdelegate endorsements are not binding, we can't ensure that the endorsements listed are indicative of future events. But we're excited that people are engaging in politics online by drawing from a compilation of candidate endorsement lists on Roll Call, CNN's Election Center and other sources to update the site on a daily basis. Other groups and publications may have different superdelegate counts, including candidates' campaigns, the New York Times, and the AP.
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