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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Rambi who wrote (248998)5/6/2008 6:00:23 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 793958
 
"We never heard of these superdelegates until it looked like a black guy was gonna win."

--Chris Rock

Point of trivia. Susan Estritch coined the term 'superdelegate.'

>>Organized feminists, on and off the Commission, however, make a new argument. Speaking on their behalf, Technical Advisory Committee Member Susan Estrich of Massachusetts argued that creating a new category of delegates who were not subject to the fair reflection and candidate right of approval rules would create a new status of delegate which she referred to as “super-delegates.” These delegates, argued Estrich, would be overwhelmingly white and male. Even were they balanced by an equal number of women in the total delegation – there would still be the problem of “equal power.” The “super-delegates” because of their greater flexibility in the choice of a nominee, would have greater power than the female delegates committed to presidential candidates. (“Unintended Consequences,” by Susan Estrich, Memorandum to the Hunt Commission, September 9, 1981.)

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