The Democratic Party created super-delegates in the wake of Jimmy Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980. Combined with the Mcgovern debacle of 1972, it seemed to the Democratic elites that the party’s nomination process had been hijacked by radicals who could not settle on a nominee within the mainstream of American […]

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It was another fun-filled week for Senators Obama and Clinton as they took turns marginalizing themselves in the eyes of moderate Americans. Senator Obama started the festivities by heading to San Francisco, that ever steady bastion of centrist common sense, where he explained why he was struggling to win lower class white votes in the […]

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