The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to reform the superdelegate system, curtailing the power of elite members of the Democratic Party whose role in choosing Democrats' presidential nominee has increasingly been decried as undemocratic. In years past, the roughly 700 superdelegates could back the candidate of their choosing, irrespective of primary outcomes, and they tended to favor establishment figures like Hillary Clinton over comparative outsiders like Bernie Sanders.
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Sun, 08/26/2018 - 7:04am
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