The Democrats | Obama has the momentum | Economist.com

The Democrats | Obama has the momentum | Economist.com

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"The Obama camp is saying that the superdelegates should follow the will of the people. The Clinton group responds that this eliminates the point of having the superdelegates at all. The superdelegates were instituted in 1982 to give insiders more control over a party that had begun to drift too close (in their view) to the hands of ordinary activists. Perhaps the superdelegates will indeed obey the will of the people, siding with the winner in pledged delegates whatever their earlier promises. After all, the Democratic Party was traumatised by what many feel was an election stolen by George Bush in 2000. It would be odd indeed for something looking similar to happen in the party’s own choice of a candidate this year."