WASHINGTON — Seeing a good possibility that the Democratic presidential nomination will not be settled in the primaries and caucuses, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are lavishing attention on a group that might hold the balance of power: elected officials and party leaders who could decide the outcome at the convention in August.
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Known as superdelegates because they are free to cast their votes at the convention as they see fit, they are the object of an intensifying and potentially high-stakes charm offensive by the candidates and their supporters.
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And they wonder why, generally, about half the population couldn't give a shit about voting. There are so many places in the process where the fix can be put in, it really doesn't matter what we think anymore.
Update:
Not that I'm a big fan of Donna Brazile, but I have to hand it to her on her principled stand:
... "if it gets to the convention and superdelgates decide the nomination, I'm leaving the party."
Yeah, I'll have a big problem with it myself.
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