Let's Do Away With All These Undemocratic Delegate Systems
In listening to the primary and election coverage, I am amazed (re-amazed?) that we have a system that is so complicated that the news anchors don't even try to explain it, or make some half-hearted attempt before saying that the bottom line is that Clinton and Obama are effectively tied. Is it just me, or shouldn't we have a system that is easily explainable to the general public? Really it should be easily explainable to a 5th grader (or whenever it is that they are first exposed to civics). Super-delegates who have no responsibility to cast their ballots with the popular vote? Huh? Not to mention the Electoral College! How unbelievably stupid and undemocratic are these institutions? We tell people that their votes count and that they should vote because their votes matter. But unless you are in a closely contested state, your vote really doesn't matter. So in the primaries, we have a system that is too complicated for media to explain to the public, and then we