Super hype: not all delegates are created equal, but party insiders can't block Dean. Unless ...(Primary Kickoff)
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by Yglesias, Matthew
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IT'S NO SECRET THAT MUCH OF THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABlishment fears Howard Dean. For months, rumors have abounded that party insiders will mount some kind of last-ditch effort to deny him the nomination he seems ever closer to securing. One natural focus of such speculation has been the 715 "superdelegates," party mandarins appointed to the Democratic National Convention outside the primary and caucus system. Blocking insurgencies, after all, is what they were put on this earth to do.
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