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April 9, 2016

Tracking Down Superdelegates – Data In Action

Filed under: Crowd Sourcing,Government,Politics — Patrick Durusau @ 9:18 am

The Republican party has long been known for its efforts to exclude voters from the voting process altogether. Voter ID laws, purging voter rolls, literacy tests, etc.

The Democratic party skips the difficulty of dealing with voters because votes are irrelevant in the selection of superdelegates for presidential nominations. Gives the appearance of greater democracy while being on par with the Republicans.

To counter the Democratic Party’s lack of democracy, Spenser Thayer created the Superdelegate Hit List.

There was a predictable reaction of the overly sensitive media types and the privileged (by definition, superdelegates number among the privileged) to the use of “hit list” in the name.

Avoidance of personal accountability is a characteristic of the privileged.

The goal being to persuade the privileged, not to ride them down, the more appropriate response to privilege, the site name was changed to “Superdelegate List,” removing “hit.”

Here is the current list of superdelegates.

As you can see, the list is “sparse” on contact information.

You can help the Democratic Party be democratic by contributing data http://superdelegatelist.com/form.

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