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Democratic National Conventions
Convention held by the Democratic party every four years where the party's delegates elect their nominee for the presidency.
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Superdelegates Superdelegates are non-elected voters who have the full power of delegates despite not being selected through primaries or caucuses. The Democratic National Committee is currently the only political party to appoint superdelegates or to have a weighted nomination system. The number of superdelegates appointed per state depends upon that state's population and Democratic voter registration, thereby giving more weight to states with stronger Democratic bases.
There are 796 super-delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, comprising nearly one fifth of the total number of delegates.
About half of the super-delegates are current and former elected officials: all current Democratic Congressmen and Governors, and all former presidents, vice presidents, majority and minority leaders. The other half are members of the Democratic National Committee.
Super-delegacy as a feature of the nomination process has come under close scrutiny due to the very tight 2008 race.
2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination Race: Early in the process, most of the superdelegates were expected to support Hillary Clinton. There was a fear that Obama might win the majority of elected delegates, but Clinton would win a large enough majority of superdelegates to secure the nomination.
Barack Obama and his campaign officials suggested that this would lead to many of his supporters feeling disenfranchised, and that it would be wrong for the superdelegates to subvert the will of the voter should he win the majority of the popular vote. Clinton supporters countered that superdelegates were chosen as "super voters" by their own party, therefore more representative of the true will of the entire party.
Obama and Clinton lobbied the superdelegates aggressively. Most superdelegates have announced who they will support, but they are not committed irrevocably to one candidate until the Democratic National Convention in August.
If the Democratic primary race remained very close, the issue of superdelegation and the questions regarding the delegates from Michigan and Florida (see related question) may plunge the Democrats into a nightmare scenario: the supporters of the losing candidate may feel that the election was stolen from them, and thus might not support the winning candidate as actively as they otherwise would. This nightmare scenario however does not appear to be playing out, and as of May 11 Obama and Clinton are running even among superdelegates, with the AP reporting that Obama has taken the lead in superdelegates, and NBC reporting Clinton's superdelegate lead as down to 2.
The argument for: It is a representative means of completing a nomination via respected party leaders designed to balance the popular vote which can largely be unfamiliar with the realities of politics as well as uninformed on issues and actual candidate background and behavior.
The argument against: While the apportionment by region is representative, the selection of individuals isn't. It would be like letting George Bush select 435 super-voters, one from each Congressional district. Superdelegates allow the Democratic National Committee insiders to overrule the voters in a close election.
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Super delegate vs. Superdelegate vs. Super-delegate Because this is political jargon, the correct term might be super-delegate. However most news organizations including the AP, CNN, New York Times, and FoxNews have established "superdelegate" as the standard use of the term. The Democratic National Committee doesn't use the term at all, instead referring only to "Unpledged Delegates."
An Example: The following example was provided. A critique of it is presented below.
Imagine you live in a town where everyone decides to paint all the houses only one color. The town decides to have a vote to determine what color to use. If there are 10 people living in one house and only 3 living in another house, it would be unfair if everyones vote counted equally. It would be fair if every house had one vote. So the 10 vote for one person (a superdelegate or homeowner) to represent them, and likewise the 3 vote for one person to represent them. All these "one" persons, or super delegates gather to vote on what color to paint the houses, one vote per house. Easy enough. The fun part comes when the 6 out of the 10 in the one house want to paint the houses green, but the person they send decides to vote for orange. Now you and others in your area vote for a person to go make the "one" vote, maybe Obama, but that person may actually go vote for Clinton, or vice-versa. That person may be voted out of office when he returns, but the vote is already cast. Critique of Example: The above example may more accurately describe the electoral college, or the allocation of Pledged Delegates, then they describe superdelegates. Nobody votes for the superdelegates. They are appointed by the national committee. The Pledged Delegates (the not-so-super delegates) are the delegates whom the voters select.
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Superdelegates are members of the Democratic Party who are not bound to vote for and individual based on popular vote (ie they are not representing anyone, except themselves). This gives Bill Clinton the freedom, for example, as a living ex-President to vote for Hilary in the Democratic Primary as a delegate, rather than following who his local delegate has voted for.
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Super delegates are non-elected individuals who can support whatever candidate they wish and are used only by the Democratic Party during the presidential nomination. They are fiercely courted by the candidates since those votes can guarantee selection, regardless of the results of the popular vote.
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Super delegates are simply a carry over from the old House of Burgesses and the present Electoral College. The elite white males will continue to run this country and determine its fate. It is not democratic in the least and should be abolished along with the Electoral College. Popular vote should be the only type of vote countable.
The old guard rules and always will until the rest of us get off our hineys and have this elitism abolished from the democratic process.
Has there ever been a faithless elector?
Yes there has been a "Faithless Elector" in the state of Illinois.
Did Lincoln make a continental like a ranchero?
no, they were customized by wealthy owners. I've been interested in doing one myself. i would like an old mark III body, a 1970-71 mark to customize it myself. i think it would be really cool. the blackwood and the mark lt are real pickups using a ford pickup body. frank t. (just a car nut)
Yes. Salvage yard is a good source for all the parts you will need. You will however be better off installing a floor shifter.
How do you calculate crude birth rate?
Total number of births in a year x multipler
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Total population
The Crude Birth Rate does not separate males and females, nor does it consider females of child-bearing age. The multiplier is usually a large multiple of a hundred, usually 1000, 100 000 or 1 000 000.
A massive orgy. One where enormous amounts of wine are consumed. Bacchus is the Roman God of wine.
When was the last brokered convention?
For the Democrats, it was 1948; for the Republicans, 1952. In all subsequent elections, the candidate was selected on the first ballot.
Knowledge regarding politics is known as political education.
Why are government employees getting furloughed?
In the United States, many federal employees are facing the possibility of a furlough (mandatory unpaid leave) in the spring and summer of 2013.
The legal reason for this is a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President that mandated "sequestration", an across-the-board reduction in funding for all federal agencies including defense and non-defense agencies. The bill was passed and signed in August 2011 in response to disagreement over raising the debt limit of the country. Sequestration was originally intended as a "too horrible to contemplate" alternate to a group of 12 Congresspeople called the Supercommittee. The Supercommittee was composed of three Republicans and three Democrats from each half of Congress and they were charged with recommending a budget that would cut the deficit and rein in government spending. The Supercommittee failed to do so, triggering the implementation of the sequester in January 2013. Congress kicked that can down the road two months, to March 1, 2013, when they also addressed the expiration of the Bush (II)-era tax cuts. On March 1, 2013 all federal agencies were required to implement the budget cuts required by the sequester.
Under normal circumstances, federal agencies try to avoid furloughing employees if at all possible. However, the budget reductions from the sequester are so steep (approximately 5% for the fiscal year) and come so late in the fiscal year (there were only 7 months left at the start) that furloughing employees is the only way to meet the mandated budget reductions. This is further compounded by the fact that many federal employees are represented by Unions and the Agencies must bargain with the Unions over how the furlough will be implemented, mostly to ensure fairness and equity across all affected employees. Because of this, the furloughs won't actually start until mid-April, and some of the most directly-impacting furloughs won't start until mid-July.
What are the two dissenting groups within the national convention were the?
Girondins and the Mountain.
Rob Lowe
Not really. Most objective sources would say he is a centrist Democrat-- he is liberal on some social issues, and conservative on issues such as defense.
