In 2000, it seemed that everyone took a crash course on how the electoral college worked. This year's civics lesson seems to be about party delegates. Who are they? Where do they come from? Why do "superdelegates" harness such power!?
You're not alone. The Wikipedia entry on superdelegates was a stub until December 2007, but has undergone more than 100 edits since Super Tuesday.
Most news sites have picked up the issue:
- ABC News created a cartoon to explain how each party appropriates delegates as well as an article on Democrat superdelegates.
- CNN has a Delegate Explainer.
- NPR's All Things Considered ran a piece "Explaining Disparities in Democrats' Delegate Tallies"
- A blog called 2008 Democratic Convention Watch, which I found through a Congressional Quarterly article, has created a list of superdelegates who have pledged their support to each candidate.
