Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 14:05:24 PM EDT
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| Former DNC Chair Don Fowler made an interesting proposal at the Democratic Change Commission meeting today to reduce the number of superdelegates to future Democratic conventions. Currently there are 850 or so superdelegates, including all of Congress, and 400+ members of the DNC. Fowler recommended limiting superdelegate status to the Chair and 1st Vice Chair of each state, plus 120 DNC national elected officers . He also suggested limiting Congressional superdelegates to only committee chairs or ranking members (and maybe subcommittee chairs or ranking members), for 150 or so. His proposal kept the current 30 governors, and 25 distinguished party leaders as is. This would reduce the total number of superdelegates to around to 300 or so. Will this happen? DNC members won't like losing their superdelegate status, so it may be tough to get this passed. |
| Matt :: Superdelegate reduction proposal |
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