Intellectual Property Law

Spotlight on the Superdelegate System II

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

The ubiquitous and award-winning video journalist/voting reform activist Jacob Soboroff recently interviewed Democratic strategist Tad Devine, who has had a hand in shaping the rules that govern the Democrats' controversial delegate allocation system.

Devine does a good job of explaining the background and history of the superdelegate system, and the reasons for its creation.

"Whatever we do, I think it?s incumbent that we do it transparently," he says. That means making as much information available as possible though the Internet and the media. (Soboroff, who's the executive director of the voting reform group Why Tuesday? is sponsoring The Huffington Post's OffTheBus project to work on that.)

Watch the video for yourself:

The Clinton campaign today used YouTube to post this interview excerpt about superdelegates with public radio and PBS host Tavis Smiley:

For more perspective on the role of superdelegates in the Democratic nominating contest, check out this exhaustive story titled "The Art of Wooing," from National Journal magazine.

See Also:

• Superdelegates Under the Spotlight

Full post as published by Threat Level on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).