Superdelegates—their history and purpose—came up in a post below. Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann give a succinct explanation in Friday’s NYT: “Delegates of Steel.”Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/opinion/15mann.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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