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May 12, 2008 4:12 PM
After school special: What's a superdelegate?
Posted by David Postman
If you need a primer on how superdelegates do their work check out this video from The League of Young Voters and AGIT-POP. It seems, according to this After School Special-like video, that superdelegates fly through the air, and proclaim things like “I’m a back-room, brandy-sniffing dealmaker” and, “The people have spoken, but I know better.”
But guess what? Not everyone thinks it’s funny. Some Democrats have apparently lost their sense of humor in the final days of their nomination fight. Check out the comments at this post on firedoglake.
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