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Superdelegates will no longer have any realistic impact determine whom @TheDemocrats nominate for president. But the changes made to the caucus process, as @rubycramer reports here, are just as important. bit.ly/2NdIYvI
Revisiting this July @AsteadWesley report on the Democratic push to neuter superdelegates, I am still of two minds on this. No, I don’t want a few hundred prominent folks designated by the party to outweigh the will of the people. But in 2016, they didn’t. nyti.ms/2JfxOUh
Read @AsteadWesley’s report from Chicago on the Democratic Party’s changes today to superdelegates and caucuses. nyti.ms/2BMuwcP
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This @jmartNYT and @melbournecoal report is full of quotes from people who seem as though they don’t want to just come out and and say that Bernie Sanders should sit this one out, for any number of reasons. I agree. O’Rourke, for me, isn’t the reason why. nyti.ms/2RfuaCd
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