Crooks and Liars: “[T]he math has been done and it appears that even after the Feb. 5th “Tsunami Tuesday” with 23 states either having their primaries or caucuses, the delegate count won’t be high enough to pick the official nominee. So all eyes turn to the super-delegates, who don’t have to follow the election results of their state in pledging their support.”

According to Wikipedia, these Superdelegates account for nearly 20% of all delegates at the Democratic Party Convention. A list of the delegates is posted here- it includes all of the Democratic congressman, senators, and governors in the US along with a variety of DNC members and other party elders.

It occurred to me that this must be discouraging to those that are working so hard to get their underdog candidates to the top of this year’s primary heap. Seems like the deck is stacked for the “establishment” in the Democratic party.