Super Tuesday has come and gone, and the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is continuing. If you had raised that scenario six months ago, you would have been laughed outta town. But ...

Whether you think superdelegates are as useless as a third nipple or a great way to get the party elite more involved in the nomination process, you have to at least admit they’ve made for very ...

“The superdelegates are an acid test for whether you think the Democratic Party should be democratic,” says Ben Wikler, MoveOn’s Washington director. MoveOn petitions in 48 states urging ...

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No other election in recent memory has seen quite this much stir over "superdelegates", the Democratic party's unpledged delegates who vote independently at the Democratic National Convention. As the ...

As the Democratic presidential battle grinds on, the role of superdelegates remains critical. Sen. Hillary Clinton needs more superdelegates on her side if she is to wrest the nomination from Sen.

Unless Bernie Sanders wins enough delegates to capture the Democratic Party nomination on the first ballot, he is not going to be the nominee. The reason will be that the superdelegates–those same ...

With every passing week, the role of “superdelegates” is growing in the Democratic race. Together, they represent twice as many delegates to the national convention as California will send. But nobody ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dozens of Democratic superdelegates could put the brakes on nominating ...

Since its launch, a specter has haunted Bernie Sanders’ run for the Democratic nomination. It’s not his age, though at 74 he would be the oldest president in American history. And it’s not that he’s ...