Why does The Delegates and Super Delegate have so much power in American Politics?

They seem to be the ones deciding who gets to represent the parties and who gets elected. The registered voters has little or no say at election time; you have two options vote Republican or Democrat, even if the majority does not like either candidate...! Asked by MonPepe 41 months ago Similar questions: Delegates Super Delegate power American Politics Politics & Law > Politics.

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Representative democracy You’re bringing up several different issues at once, and I’ll get to them in turn. But in summary, what you're talking about is representative democracy. Until recently, direct democracy simply wasn't an option.

The electoral college was partly a way to accommodate the fact that it just wasn't possible to fairly count total votes. Different states would set different standards, and checking up was hard. (It also was partly a way to give some states more power than a direct system allowed.) But the real goal of representative democracy is to have decisions made by experts.

Consider, for example, the Congress, which is another representative democracy. They have staffs who help them understand the issues, and it's their job to make informed decisions. Bills are written by a small set of people and then discussed with a few hundred others.

Even if it were possible to ask everybody what they thought of each bill, we wouldn't be making informed choices and we wouldn't be able to collaborate on bill writing. Now, the electoral college has almost certainly outgrown most of its original intent.It's practical to count votes now. It still shifts a lot of power from densely populated states to less-populated ones, which coincidentally also happens to shift it from blue states to red states.

I'd love to see it ended for that reason alone. The party delegates are a different election, and they're not as powerful as you might think. The regular delegates are just casting votes on behalf of the voters in their state.

In the Republican convention that's the only kind. The Democrats have "super-delegates" who could theoretically swing the election different from what the voters wanted, but they'd do so at the peril of the whole party. As long as the decision is relatively clear, the delegate system does exactly what the voters would have done.

The worst case is when the popular vote doesn't give a clear margin of victory, and in that case the delegates are only making the best of a bad situation. Popular votes are subject to all kinds of rigging and mis-counting. Suppose there's bad weather in a state on their election day.

The delegate system corrects for that, by providing about the same power to the state as it would otherwise. If they counted voters who showed up, states with good weather have an advantage. Ultimately, delegates are answerable to voters.

Sometimes the delegate system is just a historical accident. Sometimes they're specially selected to do work on our behalf. It's an imperfect system, but direct democracy has its own drawbacks.

1 That is our system. However, this year, it seems that we have decided before the Conventions. They may have nopower at all.

Some counts show Got to make sure that vote never happens if you are for Obama.

That is our system. However, this year, it seems that we have decided before the Conventions. They may have nopower at all.

Some counts show Got to make sure that vote never happens if you are for Obama.

2 The Parties control the rules for selecting their candidates. Republicans have their rules and Democrats have theirs. We have other parties but not mainstream.It seems that in order to differentiates themselves from the Dems or Repubs, they are very extreme (libertariarns) or single issue (Greens).

Or both. It makes it difficult to take these guys seriously. Although, with some of the clowns we send to Washington, it's hard to believe we would do any worse.

The Parties control the rules for selecting their candidates. Republicans have their rules and Democrats have theirs. We have other parties but not mainstream.It seems that in order to differentiates themselves from the Dems or Repubs, they are very extreme (libertariarns) or single issue (Greens).

Or both. It makes it difficult to take these guys seriously. Although, with some of the clowns we send to Washington, it's hard to believe we would do any worse.

MonPepe replied to post #2: 3 Thank you for your answer, you have helped me understand how the "system" work, better. It is still hard for us to know if those Parties Representatives and the Delegates exercise "the will" of the People; there should e a way to kep them in check .

Thank you for your answer, you have helped me understand how the "system" work, better. It is still hard for us to know if those Parties Representatives and the Delegates exercise "the will" of the People; there should e a way to kep them in check.

PamPerdue replied to post #3: 4 News organizations are keeping an eye on it. If somebody other than John McCain is the Republican nominee, I assure you that you'll hear about it. The Democratic nominee is a bit touchier.By some measures Clinton got more popular votes than Obama did.

The numbers aren't kept quite as precisely as one might hope.

News organizations are keeping an eye on it. If somebody other than John McCain is the Republican nominee, I assure you that you'll hear about it. The Democratic nominee is a bit touchier.By some measures Clinton got more popular votes than Obama did.

The numbers aren't kept quite as precisely as one might hope.

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