With Hillary Clinton on the verge of officially clinching the Democratic nomination she’s already declared is hers, the raging debate over the superdelegates who’ve helped to put her over the top will shortly become moot, at least for 2016. But for the moment, from one end of the country to the other—literally—Democrats are still taking aim at the anti-democratic nature of the 30-year-old superdelegate nominating process, whereby a House or Senate member, a state governor, a National Committee official and a nominee on the national ticket gets to vote as a convention delegate for whomever they want.
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