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==Effects==
==Effects==
While the McGovern-Fraser reform movement through affirmative action brought women, younger people and minorities into the active party apparatus, it disenfranchised public office holders in order to do so. The counter-reform Hunt Commission brought back party bosses and allowed New Left activist to stay, provided they swore-off involvement with anti-establishment extremists and settled into their positions of privilege. Many still used liberal and progressive rhetoric to sell the party to the masses, but covertly pursued a corporatist agenda of competing with Republicans for the big money donations.<ref>George McGovern, for example, could afford only one nationwide TV commercial aired once a few days before the 1972 election. And the DNC campaign debt for Hubert Humphrey's failed 1968 bid ''still'' was not paid off by 1980.</ref> <ref>http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34898-have-the-democratic-superdelegates-been-compromised </ref>
While the McGovern-Fraser reform movement through affirmative action brought women, younger people and minorities into the active party apparatus, it disenfranchised public office holders in order to do so. The counter-reform Hunt Commission brought back party bosses and allowed New Left activist to stay, provided they swore-off involvement with anti-establishment extremists and settled into their positions of privilege. Many still used liberal and progressive rhetoric to sell the party to the masses, but covertly pursued a corporatist agenda of competing with Republicans for the big money donations.<ref>George McGovern, for example, could afford only one nationwide TV commercial aired once a few days before the 1972 election. And the DNC campaign debt for Hubert Humphrey's failed 1968 bid ''still'' was not paid off by 1980.</ref> <ref>[http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34898-have-the-democratic-superdelegates-been-compromised Have the Democratic Superdelegates Been Compromised?], 18 February 2016, By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed. www.truth-out.org </ref>
===Superdelegates steal the show, 1984===
===Superdelegates steal the show, 1984===