| − | In 2008, as a young woman, she began campaigning for her mother, who was seeking the nomination for Democratic presidential candidate in the 2008 election. A supposed "non-political" member of the Clinton family, Chelsea personally courted Democratic [[Super-delegate]]s.<ref>A Superdelegate in the Democratic party is an undemocratically selected voting member who gets to vote for the party's presidential nominee; one estimate puts the privilege of an unelected Superdelegate's vote equal to about 50,000 ordinary Registered Democratic Primary voters. The process of selection is somewhat mysterious, however big donors were openly allowed to purchase a delegate seat during Chelsea Clinton's father's presidency. Other seats are generally reserved for, or repaid to, senior party officials for past service, or who no longer are interested in participating in the grassroots caucus system for fear they may actually be unseated by angry party loyalists feeling neglected or ignored.</ref><ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4273078&page=1</ref><ref>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/02/hillary-respond/</ref> | + | In 2008, as a young woman, she began campaigning for her mother, who was seeking the nomination for Democratic presidential candidate in the 2008 election. A supposed "non-political" member of the Clinton family, Chelsea personally courted Democratic [[Superdelegate]]s.<ref>A Superdelegate in the Democratic party is an undemocratically selected voting member who gets to vote for the party's presidential nominee; one estimate puts the privilege of an unelected Superdelegate's vote equal to about 50,000 ordinary Registered Democratic Primary voters. The process of selection is somewhat mysterious, however big donors were openly allowed to purchase a delegate seat during Chelsea Clinton's father's presidency. Other seats are generally reserved for, or repaid to, senior party officials for past service, or who no longer are interested in participating in the grassroots caucus system for fear they may actually be unseated by angry party loyalists feeling neglected or ignored.</ref><ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4273078&page=1</ref><ref>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/02/hillary-respond/</ref> |
| | After Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama,<ref>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/21/superdelegate-schmoozed-by-chelsea-backs-obama/</ref> the Clinton family threw their support behind the Illinois senator, and Chelsea introduced her mother as the keynote speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In December of that year, her mother was nominated by Obama to be the next [[Secretary of State]]. | | After Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama,<ref>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/21/superdelegate-schmoozed-by-chelsea-backs-obama/</ref> the Clinton family threw their support behind the Illinois senator, and Chelsea introduced her mother as the keynote speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In December of that year, her mother was nominated by Obama to be the next [[Secretary of State]]. |