The [[Democrats]] adopted this system of '''superdelegates''' to avert another fiasco like that experienced in 1972, when the purely democratic nomination process produced an unelectable candidate for president, [[George McGovern]]. | The [[Democrats]] adopted this system of '''superdelegates''' to avert another fiasco like that experienced in 1972, when the purely democratic nomination process produced an unelectable candidate for president, [[George McGovern]]. |