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A '''Superdelegate''' is a [[delegate]] to a [[presidential nomination convention]] who is not bound by primary results.<ref>US Government and Politics</ref>
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A '''superdelegate''' is a delegate to the [[Democratic]] national convention by virtue of holding office rather than being elected as a delegate as part of the primary system.
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==References==
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20% of the delegates to the [[Democratic]] national convention are '''superdelegates''', giving them power to change the outcome in a close race for the presidential nomination.
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The [[Democrats]] adopted this system of '''superdelegates''' to avert another fiasco like that experienced in 1972, when the purely democratic nomination process produced an electable candidate for president, [[George McGovern]].
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[[Category:United States Government]]
 
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