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| − | A place where nobody dared to go | + | A '''superdelegate''' to the [[Democratic]] national convention is a common term used to refer to a delegate to the convention by virtue of holding office or being selected by the party rather than being elected as part of the [[primary system]]. Superdelegates are not pledged to any one candidate and are free to vote for any candidate. |
| − | The love that we came to know
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| − | They call it Xanadu
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| − | And now
| + | One fifth 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. |
| − | Open your eyes and see
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| − | What we have made is real
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| − | We are in Xanadu
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| − | A million lights are dancing
| + | 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]]. |
| − | And there you are
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| − | A shooting star
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| − | An everlasting world
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| − | And you're here with me
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| − | Eternally
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| − | Xanadu, Xanadu,
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| − | (now we are here)
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| − | In Xanadu
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| − | Xanadu, Xanadu,
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| − | (now we are here)
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| − | In Xanadu
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| − | Xanadu, your neon lights will shine
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| − | For you, Xanadu
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| − | The love
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| − | The echoes of long ago
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| − | You needed the world to know
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| − | They are in Xanadu
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| − | The dream
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| − | That came through a million years
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| − | That lived on through all the tears
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| − | It came to Xanadu
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| − | A million lights are dancing
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| − | And there you are
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| − | A shooting star
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| − | An everlasting world
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| − | And you're here with me
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| − | Eternally
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| − | Xanadu, Xanadu,
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| − | (now we are here)
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| − | In Xanadu
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| − | Xanadu, Xanadu,
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| − | (now we are here)
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| − | In Xanadu
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| − | Now that I'm here
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| − | Now that you're near in Xanadu
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| − | Now that I'm here
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| − | Now that you're near in Xanadu
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| − | Xanadu...
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