Superdelegates are an affront to democracy and should not exist

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

How about we do this:

First week of Feb: Iowa Caucuses.
Second week of Feb: New Hampshire Primary
Mid-February: a small primary with actual demographic diversity, maybe?

Mid-March: ALL OTHER PRIMARIES.

In addition to state delegates, we also have national "at-large" delegates who are pledged to the winner of the national popular primary vote, either winner-take-all, or proportional.  A select few superdelegates (really, really important people, like party chair, elected officials, etc) are unbound.

That would be democratic.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Primaries in general should be done away with and we should do elections with something like Condorcet or IRV at worst, but that's neither here nor there I suppose.

Yeah, get rid of the superdelegates, caucuses, early states and such. Throw in the electoral college too. All of these things are an affront to democracy.

A nationwide primary with 15 candidates would be a cluster^@&#.  Do we really want a candidate who gets 18% of the vote to be the nominee?  Even with IRV, that's terrible.

There's a reason for the Parliamentary system.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Thats not gonna to happen. The gun issue wont allow Blacks to vote for Sanders, since he is from Vermont. BLACKS are urban.

I think this speaks to a greater issue, that the Clintons are still an institution within the Democratic Party, especially among the core establishment, especially among African Americans.  White millennials didn't grow up with Bill Clinton, and don't remember eight years of economic growth and peace.  Bernie Sanders is a young, white phenomenon.

Hilary rides the coattails of Bill, and Bill is beloved and cherished.  He might as well be J F freaking K.  The media and internet frenzy around Sanders forgets this.