Originally posted by Gamma
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The thing is the switches give Obama an unfair advantage when done in the middle of the run. if you were 'uncommitted'...or increasingly moving towards Obama and had not declared at the beginning...what reason do you have for not allowing a fair contest and then when it is all over voting for/casting your lot behind the preferred contestant?
As it stands who knows how much the switching during the contest or just before a primary has wounded Hillary and or boasted Obama? To me those movements are not fair? ...matters not which way they move!
At the end one will have more 'pledged delegates'...and the 'super-delegates' will put one of the contestants over the top! The way it is currently being done...Obama could wake tomorrow and have had 'super-delegates' move en masse and without all contests in all states being waged, he is the nominee!
Now if either had at the outset a large enough 'super-delegate; count - known right at the beginning...then that person could have been declared winner already. That would be fair. We knew the starting line and we would know and have both moving towards an end point.
Contest for pledged delegates over! Remaining 'super-delegates' now get on board. That to me is fairest method!
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