Increasingly there are warnings being issued that the Democratic presidential nominee may be "selected" by the party's superdelegates.
Those are the elected officials and other party bigwigs from around the country who will wield big power at the Democratic National Convention in August.
They were not picked by the people in primaries but were alloted their power by virture of their prominence (local, national or regional).
They will constitute about 20 percent of the more than 4,000 delegates at the Convention.
Among Brooklyn's Superdelegates are: Congressmembers Yvette Clarke, Edolphus (Ed) Towns, Nydia Velazquez and Anthonly Weiner; and Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumber. (Photos of them are here, left to right, as named.)
Needless to say, all our superdelegates are supporting Hillary Clinton.
So the question becomes whether or not - with Barack Obama leading so far in the popularly elected delegates - it will come to pass that in August the party's collection of superdelegates will, in effect, override the will of the majority of those who voted.
One pro-Obama website came up with this recent headline: ELECTION UPDATE: HILLARY CLINTON CAN NO LONGER WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION WITHOUT SOME SUPERDELEGATE CHEATING!
A wonderful article in The Nation magazine, reflecting on the superdelegates, asks: "How could the Democratic Party be so, well, undemocratic?"
It would good, and democratic (note small "d"), if Brooklyn's superdelegates reflected and spoke out on this issue.
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