Superdelegates Under a Microscope

This is why I think the whole Superdelegate idea is dead wrong. This site lists the superdelegates and those who have already pledged their support to one candidate or another:

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/...

In perusing the list, we see some aggregious examples of superdelegates from states that Obama won and who are ignoring the will of the voters in their home states, and supporting Hillary Clinton.

Examples after the fold:

DNC Patti Higgins (AK)

DNC Joe Reed (AL)

Rep. Diane DeGette (CO)
DNC Manny Rodriguez (CO)
DNC Maria Handley (CO)
DNC Ramona Martinez (CO)

DNC Ellen Camhi (CT)

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (DE)
DNC Rhett Ruggerio (DE)
DNC Karen Valentine (DE)

And this list blew me away because everyone knows Obama will win DC hands down:

DNC Mary Eva Candon (DC)
DNC Yolanda Caraway (DC)
DNC Hartina Flournoy (DC)
DNC Harold Ickes (DC)
DNC Ben Johnson (DC)
DNC Eric Kleinfeld (DC)
DNC Minyon Moore (DC)
DNC Elizabeth Smith (DC)
DNC Marilyn Tyler Brown (DC)
DNC Gerald McEntee (DC)
DNC Carol Pensky (DC)

Rep. David Scott (GA)
Rep. John Lewis (GA)
Michael Thurmond (GA)

DNC John Rednour (IL)

Rep. Leonard Boswell (IA)
DNC Sandy Opstvedt (IA)

DNC Teresa Krusor (KS)

VP Walter Mondale (MN)
DNC Jackie Stevenson (MN)
DNC Rick Stafford (MN)

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (MO)
Fmr. Rep. Dick Gephardt (MO)
DNC Doug Brooks (MO)
DNC Sandy Querry (MO)

DNC Don Fowler (SC)
DNC Marva Smalls (SC)

DNC Hon. Karen Hale (UT)
DNC Helen Langan (UT)