"*Not* Sheep"
He earned his name...
While superdelegates were originally conceived as a check on the ability of a dark horse candidate subtle... to run away with the nomination, the superdelegates have grown into a massive force.
...In 1988, the Rules and Bylaws Committee stripped DNC members of their superdelegate status. Though the status was later restored, do you know who led the charge ...
Harold Ickes.
“Yes, I stripped them, and I was working for Jesse Jackson at the time and we thought automatic [i.e., super] delegates represented too much of an institutional interest and they didn’t recognize the qualities of someone like him,” Ickes
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