Asked by Tavis about the fact that, in deciding who will be the Democratic party’s nominee for president, the party’s superdelegates may fail to reflect the will of the people, Hillary talks about how great it is, actually, because the superdelegates “know the candidates better” than the voters do anyway, that she’s worked really closely with so many of them and basically that she’s happy to leave it to her friends to give her the nomination, even while conceding that the people’s votes are “an important part of the process.” I think she may have been quoting (plagiarizing?) Fidel Castro on that one. It’s the new Clinton “democracy’s good until you lose” approach, which is a variation on the old Bush “democracy’s better for exporting than for domestic use” approach.

Hillary’s “campaign,” which is now I guess primarily about calling as many of her superdelegate friends as she can, has put up a website called DelegateHub, which gives the “real facts” about superdelegates for all of those voters concerned to get at the truth. Clay Shirky at the Huffington Post offers a cutting analysis of the site. He opens this way:

Senator Clinton’s campaign has launched one of the oddest bits of political propaganda in the history of modern politics. Called DelegateHub.com, it is a web site that does nothing less than lay out, in glorious policy-wonk detail, their rationale for stealing the Democratic nomination.

DelegateHub is a mix of tone-deaf assertions about superdelegates (“FACT: Automatic delegates are expected to exercise their best judgment in the interests of the nation and the Democratic Party”) and endorsements from politicians who support her goal of thwarting the will of the voters (“Rep. Clyburn (D-SC) says automatic delegate support should not be based on election results.”) The idea that the campaign would spend its precious time, money, and energy in a public rebuke to voters in their own party suggests that they really don’t understand what we are objecting to.

Speaking of voters’ objections, The Onion, as usual, takes a most funny and sardonic look at our voting process in general and our banana republic Diebold electronic voting machines in particular. These days, it looks like a direct nod to Hillary.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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