Super Delegate Transparency Project
The Super Delegate Transparency Project WikiLots of talk concerning super delegates on the intertubes these days.
Some folks are downright pissed that approximately 800 "super delegates" -- who's "votes count approximately 100,000 times more than yours and mine" -- could decide the Democratic nomination and not the people -- the voters.
So some decided to do something about it by calling for transparency among the super delegates. Jennifer Nix and Mark Myers of LiteraryOutpost.com in collaboration with Chris Bowers from OpenLeft.com have set up a wiki aptly named the Super Delegate Transparency Project. The aim is "to provide citizens with visibility to how the Super-Delegates could impact the outcome of the primary."
The meat and potatoes of the wiki is the main table. It lists:
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Some folks are downright pissed that approximately 800 "super delegates" -- who's "votes count approximately 100,000 times more than yours and mine" -- could decide the Democratic nomination and not the people -- the voters.
So some decided to do something about it by calling for transparency among the super delegates. Jennifer Nix and Mark Myers of LiteraryOutpost.com in collaboration with Chris Bowers from OpenLeft.com have set up a wiki aptly named the Super Delegate Transparency Project. The aim is "to provide citizens with visibility to how the Super-Delegates could impact the outcome of the primary."
The meat and potatoes of the wiki is the main table. It lists:
- The State
- The districts in each state and each district's:
- Obama vote
- Clinton vote
- If there is a super delegate and who it is
- If the super delegate has pledged Obama or Clinton
- Super delegate status
- Disparity
- Totals
To join, simply create a wikidot account and send your wikidot user name to mark.c.myers@gmail.com. Please also include a brief note on how you heard about the project.-Dippold
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Labels: elections, Presidential Race, Primaries
1 Comments:
Thank you for the coverage. As you have surmised, the project is new. Most of the volunteers have come in over the last 24 hours and the work (at least the work that I do) will begin in earnest this weekend.
Although some folks have already started (For instance the South Carolina data has already been updated).
And yes, this is about activating and mobilizing ourselves to shine a light on how this all plays out.
I am not content to sit around and hope the MSM picks this up as an issue and compiles the data.
Again, thanks for the coverage.
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