{"id":2888,"date":"2008-02-06T02:15:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2008-02-06T02:15:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:15:50","slug":"katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-tyranny-of-super-delegates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Tyranny of Super-Delegates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Cut | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/edcut?bid=7&amp;pid=266130\">4 January 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/campaignmatters?pid=265730\">stirring victory<\/a> in Iowa was also a good night for our democracy. The turnout broke records and young people \u2013 who were mobilized and organized \u2013 participated in unprecedented numbers. And now that Iowans have spoken \u2013 the first citizens in the nation to do so \u2013 here&#8217;s the Democratic delegate count for the top three candidates (2,025 delegates are needed to secure the nomination):<\/p>\n<p>Clinton \u2013 169<\/p>\n<p>Obama \u2013 66<\/p>\n<p>Edwards \u2013 47<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huh?&#8221; you say. &#8220;vanden Heuvel, you made a MAJOR typo.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/edcut?bid=7&amp;pid=266130\">Read the post<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/afrospear.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/11\/super-delegates-the-undemocratic-democratic-party-primaries\/\">hat tip\/more articles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Cut | 4 January 2008 Barack Obama&#8217;s stirring victory in Iowa was also a good night for our democracy. The turnout broke records and young people \u2013 who were mobilized and organized \u2013 participated in unprecedented numbers. And now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-KA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}