Backroom Primary: Decisive Superdelegates in Pa.
NPR breaks down the rationale for having superdelegates, as well as the position’s origins.
Congressman Patrick Murphy, who represents Philadelphia suburbs, supports Obama. As an Iraq veteran, Murphy feels strongly that Obama is right on bringing troops home.
But he also wants to make sure that if Obama wins the popular vote and the greatest number of pledged delegates, he will also win the nomination. “I don’t want to see the superdelegates overturn what he earned, and that’s the right to be our Democratic nominee,” he says.
