The Colvin Report: Super Delegates

They are bound by one thing and one thing only: their conscious. I know Democrats are known for their kind heartedness, but how much do you really trust them?

2,025 Delegate votes are needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination and the Democratic presidential candidates are at a near standstill. There are approximately 850 available Super Delegates that could make all the difference.

These Super Delegates consist of (1) Elected members of the Democratic National Committee; (2) Democratic Governors; (3) Democratic US Senators and US Representatives (including non-voting delegates); (4) Distinguished party leaders (current and former Presidents and Vice Presidents; former Democratic leaders of the Senate and House; former DNC chairmen); and (5) Unpledged "add-on's" chosen by the DNC (Nancy Pelosi's daughter, for example).

Maybe it's the skeptic inside of me, but something seems severely wrong about this process. It should be simple, the people come out and vote, those votes are pledged to the winning candidate (in proportion or totality), and the candidate with the most votes wins the presidential nomination. To me, this tells the voter one thing; that the Democratic party does not trust you to make an informed decision about who should be the presidential nominee.

What do you have to say about that?