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Frankly, I find the process of caucusing and choosing delegates to the Democratic National Convention in order to finally choose the Democratic Presidential candidate to be extremely confusing. Yet, just when I though I was getting a handle on it, I learned about “Super Delegates.”
These are men and women from every state who are designated by the Democratic party as smarter than the rest of us. They’ve been given the power to cast (and change) their vote for whomever they wish. I list Minnesota’s below.
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Reported in the Washington Post this morning, Democratic Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota is in critical condition this morning after undergoing an emergency surgical procedure to
Johnson, 59, who is in the critical care unit at George Washington University Hospital, fell ill at the Capitol yesterday, introducing a note of uncertainty over control of the Senate just weeks before Democrats are to take over with a one-vote margin.
If Sen. Johnson doesn’t recover. or is unfit to hold office, the Republican Governor of South Dakota. Michael Rounds, will appoint his replacement. It’s assumed that Rounds would would appoint a Republican. With the narrow majority in the Senate for the 110th Congress currently going to the Democrats at 51 to 49 (including the independents who said they would caucus with the Democrats) this would cause a 50/50 split broken by Vice President Dick Cheney.
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