The Democratic Party's Legitimacy Problem - Roll Call

The Democratic Party’s Legitimacy Problem

By Madison Powers and CQ Columnist

Posted February 11, 2008 at 1:00am

796 superdelegates
Florida and Michigan convention delegates
“train wreck.”
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Florida
Michigan
Madison Powers is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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