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And fifthly, your partisan hypocrisy prevents you for acknowledging the fact that Republicans have superdelegates too. They just call them by a different name, "automatic delegates."
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/storie...
"Reed had collected sufficient position to appeal the decision of the convention's rules committee to give all 165 members of the Republican National Committee automatic delegate slots at the 2004 convention. To Reed, that will begin a slippery slope toward the Democratic Party's installations of more than 500 super-delegates."
In BOTH the Democratic Party and Republican Party, the number of Superdelegate votes or Automatic Delegate votes is INSUFFICIENT to win the party's nomination. However, it does give party leaders leverage to counter efforts by the opposing party to sabotage or influence the primary elections.