CNN Radio interviews Levine

March 17, 2016

Professor Myron Levine interviewed by CNN Radio on the role of superdelegates and their impact on the presidential race

Urban and Public Affairs professor Myron Levine was interviewed on CNN Radio’s The Michael Smerconish Program (March 17). 

Levine argued that superdelegates were intended to add some sense of “balance” to the selection process.  Superdelegates comprise about 15 percent of the Democratic convention and only 7 percent of the Republican delegates (and they are not always “super” or free to vote their intentions at the Republican convention).  It makes no sense for a party to