CNN anchor John Roberts talked to Jason Rae, the nation's youngest superdelegate (who also happens to be gay) on Monday's American Morning. Roberts asked him how he became a superdelegate, how aggressively the campaigns have reached out to him, and why he ultimately chose to support Barack Obama.
Said Rae: “Senator Clinton needs to win both Texas and Ohio. If she doesn't, I think she's going to see that she just keeps slipping further and further behind in the delegate count. And that in order to make it up, it would have to resort only to superdelegates. I think that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama are very experienced in politics and both know that dragging the nomination process out even longer is detrimental to the party as a whole. We don't want to go into convention in August without a nominee. We need to spend the summer months getting, you know, a solid message out there. With the Republicans already having Senator McCain chosen. If we spend the next, you know, three or four months fighting internally over who our nominee will be, it just gives the Republicans time to get a message together and attack us…I think for me, one the factors I was deciding to endorse Senator Obama was how my state voted. Wisconsin was overwhelmingly in favor of Senator Obama but that wasn't my only reason. I really do think that superdelegates, you know, the reason they were created back in 1982, was to add a different perspective to the process, and I think that as such, you know, superdelegates are responsible to, you know their electorate. For example, I'm responsible for the Democratic party of Wisconsin. And I think that we do have a duty to represent our best judgment and figure out what we think is best for the party and for the country.”
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