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In response to What role should Superdelegates play?.

5:30 PM. The big white clock on the wall stares at me defiantly. It's saying, "when are you going to have time to exercise, cook dinner and run out to the ballots in your town and voice your choice for a presidential candidate." I advert my eyes and mentally calculate the amount of time it would take me to do all those things. I jump up from my seat, turn of my computer and run out of my office. I fumble with my car keys, and while I'm racing down the streets of Boston, I wonder by what miracle I'm not pulled over by the cops. I get home around 6:00 PM (note that I live about 45 minutes away from my job). I breathe a sigh of relief, because I can still vote, the polls close at 8:00 PM.
That was my story on the day that Massachusetts got to vote for the presidential primary. I was so excited to voice my choice, it was the first ever election in which I could vote. I felt as if I could make a difference in the United States, just by checking a name on a ballot. I voted for who I believed in, I trusted their message and their ability to get the job done. I wanted to see past the publicity stunts, past the historical milestones (although both were very exciting in my case), I wanted someone who could steer America in the right direction. Now, several months later, it seems like decades when I was so excited to leave the office to go vote. The candidate for the democratic party has still not been chosen, and now the newscasters are telling me, that it may not be up to me but to superdelegates, who may or may not have an agenda.
I saw a newspaper comic strip, and it was the epitome of how I feel. The voter proudly claims that he voted, and the superdelegates say: "So what?". I now feel as if my vote didn't matter as much as it should have, and is being diminished by people who don't have the same vision for a united country. I feel as if the race as not become about who can win the most support from America in order to create change, but who can pay the most people and keep this race alive until the superdelegates. I wanted my vote to count, I wanted to be heard, and now, I feel as if I am an insignificant tax payer who doesn't matter.
Yes, in some circumstances, maybe the superdelegates can do more good than harm, but then again, why do we have millions of taxpayers vote, only to be overruled by superdelegates who have loyalties to their best interests and not the interests of AMERICA?