 uh carter lose against reagan the party leaders were like we can't have these you know unwashed masses picking our nominees anymore oh my gosh so they had a check on the little people and that's the superdelegates so it's really whenever i hear democrats talk about them going and choosing their party nominee i laugh my ass off because you're not you're literally not doing it it is the party machine that is doing it they have it set up to where it's a fail safe so