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Rules for Liz and Bernie



The 2020 presidential campaign will begin all too soon, alas, and one question is whether Democrats nominate a centrist or someone from the rising left wing. The chances of the latter rose Saturday when the Democratic National Committee changed its rules to strip superdelegates of their first-ballot nominating leverage.

Superdelegates are party officeholders and insiders who in 2016 represented about 15% of nominating delegates. Most favored Hillary Clinton, and they were her backstop had Bernie Sanders won enough delegates…



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