If 2025 delegates are needed for nomination, and there are 800 superdelegates, it seems likely that short of a complete blowout in the primaries, a concerted choice by all of the superdelegates could render the enitre primary election process moot (especially with the state party leadership awarding their delegates proportionately rather than winner-take-all).

Would such an occurance lead to any sort of voter rebellion? By the time it happened, the only avenue available could be for Dem voters to just stay home on election day (which would mean death in the legislative and local races), or else vote for the other party, unless the jilted candidate tried an independent write-in run.

A technically valid point, but one must consider the nature and composition of the group that compose the superdelegates - party officials and politicians from all around the country. Can you possibly imagine them cooperating in such a coordinated fashion?

Additionally, can you imagine *elected* officials willingly going along with such an action, against the will of the majority of their own party? It'd probably be political suicide and even if they could get away with it could you imagine 800 politicians willing to take the chance?

Any superdelegates who haven't already declared a vote will, almost assuredly, just vote for the winner of the primaries after the fact - that's a safe bet. Heck, half of them who've already declared support for one candidate or another will probably change their votes too.

The only way I could see the "elected official" superdelegates acting deliberately contrary to the demonstrated will of the party membership would be at the behest of the party insiders (who presumably make up the rest of the superdelegates), since the party organizations hold an inordiante amount of power as the gatekeepers of opportunities for politicians looking to move up from State to Federal races (traslating almost directly into offices in so many of the gerrymandered HR districts). I've never been too clear on how accountable the party officials really are to the membership as a whole, as opposed to being accountable to the career politicians and professional organizers within the middle eschelons of the party ranks (this goes for both parties).

I could imagine it being hypothetically possible for all of the superdelegates to coordinate, but agree that it's extremely unlikely that they would. That combination then leads me to wonder about what purpose the exisence of the superdelegates serve in the first place.