Pelosi: Reduce Number of Superdelegates

(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she favors a reduction in the number of superdelegates _ and their oversized influence _ in choosing the Democratic Party’s nominee.

Superdelegates such as Pelosi have bemoaned the protracted fight between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama for the nomination. Neither candidate can win the nod based solely on pledged delegates. Rather the nearly 800 superdelegates _ members of Congress, election officials and party elders who aren’t bound by state results _ will decide the nomination.