Unlike delegates awarded through primaries and caucuses, superdelegates are not required to stay pledged to a specific candidate. In 2008, the Democratic Party has designated 796 super delegates.

A slate of primaries in Maryland, West Virginia and Nebraska on Tuesday set the stage for competitive November general ...

Former vice president Joe Biden has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination ... the basis of results in primaries and caucuses.

the last Democratic Party-only debate before the Super Tuesday presidential primaries matched the two remaining candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who debated issues including ...

In the United States electoral system, primaries and caucuses are elections ... delegates to national conventions, where each party's presidential candidates are nominated. The February 9 New ...

and was better organized than any previous Democratic campaign." Their strategy was to win primaries to demonstrate John Kennedy's electability to the party bosses. There were only sixteen ...

The presidential election of ... Johnson was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and as a sitting president, he should have won his party's nomination without any trouble.

But for Democrats to secure a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, experts agree that the party’s primary for Oregon ... MAGA Republican mega-donors are interfering in Democratic ...

The presidential ... Democratic primaries (largely held in the South and West) with the strong support of the Ku Klux Klan. But for precisely that reason, he was totally unacceptable to the party ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary ... votes were cast in the 2008 primary between ...

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential ... the 2008 primary between Obama and Clinton. Voters had until March 14 to request a mail-in absentee ballot. According to party ...