The hotly contested Democratic primary race has left Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Vice President Joe Biden vying for the 1,991 delegates required to secure the party’s presidential ...

The compromise was reached after a lengthy meeting in which Sanders supporters grew increasingly frustrated as their efforts on superdelegates were voted down. Discussing his proposal to eliminate ...

The Democratic primary contest is shaping up to be the closest since 1984. The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are preparing for a delegate battle. If the race goes down to the wire, an ...

From CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor and producer Phil Hirschkorn. Despite all the primaries and caucuses and millions of people voting, it is growing increasingly possible that neither Barack Obama ...

Depending on how you adjust the math, the answer may hinge on one thing: superdelegates. Primary season is a numbers game. The object for both parties is to be the first to hit the magic number of ...

As the Democratic nomination marathon neared a potential finish line, key senators said the results of Tuesday’s South Dakota and Montana primaries will have a domino effect on uncommitted ...

Before 2008, your average American might not have known what a Democratic Party superdelegate was. But that year these mysterious party insiders became a feature of the daily news cycle as the fierce ...

In a tight race, the Democratic Party's pick for presidential candidate could be decided by superdelegates -- 795 party insiders who are free to vote for anybody they want at the party's national ...

The 2020 presidential election is bound to be a barn burner, in more ways than one. In addition to a highly competitive field of Democratic candidates, how some delegates vote for their party ...

(Bloomberg) — Democrats voted Saturday to dramatically reduce the influence of superdelegates on the party’s presidential nomination process, part of an effort to move past the fissures of the 2016 ...

Democrats charged with reworking the “superdelegate” system took a big step Wednesday to change the way candidates will win the party’s nomination for president. The Rules and Bylaws Committee of the ...

Reporting from Washington — In a move aimed at getting past the acrimony from the 2016 presidential primary and unifying the party, the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to dramatically ...