"Superdelegate" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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And slightly earlier:

Michael Dobbs, 'Political Earthquake' Washington Post, The (DC) - July
23, 1981 p. A1 (in reference to Polish politics)
"The tone of the debate was reflected in the speech of a railway worker
who got up to complain about what he described as "the system of
delegates and superdelegates , of mandates and supermandates." "

And way earlier:
Edmond Taylor "King and Queen Give Party; Envoys Dazzled" Chicago Daily
Tribune; Jun 18, 1933;  p. 1
"Delegates, super-delegates, sub-delegates, experts, and their wives all
put on their top hats, their cutaway coats, their gates-ajar collars and
their floweriest aftertnoon gowns and made their way today to Windsor
Castle, where King George and Queen Mary were hosts at a garden party in
honour of the delegations to the conference."

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> Thanks, Ben.  Here's slightly earlier:
>
> 1981 _Wash. Post_ 8 Nov. A15/5 (ProQuest Historical
> Newspapers)  Barbara Fife, a reform Democrat from New York,
> said, "I'm opposed to having these super-status,
> super-delegates come in and pick our nominee."
>
> Fred Shapiro
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> On Feb 12, 2008 7:39 PM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> >
> > "Superdelegate," although not new, is emerging into newfound
> > prominence.  The earliest occurrence on Nexis is the following:
> >
> > 1983 _N.Y. Times_ 22 Dec. (Nexis)  Even so, the party's
> only black Presidential candidate, the Rev.
> > Jesse Jackson, is expected to include this class of
> ''superdelegates''
> > in a challenge to delegate selection rules.
>
> There's a column by George McGovern in the May 15, 1982 issue
> of _The Nation_ that discusses "super delegates". I don't
> have a subscription to the magazine's archive, but the
> snippets available on Google News Archive show "super
> delegates" appearing at least three times in the column.
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> 1982 George McGovern _Nation_ 15 May (online) Two thirds of
> them -- approximately 550 -- will be "super delegates"
> uncommitted to any candidate.
> http://www.thenation.com/archive/detail/11161824
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> --Ben Zimmer
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