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yes, and legitimately so
"If Clinton beats the odds and wins the Democratic nomination, Republicans will say she stole it."
It's not just whether the republicans will do so, criticizing the role of the superdelegates, but whether or not criticizing the the superdelegates is intrinically just-- and it is.
They exist to prevent somebody whom party hierarchy disapprove of from gaining the nomination. It's as plain and simple as that, however reluctant democrats maybe to acknowledge this openly. And while it may be too late to fix the democratic electoral system this go around, even if Obama gets the nomination-- and he probably will-- the problem wont go away by itself and they'll need to fix it eventually, preferably before 2012.