All of south Texas’s super delegation have committed to Hillary Clinton–Henry Cuellar of San Antonio, Ruben Hinojosa of McAllen, and Solomon Ortiz of Corpus Christi, and Silvestre Reyes of El Paso.

The Democratic Party is a club and, as a private institution, which it is, is free to organize itself in any manner it wishes. So, counterintuitive as the idea of super delegates might be, as much as it stinks of the resurrection of the “smoke-filled rooms” of an older, less democratic era in party politics when only the appearance of democratic action was required for the smoke screen needed by the big boys… oh, you get the idea.

An inquiry or two brought a list of super delegates from the area. It appears that super delegates are the congressional delegation plus members of the DNC, the Democratic National Committee. Both groups, it seems, have already been elected by somebody, the congressional representatives by general election of course, and, wait, who elects the DNC?

Nobody would want all of life’s mysteries raised all at once, I’m sure.

Super delegates are in the news in part because Barak Obama’s supporters are finding that Hillary Clinton has already locked up commitments to large numbers of super delegates, enough, in fact, that there is some danger that she could be nominated despite an overwhelming popular election of regular delegates for Obama.