| @Sleuth:
I agree with you that yes, it is easy to sit in front of our computers and whine and complain about what's wrong with the system and that certainly what's truly needed is a solution.
You're correct in that the superdelegates were a concession by the Democratic Party. They were put in place after George McGovern's disastrous election campaign back in the 70s. I believe the party elders were trying to make sure that a man like George McGovern, who was perceived as weak by his own party (after the fact, of course), would not get nominated again. But the true fact about their creation, as read on huffingtonpost.com, is that they were implemented, basically, as a tool to usurp the public decision on a nominee. Because the number of superdelegates in relation to the total number of delegates would likely give them that power.
And I hope that I didn't misunderstand this sentence, but like you said, the devil is in the details. Meaning that anyone that is a citizen of their own country should really be practicing good civic duty by simply doing an easy web search of what a candidate's policies are and at least understand how their political system works, roughly. One has to know the truth about what's wrong before they can go out as the town crier.
That's why this is such a multi-faceted issue:
a) We need to know the truth to be good citizens
b) "Truth" is what is fed to us by our news media, which may or may not be doing their job
c) News media panders to the lowest common denominator and our most base instincts of sex, conflict, and drama
d) Sex, conflict, and drama shroud our other human capacity for stoic judgment
e) Our stoic judgment is measured in our capacity to be good citizens
f) Recycle a/b/c/d/e/f
Certainly, I don't have the answers, but the opportunity to talk about possible answers is always a benefit. Were more people to actually discuss the specificities of policy issues without boiling them down to one-liners than perhaps people would also be more aware of other things, like the FISA amendments and such (which was getting television advertising airtime on CNN in support of it).  | 
