To all Democrats with an interest in the North Carolina Democratic primary election, I feel your pain. As you prepared to go to the polls, you were told by the candidates that your vote could make a difference.

Sorry. Your nominee will be decided by good old back-room politics of superdelegates, not chosen by you but by the party. But wait, you might say, you can still influence that outcome by your vote, right?

The superdelegates will surely not resist the will of the people.

Sorry. N.C. Gov. Mike Easley, arguably one of the more influential of the superdelegates, has already decided that he ain't waitin' and has endorsed U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton.

So if your candidate won or lost in North Carolina, it matters not to Easley.

Why even have the election to measure the will of the voters when Easley could care less what you think? Such arrogance.

STEVE SMITH

Chocowinity