I'd like to know what idiot decided that the best punishment for moving up elections would be to disenfranchise democratic voters from two of the most populous states. Isn't this the kind of thing that democrats like to accuse republicans of?
As we near the democratic convention, things are still up in the air. Obama maintains his lead while Clinton slowly closes the gap. Clinton "won" in Florida and Michigan where a significant number of voters stayed home, assuming that their votes wouldn't count anyway.
This of course, sets up a controversy at least as big as the "hanging chads" of 2000. All of a sudden, Ms. Clinton is concerned about the voting rights of these people whom she really couldn't care less about otherwise. The delegates from these states could be what she needs to pull ahead of Obama.
If Sen. Clinton is perceived as using questionable tactics and super-delegates to win this nomination, I think that a very large number of the democrat-registered voters will stay home in November.
This puts the democrats in a terrible quandary. If they don't find a way to resolve this issue before the Democratic National Convention, I think they will go in -- and come out of that convention a house divided.
The republicans could be smiling all the way to November because of this, except that the best they could come up with is John McCain. He's generated about as much excitement as watching a dog take a dump. (Thanks a lot, Mr. Huckabee!)
I guess we'll see how this plays out. So get your popcorn and enjoy the show. It will at least be entertaining.
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As far as the automatic delegates/ nicknamed superdelegates by the media, so far, Obama is ahead in the number of these, so I don't see what the big deal is, as well he is ahead in the elected delegates, and it's these, and the automatic delegates that determines the nominee.
The playing field in Florida was sort of level, but since he lost anyway I do not think Obama running ads in that state is sufficient reason not to accept the results of the Florida primary as cast.
Michigan is a bit trickier, due to Obama's name not being on the ballot, but there was an option for voters who wanted to vote for other than Hillary. While not all people who selected the "uncommitted delegate option would have voted for Obama if all the candidates name were on the ballot, The fairest thing there would probably to recognize the Hillary delegates that were elected and award the "uncommitted delegates' to Obama.
Dave H.
If Hillary loses I hope she sues you for libel. The Clintons did not murder anybody and in the absence of any accusation by legal authorities assertions that they did are either slanderous or libelous. Secondly if there were grounds for any such accusations I am sure Huckabee would have seen to the that they were prosecuted. The same goes for any other violations of which you accuse them. Some of the presumed crimes were so fallacious that even after spending millions in exhaustive investigation Ken Starr did not choose to prosecute or supply evidence to other proper authority.