Dem of Hypocracy

The primary rules are set by the parties. The DNC was pretty emphatic that states were supposed to stay within set dates. Voters in both states may not like it but their state parties are the ones who screwed up, not the DNC. My only problem with primaries is that they should not be paid for by the taxpayers as this constitutes a blessing of only those two parties and it can be argued that the majority of voters belong to neither.

I think the Florida votes should count, because the voters were again disenfranchised by the Republican legislature. I also think Michigan should be penalized in some way, but not all the delegates. It was pretty harsh, but they should have abided by the rules. I don't think they can count the votes since there were only two candidates on the ballot, and one isn't even in the race anymore. That would be just too biased in Hillary's favor. I say they divide Michigan, and count the Florida votes.

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I still say you come up with some other form of punishment that does not tamper with the sanctity of one person, one vote.

Aside from the name calling, I agree with you Dan. I also think that trying to include those votes as they stand now isn't fair, considering all of the circumstances, and coming up with a formula doesn't really reflect the will of the voters either. FL and MA knew what the punishment was going to be and did it anyway, so accept it and move on.

I'm not the one that needs to accept this. Being from Pennsylvania and being a Republican, I'm only indirectly affected.

I just think that, given all that was said about the Florida elections in 2000, the DNC could have come up with something other than punishing citizens.

Why should the DNC or the RNC care about when a state holds its primary election anyway? My gut feeling is that they just wanted things wrapped up early because they were so sure Hillary would win and wanted her to get a head start on prepping for the general election.

Guess that didn't work out the way they expected, huh?

Interesting view. ALL the candidates make me sick!

This is an incredibly weak article, even by your incredibly weak standards.

Anyone who's been paying attention knows that it was the republiCON legislatures in those states that moved up the primaries, and effectively hog-tied the DNC.




"Both remaining candidates' silence was deafening at the time the elections were held."

In FACT, all democratic candidates agreed to leave their names off those state's ballots, because by moving the primary up, they violated DNC rules.




"Now that it's a close race"

In what parallel universe is this a close race? Clinton has to win nearly 200% of all remaining delegates in the next two primary state races in order to make this close. How do you figure she's going to be able to do that?



Given the fact that no democratic names except Clinton's were on the ballots for those state's primaries, how is it even considered a viable option to count the votes?

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Clark ... with all due respect, you're an idiot. I believe Hillary kept her name on both ballots.

Hillary can still wrangle up super-delegates. Don't think she won't try any trick in the book -- even at the cost of losing the general election -- to win the nomination.

Dan here is a ten for you

"I believe Hillary kept her name on both ballots."

That's what I just said, idiot. Learn to read.




"Hillary can still wrangle up super-delegates."

Keep praying. It won't help you, but by all means, keep praying that you don't have to run against Obama in November.

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Clark ... we all know that McCain has a tough row to hoe against either candidate but, God knows, the dems are doing everything they can to help him.

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