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OK..What's going to be the reaction in the dem. party? - Fo Shizzle - 03-05-2008 09:21 PM
If Obama enters the convention with as little as a 1 delegate lead....and...the SuperDelegates that make up 20% of the total delegates..(aprox 400) and are NOT bound by the primary or caucus system of the Dem. party....Choose to select Hillary Clinton.?
Will the Dem. Party be able to evade the hipocracy of railing over the "disenfranchized voters of Florida in 02" ...if this situation occurs?
Im really pulling for this to happen...The entertainment value alone will be tremendous.
RE: OK..What's going to be the reaction in the dem. party? - WoodlandsOwl - 03-05-2008 09:30 PM
Well, I found this.. apparently the DNC is trying to find a way to make Florida and Michigan Delegates "count" after all...
Howard Dean will not bend the party rules to grandfather in the disputed delegates from Michigan and Florida, the Democratic party chairman said in a statement today.
Instead, he put the state parties on notice: either they can wait and allow the credentials committee to decide whether to seat their delegates, or submit to a re-vote sanctioned under DNC rules. "We look forward to receiving their proposals should they decide to submit new delegate selection plans and will review those plans at that time," he said in the statement.
"Everyone seems to be asking what the DNC will do," a Democrat close to Dean said. "But the question is: what will the state parties do."
Dean's statement implies that he has no intention of changing the rules to accommodate any solution proposed by the candidates or the state parties. There has been some suggestion that the two remaining presidential candidates might try to broker a deal among themselves. His line in the sand narrows the options for Hillary Clinton's campaign because it is unlikely that a credentials committee would endorse a delegation congenial to her mathematical interests.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/dnc_encouraging_florida_and_mi.php
RE: OK..What's going to be the reaction in the dem. party? - Fo Shizzle - 03-05-2008 10:32 PM
WMD Owl Wrote:Well, I found this.. apparently the DNC is trying to find a way to make Florida and Michigan Delegates "count" after all...
Howard Dean will not bend the party rules to grandfather in the disputed delegates from Michigan and Florida, the Democratic party chairman said in a statement today.
Instead, he put the state parties on notice: either they can wait and allow the credentials committee to decide whether to seat their delegates, or submit to a re-vote sanctioned under DNC rules. "We look forward to receiving their proposals should they decide to submit new delegate selection plans and will review those plans at that time," he said in the statement.
"Everyone seems to be asking what the DNC will do," a Democrat close to Dean said. "But the question is: what will the state parties do."
Dean's statement implies that he has no intention of changing the rules to accommodate any solution proposed by the candidates or the state parties. There has been some suggestion that the two remaining presidential candidates might try to broker a deal among themselves. His line in the sand narrows the options for Hillary Clinton's campaign because it is unlikely that a credentials committee would endorse a delegation congenial to her mathematical interests.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/dnc_encouraging_florida_and_mi.php
Im not really talking about the "uncounted" primary votes...but...yes the DNC is has a problem with this hipcrocay also...Im talking about the senario that could occur at the convention with the UberDelegates possibly overturning the primary voter/caucus mandate....Anyone remember Chicago 1968?