Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 406 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ djmagaro
[Read the article: Republicans key to Indiana primary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Terrible idea. Even if you don't call it a poll tax it is essentially what it would be called. We want to bring additional people into the party not turn the away.
Limbaugh or anyone else attempting to rig the process are idiots and here's why.
Even Karl Rove said he would never ask people to cross over to vote to muddy the process. Not because he's above doing that, but there has been consistent evidence that a sizable portion of those who cross over will vote again for the other party in the general.
Ezra Klein's book "Predictably Irrational" tells a bit about it. Once some people have made a choice, they will make that same choice again and again even if its against their own self interests.
There were Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1980 who believed him to be the weaker candidate (too far right). They haven't voted Democratic again. I'm not talking about so-called "Reagan Democrats" but moderate to left of center.
Also, people's first vote tend to be the party they stick with for a lifetime, and a lot of these Republicans crossing over tend to be younger.
So let Republicans vote in our primary. In the end, its just one more nail in their coffin.
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Dan Ariely wrote "Predicably Irrational"
[Read the article: Republicans key to Indiana primary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Getting some articles confused, but "Predicably Irrational" is the correct name of the book.
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Sam Stein @ Huffington Post writes:
[Read the article: Clinton responds to gas tax attacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/02/black-issues-group-price_n_99759.html
One of the nation's largest Black American grassroots advocacy organizations is drawing a line in the sand for Democratic leadership: if Hillary Clinton is awarded the nomination by overturning the pledged delegate count there will be a political price to pay.
Color of Change, which has a reach of more than 400,000 people, is organizing a petition campaign to persuade superdelegates and congressional leaders that a Clinton win through the hands of party insiders would "disenfranchise millions" and constitute "a shocking attack on voting rights and democracy."
Previous Color of Change petitions have had their effects. In response to the Jena Six scandal, the group generated responses from more than 300,000 members, roughly the equivalent of all voters in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
In this instance, they may have more political persuasion. The campaign plays off of an already existing concern within the party that a Clinton primary victory could leave the African-American community deeply distraught and less willing to offer its general election support.
On Thursday, McClatchy reported, "Many black voters are making it very clear: They're concerned that Barack Obama is going to be denied the Democratic presidential nomination that they see as rightfully his, and if that happens, a lot of them may stay home in November."
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@ AKA Smith RE: Dear Obama supporters:
[Read the article: Did Sidney Blumenthal cross the line?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You do understand the difference between some shmo who posts in the letters section of a Salon.com article and mass emails sent out by a senior advisor to a campaign, don't you?
The problem is always perception. Reality apparently doesn't matter during a campaign. For many of us, the reason we stuck with the Clintons through all the triangulations, corporatism, welfare reform, lying under oath, cattle futures, etc; is that we felt that the Republican were using sleazy tactics to get the Clintons however they could. Even through lies and innuendo. If it is perceived that the Clinton campaign is more than willing to use those same sleazy tactics against one of their own, they lose any sympathy we once had for them.
Any neutral person looking at this campaign (as polls have attested) can deny the fact that the Clinton campaign has coopted Republican style tactics, at just the moment the American people have finally gotten wise to their BS.
It's one of the reasons the once inevitable Mrs. Clinton continues to fight for her political life.
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How is what meffert wrote any more bitter or uglier than
[Read the article: Tight race in Guam caucuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, there's absolutely no getting around the fact that Obama has won only ONE big state in this game - his home turf, IL. Obama's lead in the popular vote can be boiled down to his advantage in one county and that's Cook and that's synonymous with Chicago. C'mon, give it up - for Hillary supporters, there'll be no tears tonight but instead, a lot of champagne corks popping - yah!