Letters to the Editor
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Mccain will gain
Wow, facing the Clintons in November was already good for Mccain. But facing them after this little coup they are planning - which amounts to stealing the primary - will be priceless.
Hope you all are ok with that...I am.
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It's About Defeating the Republicans
Enough already with the vitriol and mudslinging. All it proves is that we Democrats--and this country--haven't moved past the issues of gender and race. That's frightening. Even more frightening is the prospect of another Republican administration. Yes, both Clinton and Obama are vexing candidates, but the goal is the Presidency. Focus your energy on defeating the Republicans, not ourselves.
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WOW..In the moment of a historical event!!! WOW!!!!
America is about to experience a Threshold Moment..Get Ready!!!!
it is thrilling living in this moment..
My dream is coming true a Black man in the White House..
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy...
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Regarding Name Recognition
I am not complaining that Hillary Clinton has better name recognition, that is simply a fact by virtue of being the wife of a 2 term President. Better name recognition leads to a higher comfort level. That is part of marketing.
People tend to make decisions emotionally, then look for reasons to justify their decisions. With more emotional distance there is less reason to decide "yes".
That is why candidates embark on campaigns. If all we depend on is national media then I suppose we can forgo local camapaigns.
I stand by my observation, it's a biased sample. If the Dem Party leadership really really really screwed up, I hope they are behind closed doors right now doing something to fix this mess. But fixing does not include rolling over and using delegates from an "election" that was deemed invalid from the onset and is invalid post-"primary".
It's just invalid.
Calling any of this "Hillary-hate" is absolutely childish. This is a problem of the entire Democratic Party.
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Of course she won
She got the most votes, in a state where the people were told their votes wouldn't count and where, maybe significantly, there hadn't been a barrage of ads or putrid punditry by the new popes of the press. People just came and voted. Now, of course, the huge lead in Florida must be discounted/suppressed, because it didn't make the Anointed One the winner. It's appalling to me how this result is being glossed over, or worse, being used as "proof" that she cheats. All the candidates were on the ballot. There were other propositions on the ballot that got Democrats out, and they voted. More people voted for Hillary than for McCain. (Oh. I'm deeply sorry. Hillary can't win against McCain, of course. How foolish of me to disagree with the Obama Bible of Self-Serving Speculation.)
Now, as to whether they should be counted, here's the way it goes. If Obama's up in the delegate count, they won't count unless he doesn't need the delegates. If Hillary's up in the delegate count, and it isn't the deciding margin to count her victories in Florida and Michigan, they will count. What decides that? Can you say, "politics?"
About how we got to ignore the votes of two populous, delegate-rich states, particularly in Florida, where the Republican legislature snookered the Democrats into this, well, I don't know. Mr. Dean, you're a great guy, and I love what you're doing generally, but I think we got screwed here.
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I strongly feel that Florida voters took this seriously....
First of all, no one is as disappointed in this primary mess the state legislature got us into than I am. After suffering through the debacle of 2000 to be disenfranchised of our vote is unconscionable. However so our state leadership failed us, and however the Florida delegates count or don't count, I know of no one that voted on Tuesday that did not at least feel that, one way or the other, their vote means something. I did not go to the polls because I didn't have anything better to do, and I did not vote for Barrack Obama blindly or without intense thought. I think the results indicate that Hillary has much stronger appeal in a huge demographic like Florida than I would have thought, and I think that Obama suddenly realizes that Clinton may steamroll the rest of the way to the convention. Maybe the delegates won't be seated, maybe our delegate count won't count. But don't tell me that we didn't express our commitment to the democratic process when Florida voted on Tuesday.
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Hillary
Re: "If the candidates had campaigned in Florida or had stroked the Floridian's egos the way that Hillary did..."
What do you mean stroked the Floridian's egos? Who knows. The FACT is that Hillary did not campaign in Florida. Obama, however, ran television ads in Florida, and he still lost.
I have no doubt that if Obama had won Florida by hundreds of thousands of votes, he would move to seat the delegates, using the argument that 'Washington Insiders' are trying to disenfranchise Florida.
This is politics, not summer camp. Hillary is doing nothing wrong.
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The DNC should stick to its guns
As a Michigander and a Democrat, I am very disappointed in party chairman Mark Brewer's hope and belief that the DNC will cave and seat our delegates. With only one of the three major candidates on the ballot, the delegates as they were distributed do NOT reflect the will of the people. To seat them after such a sham of a primary would disenfranchise a huge proportion of Michigan's Democratic voters. Hillary Clinton won 55% of the "vote" - a number I'm sure would have been smaller had many Democrats not crossed over to vote for any-Republican-but-Romney thinking that their votes would be worth more in doing so - or just stayed home.
Michigan's goal in moving the primary was to have more influence in the process. The opposite result has been achieved. If nothing else, I hope we've illustrated how broken the process is, and I hope people ask why the DNC so strenuously defends a process that has not served it well.
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PEOPLE WENT INTO THE VOTING BOOTH AND VOTED FOR HILLARY BY A LAGE MARGIN...
Duh, she won.
Florida is not a bubble where the citizens have never heard the issues or don't follow the campaigns. Florida IS IMORTANT. Obama had campaign commercial running in Florida.
The voters made their choice, I say Hillary Clinton WON. It was a very smart political move for her to go and court the voters. Florida is huge. Florida will play a big part in the general election, regardless of delegates or no delegates.
The DNC WAS WRONG and we have not heard the end of this battle.