Letters to the Editor
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Winner Take All!
Whoever wins the Democratic nomination will be confronted with the Republican dirty tricks, no matter what John McCain says. It only makes matters worse for the Democrats to continue to grind their ax for the candidate that they support. The way these primaries have sorted out the two Democrats continue to be too close in electoral votes, Obama predominantly winning the caucuses and Clinton predominantly winning the open primary States. Let's stop pushing our personal agendas, and our personal candidate preferences, and acknowledge that the problem for the Democrats is in the system. The system that the Democrats use to determine their candidate for presidency is broken, and must be changed.
But what do we do now? Well, obviously the Democrats knew that there might be a problem like this one, and that's why they created the "superdelegates." Let's let the system that is in place now play itself out. Let's not play into the opposition's (Republicans) hand by labeling it as unfair. It is the system that we have for better or worse. And let's unite behind the ultimate Democratic candidate, even if they win by one vote. Because the alternative is having John McCain as our next president, and the continuation of the Iraq war for 100 years, and a continuation of tax cuts for the wealthy, and not having health care reform, etc., etc., etc.