Letters to the Editor
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842,653 Votes for Hillary in Florida
Sorry, but that's a BIG something in my book. That's 842,653! That's a crazy number. 300,000 more than Obama. She'd be a fool not to fight to have them seated. Not like that will happen, but it's a statement loud and clear. Altogether, 1.5 million people who want their voices heard. Someone should listen.
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It is a big deal
Florida is one of the largest states in the nation, and it is likely to play a pivotal role in the November elections. This is like the biggest, most official, poll that will be done in Florida, and the winner is Clinton. That bodes well for her. The spin, however, is a different matter. It is being played out as "Clinton wins meaningless victory". It would actually be more realistic to assign the "meaningless victory" to South Carolina, since it is unlikely to play any role in the eventual election of a Democratic President. A realistic assessment, however, does not fit the media storyline involving the rise of Obama, so I won't expect to hear it anywhere prominent.
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Why Florida Shouldn't Count
Imagine you're a Democrat from Florida, stung by the DNC's decision to not count your delegates at the convention. One of the candidates gives an indication that she'll fight to get your delegates counted at the convention, the other two candidates stick with the DNC's decision.
Naturally, Florida Democrats show up and vote for the candidate that has given an indication that she'll try to work to get the Florida delegates counted at the convention.
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What Burton says "doesn't amount to anything."
I've been googling to find the source for the Burton claim Hillary said the Michigan and Florida votes "don't count for anything." The only source I can find is...David Plouffe, Obama's campaign spokesman, who made the charge without any attribution as to when or where or in what context the words were ever uttered by Mrs. Clinton. But it's been repeated over and over in the media and now Burton uses it again. Perhaps an Obama supporter can give us some evidence that Hillary said this?
And to dismiss 800,000 Democrats making their own choices for their candidate doesn't sound like "new politics" to me. Maybe that youthful novice to the political scene, Ted Kennedy, advised on this spin.
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As Expected
The results in Florida are exactly what you would expect and the campaign responses are too. The bottom line is this result could have been predicted months ago, based on Hillary's name recognition and lack of exposure for Obama. It is somewhat revolting that the Clinton campaign is shamefully spinning this to be something more based on all their previous comments about Florida, although at this point, no one should be surprised.
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so, let's figure this out...
"Imagine you're a Democrat from Florida, stung by the DNC's decision to not count your delegates at the convention. One of the candidates gives an indication that she'll fight to get your delegates counted at the convention, the other two candidates stick with the DNC's decision.
Naturally, Florida Democrats show up and vote for the candidate that has given an indication that she'll try to work to get the Florida delegates counted at the convention."
Let's see how this works in the REAL world...ericagainstthem is, let's imagine, a Democrat in Florida, who supports Obama. But because Clinton says she'll work to get Florida delegates seated, sensible eric decides to vote for HER, instead of Obama, so SHE will win more delegates.
Nope, I'm wrong. That scenario only works in a bizarro world, not the real one.
wow.
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Fight over Florida's significance
The media and the Obama camp would like everyone to believe there isn't any significance to the Florida vote.
The simple fact is that well over 1.5 million Democrats voted today in Florida. It does matter. It also matters that the primary season is totally non sensical. Get rid of Iowa's caucuses and vote by private ballots at the same time in every state, or divide the primary season into 4 areas with the times of voting set by a raffle.
The National Democratic Party should be fair to all states, and stop this nonsense of "Crime and Punishment>"
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Actually it's Clinton that's doing the only cackling.
In her 'victory' smichtory speech to the newspeople she used the word 'victory' about 9 times. But, when push comes to shove Obama -without having done any campaigning work - did better overall in Florida than Clinton.
She's about the only one who calls it a victory, because actually she's lost a lot of ground.
Even Fox told a different story that coincided with the other cable shows:
She won most of her votes from those cast weeks ago. Fox's exit polls showed that she won slightly less than half of todays voters. Were the vote based on todays voters only Obama would have won. ( as of about 10:00 pm )
She's also beginning to lose Latino voters -6 out of 10 average from early ballots to todays - compared with Nevada.
When they both start to cry, will anyone hear?
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Hillary got 164,000 more votes than the republican primary winner,
McCain (693,425). And the delegates didn't even count. That is something.
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Every Hillary victory is denied, everything Obama does is a win.
When will this silly bias stop? Hillary's not only won in Florida, her win was overwhelming, and puts the lie to her apparent loss in SC. It also reveals the paltriness of the effect of Ted Kennedy's, Obama endorsement. Hillary-haters are all stupefied with media lies and treachery. There's not a nickel's worth of difference between their campaigns, yet you'd think they were political opposites, with the pro Obama propaganda, obliterating common sense, all around us. Why is much made, of very little? Because the real differences between Hillary and Obama, must be minimized at Hillary's expense. Despite all the oppressive small talk, Hillary easily bests Obama with experience, and with her clear-cut programs for the "change" that Obama has tried to make his own, with soulful rhetoric, but little in the way of persuasive and realistic, hard proposals. The stubborn refusal to acknowledge the painfully obvious effect of "race" in Obama's SC win, are deceitful; and trivialize Obama's efforts. The hypocrisy of pretending that Hillary's huge win in Forida is "meaningless," because no delegates are assigned... "yet," proves, to me, that nearly all the blind antagonism against Hillary is media inspired, and worsens by the day, because the media moguls, have little time to defeat Hillary, before the nomination goes her way. The bitter attacks on Hillary in media, have become so obvious to everyone, that I've even heard some people that have been promoting those attacks, conceding that this treachery against Hillary is going on. Never have I seen such a persistent attack on a candidate, on the preposterous grounds, that her campaign is a failure, when the clear evidence has been, so far, that she has been accumulating more and more wins, and has every likelyhood of continuing her victories. The viciousness and plain, mindless unreasonableness directed at her, is cowardly and an embarrassement to every clear headed person.