Letters to the Editor
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Superdelegates are hardly "inside the beltway"
Jerry Meek, the chair of the D party in NC doesn't have an office in Washington. Why are you regurgitating misleading information? Superdelegates cover a wide range of people and positions.
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Beneficiaries?
And so after today, who will benefit from the extended primary season? Just wonderin'.
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Hope So
Let's hope so. I am spending a great deal of time in blue collar America and their is a great deal of burn out. Hearing lots of folks saying that they are tired of the in fighting.
I think the Clinton's have done some real damage with all of their undermining of Obama. Some permanent damage.
In a year that should be a "slam dunk" for the Democrats, I fear they could blow it. Again
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Obama
Did permanent damage to himself. If he's the nominee and he loses, it's his fault. No one else.
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ah wes
I was about to post one long refutation of your latest inane scribblings but instead i'll just let you be, knowing that, at best, you've come to resemble Alfred E. Neuman.
cheers!
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wes really doesn't get it!
It'll be no one's fault if obama or hillary wins the nomination and loses the election. mccain will have received more votes. It's not an issue of fault. At some point, it becomes the will of the people. I know how much you hate the will of the people.
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I don't know why you people are thrilled that the next president will be decided
By shady backroom deals with 'superdelegates' most of whom are unknown, unelected, and unaccountable. That seems to fly in the face of your "hope" mantra. Hope for what? Machine politics and Boss Tweed?
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Do your homework, robot
Most supers are unknown? Ummmmmmmmmmmmm:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/apache.3cdn.net/5ccfd47d2b931d9253_bzm6bn91f.pdf
Free education.
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also
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegate-list.html
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@Electro Robot
You're so right Electro Robot. No way should the decision be left to the super delegates, the nomination should go to the person who wins the most elected delegates, which would be...oh yeah, not your preferred candidate. Face it, Clinton's only hope of getting the nomination is for the super delegates to ignore the pledged delegate count and the popular vote in the states that followed the rules. Now THAT is ignoring the will of the voters.
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I'll even vote for Hillary
Just please God, let it be over already. I won't be an atheist for one day, I swear (I don't know what I'm talking to..)!
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End of the world may be approaching sooner too
If Obama gets the nod, I predict MAJOR changes in the 2 political parties, McCain will get the votes and the presidency, and the Democratic party will be in ruins never to be heard from again. This may be exactly what we need because at this point they are making Rush Limbaugh look smart and sane.....
WAKE UP PEOPLE. WAKE THE FUCK UP.
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I'll say one thing
Reading the letters here and elsewhere in Salon, there's a lot of passion for your candidate -- be it Clinton or Obama.
All the name-calling and back-and-forth was irking me, but then I remembered 2004. I was for Edwards, but everybody talked about how electable Kerry was because of his military record. So we had a candidate most of us were lukewarm about.
This year, there's passion!
Hey, is anybody passionate about McCain? Only the diehard Repugs who care only about their money, or the diehard Repugs who would never vote anything but Repug no matter how much it goes against their interests.
So: Glory be to all the passion for our candidates!
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ProudTexasGirl
How about you back up your predictions with the logic that leads to them? What would cause the democratic party to fail? People like you jumping ship because you're too friggin stupid to see the big picture? And you're PROUD? You're a joke, plain and simple. You're a sorry excuse for a democrat. Disgusting.
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@texasgirl
That's funny! If you just add a whit to your final line there, uyou sound just like Daniel Carver, the KKK guy from Howard Stern. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though!
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But Look at who is Sitting on the Fence
The interesting thing about the remaining Superdelegates
is that a good chunk of them come from states that went for Obama and another large chunk comes from CA which went for Clinton. Seems to me they are contemplating going against their States decision or they would have already come out. There are also a whole lot of Party Officials remaining uncommitted, and they I think they, far more than elected members of Congress, are going to be the wildcards.
My favoite quote from these fencesitter is Bob Filner, Representative, CA who said "It's my dream that each side will get 2,024 delegates, and I'll cast the deciding vote." Well lets all hope not.
This list a bit out of date as Obama picked up three more yesterday but it is the most recent I could find.
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/superdelegates/index.html
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@dfield latest delegates (from MSNBC)
Chuck Todd seems to have been pretty accurate so far:
The Delegate Counts:
SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 272.5-256
PLEDGED:
Obama 1,492-1,338
OVERALL: Obama 1,748-1,610.5http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/06/985814.aspx#comments
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@ texasgirl
Tex girl said...This may be exactly what we need because at this point they are making Rush Limbaugh look smart and sane...
you're kidding right?...a lobotomy couldn't make Limbaugh smart or sane.