Superdelegates

Why Nominate Someone Who Has Less Than Half the Party Supporting Them?


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Nick Kelly's picture

I just posted a diary over at MyDD asking whether people think its a good idea for the Democratic Party to nominate someone with less than half the support of the Democratic Party.

Stan in the Miami Herald (briefly)


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Stan4Clark's picture

Click here for the whole article.  Scroll to the bottom, where it says "Center of Attention" for the good stuff.

Fla. superdelegates could be super tiebreakers

Superdelegates could emerge as super tiebreakers -- but whether Florida's votes will count remains undecided.

The Democratic Tea Party that brought Obama to Earth


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Nick Kelly's picture

Senator Obama and some of his supporters came to the Democratic tea party; boasted without justification; wrongfully criticized, unconscionably misrepresented, and berated other guests over and over; were politely

Stan in the news...you ain't gonna believe this


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Stan4Clark's picture

About two hours ago, I finished a phone interview with the Miami Freakin' Herald!!!

It was pretty short, so we'll see. Maybe there'll be something in the Sunday Herald, according to the reporter.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!

New faces in political trenches: Stan in the news


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Stan4Clark's picture

Link.  I don't get the Rocky Mountain News except on Saturdays, so I don't know if it's in the print version.  It was advertised as a web feture.

New faces in political trenches
Everyday people inundate 'supers' to try to tip balance
By M.E. Sprengelmeyer
Originally published 12:05 a.m., April 14, 2008
Updated
05:52 a.m., April 14,

2008 Day after day, the messages keep coming.

Sometimes they're polite. Often they're indignant. But urgency comes through every time."Dear Pat," one e-mail begins. "Never in my life of 37 years have I been as excited about a candidate as I am about Barack Obama . . . But the Democratic Party is in danger of dashing my support.

"Or, "Dear Ms. Waak," another starts. "Please lend your support to Hillary Clinton . . . I believe that the support for Obama is not well thought out and is being driven by the notion that it is trendy and cool to support him. Hillary is a grown-up . . .

Dear Democrats - Obama campaign played the race card first, second, third, etc.


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The Clintons are not racists and Hillary's campaign most definitely has not played the race card. Nonetheless, the media is full of stories designed to make Democrats as well as other voters think the opposite. Today, however, there is a rare voice of reason which begins to set the record straight on this matter. It's the voice of Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz in an Op Ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "Obama was the first to play the race card".

Calling all Superdelegates – Your wisdom needed to avert potential disaster.


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Nick Kelly's picture

Here we are, my fellow Democrats (and friends who are reading this), on a hugely important mission to change the disastrous course we have been following for the past 7, soon to be 8, years, and we haven’t yet quite made up our minds as to which of our talented Democrats should be piloting our course home.

'Denver, we have a problem….'

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