2/19/2008

Go figure!

This can get confusing!

We must obey the rules. Michigan and Florida cannot be counted because that’s the rules the DNC laid out to punish these states for holding early primaries. It doesn’t matter that voters in these states are disenfranchised.

We must break the rules. Superdelegates cannot count, although this system has been in place for years. The votes of U.S. citizens must count.

And speaking of superdelegates:

According to a report on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (LINK), Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama “have both thrown cash - and a lot of it - into the campaign chests of fellow Democrats who also just happen to be superdelegates.”

A spokesman for the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics said he doesn’t believe the two candidates were trying to buy votes, but were “building relationships. They were doing what all politicians do.”

CNN correspondent David Mattingly reports: “Since 2005, the Center says that Senator Clinton contributed more than $280,000 to superdelegates and that Senator Obama handed out almost $700,000.”

According to the Center, there is a direct correlation between the amounts of money given and superdelegate support.

Oh, and according to Mattingly, “Democrats tell us this came at a time when there were a lot of Democrats helping other Democrats in a critical election cycle. Hillary Clinton herself was running for re-election in 2006. Guess who contributed to her campaign? Barack Obama, a total of $4,200.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I must have been a dunce in civics class. Where do superdelegates come from? At what point did they enter the picture, and who let them in? Does everybody else know these things? Eowyn

Anonymous said...

It is confusing, to say the least. What is amazing is to listen to one of the "Creators" try to defend the concept. With the absolute best of intentions, some very good people proved that the Republicans do not have a stranglehold on stupidity. Frodo

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