JoB
Beachdrivegirl..
i know the race isn’t about the popular vote count… i know it isn’t about the polls.. or about the predictions of political pundits…
i know the race isn’t about political propaganda either.
i don’t bother reading either Hillary’s or Senator Obama’s web sites. i figure if they wanted me to know something.. they have already emailed me…
and i don’t read the political blogs much either except in when i follow the links you all post.
I just read the questions that you all pose, ask some of my own.. and go looking for the answers…
my regular contacts with the news are NPR … Amy Goodman.. the daily show…and i read a lot.. on the internet.. books and magazines… both at the library and at home. (I won’t pay for the magazines i occassionally read at the library. i only read them to find out what less progressive people are thinking.)
One thing i know… that you seem to have yet to figure out… is that in a race this close we won’t know what the delegate count actually is for a while yet… and i am not talking about superdelegtes who can and will change their minds at will.
The discussion about whether to count Florida isn’t over and won’t be unless one of them withdraws from the race.
Both candidates received substantial votes there and had equal opportunity.
Regardless of their blustering, do you really believe that the democratic party will totally fail to seat the delegates of two states in a close primary?
This is what the party fears far more than the superdelegates. They are just a great smokescreen which keeps people from asking the really tough questions.
They made a really bad choice and are going to have to find some way to give those citizens a voice…
it would be so much easier for them to pressure one of the candidates to withdraw…
I could go back and look at what the delegate count would be if michigan was split down the middle and florida was added.. but i won’t…
it doesn’t matter at this point…
what matters is what will happen in the next month… and we need to let that play out.
If the party is lucky.. there will be a clear winner… and we can all breathe a sigh of relief and get on with things..
If not.. the real politicking begins…
and that has absolutely nothing to do with the will of the people.. because if it gets that far it will be because… there is no clear will of the people…
all the rest of this on the way to the endgame is just noise… political noise meant to intimidate the other side.. but just noise.
the article above got it right.. in the primary.. it is essential not to alienate the black vote.. they are a huge democratic voting block.
but in the general election.. they don’t matter so much…
so.. how does hillary get from here to there? Win the nomination without p..g off the black vote?
that analysis is pretty accurate as well.
This is now Senator Obama’s race to lose.. and we will only know if he has lost it by watching the primaries play out.