While I am rather pleased to see the Democrats take their nomination fight all the way to Denver, here's a little moral support for keeping out the Florida and Michigan primary results. As a Conservative, I listen half-believingly to Democrat cries of "voter disenfranchisement" as we're hearing from the Clinton camp.
That being said, this situation might fit the category of "disenfranchisement" as the voters of these two states had no other choice in the matter and--because of foolish, knowing decisions of their state legislatures, will be denied a vote in the Democratic primary if the DNC stands by its prior pronouncements.
Which highlights another strength of the Clintons' argument, that this is merely a dispute over the internal rules of a political party. As a result, the situation is a little bit different than in Florida2000 and NJ2002 where Dems expediently ignored state statutes to reach a desired end.
Oh well, I guess this post isn't all that supportive of the Obama position . . . Fight on Democrats!!
If those walls could talk
4 hours ago
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Harold Ickes, Hillary's own campaign adviser, was the one who created the rules and voted to 'disenfranchise' Michigan and Florida...if she had spoken up when the initial ruling took place, maybe something could've happened. But to go in after the pre-season scrimmage is played and try to have it counted as a playoff game; is just a power-play.
The rules were in place for a good reason...to prevent us from pushing primaries back into 2007. If the DNC ignores the rules altogether, then they mean nothing, and the primary process will get pushed up even further in 2012/2016.
I agree, and I'd say any person (regardless of party or candidate) can agree that one good thing about this particular Democratic Party race is it made every state--regardless of where it was in the primary calendar, significant.
Even though Obama would like this thing over yesterday (hey, it may have been!), the long primary will certainly steel him for a general election and potentially make issues like the Rev. Dr. Wright "old news."
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