21 blog reactions to http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8353.html

Dems head for messy nomination process - Roger Simon - Politico.com The young man with Obama is Jason Rae, and he is both the youngest and youngest Democratic superdelegate ever. Why is he important? ‘Cos he could very well help to decide the fate of the country. Oh, and he

going to seat them if they could make the difference in who wins and who loses? As I said, a fine mess. Which, quite possibly, could lead to something we are not used to: a convention that is more than just a TV show whose ending we know in advance. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8353.html Super Tuesday won't hand the nomination to Hillary February 4, 2008 ROBERT NOVAK novakevans@aol.com Terrence McAuliffe, the wheeler-dealer imposed by the Clintons on the Democratic National Committee as its chairman after the 2000 election, quickly

As I already said, Super Tuesday did jack in picking a front-runner for the Dems, but now this too? [From Politico.com] The Democrats may be heading for a fine mess. Because of party reforms in the past and a close race for delegates this year, a nightmare scenario is building for the Democratic National Convention in August: It is easy to imagine that Barack Obama

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the rest of March, the supers might be ready to jump on the bandwagon en masse, and effectively anoint Obama the winner, if Hillary doesn't really impress in her March 4 "firewall" states, Texas and Ohio. Keep in mind that "superdelegates" are party big-shots, elders and officeholders; they are loyal to the Democratic Party above any specific candidate or cause. As such, they will do what it takes to avoid the spectacle of a protracted, summer-long nomination battle that would give the Republicans many

to decide who gets the nomination and not delegates legally bound by the votes of a primary or caucus (aka “pledged delegates”). And what will be the result if this happens? Well, from Roger Simon’s excellent article yesterday on the subject “Dems head for messy nomination process“: “It is easy to imagine that Barack Obama could get to Denver with more pledged delegates than Hillary Clinton, but that she could get the nomination based on the votes of the superdelegates.

On the Republican side, it looks like the race is now McCain’s to lose, despite Huckabee surging after his Super Tuesday wins. On the Democratic side, there is an increasing likelihood that the race will come down to a nasty floor fight at the Democratic convention, especially if Clinton goes through with her plan to try and seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The candidates had previously agreed to ban delegates from those states because their legislatures moved their

Why Things Could Get Very Interesting In August...

Honestly . . . why would we want to elect a party into the White House that has created for itself, a nomination process that can explode on themselves? In a Politico.com article, it explains that the Democrats avoided "winner take all" primaries to be fair to underdogs. But then, they created the "pledged Super Delegate" to protect the very front runner from the dark horse the primary is supposed to promote.

dollars per delegate spent by Mitt Romney, at that pace in order to go over the top he would spend 1.33 Billion dollars. -MSNBC delegate projections showed Obama nearly winning the delegate haul last night. Lets get into the article of the day: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8353.html Now lets get into the first time voters,causus goers. They would actually like to believe their vote counts. Noble goal. If you stood in line for an hour in bad weather to attend a causus after a long day of work, or stood in line at a polling place