Re: The 2008 Presidential Elections - Chapter 2
What's mildly interesting about this is that it's indicative of a scenario likely to play out amongst the various superdelegates from now and on into the convention. If HRC continues on to win Pennsylvania by a wide margin as expected, she will have effectively won all the big states that a candidate needs to take it all in November. So it is not inconceivable that HRC wins the popular vote and BHO is most assuredly going to have more delegates. Inouye, ever the pragmatist, views his vote as being just as much about supporting someone he is loyal to and he may well consider more likely to contend in November as it is about making the people of Hawaii happy. Frankly, the main reason BHO won here by such a large margin was the fact that we view him as a "local" boy. I don't have a problem with our superdelegates splitting their votes.
And just to get the week started, an excerpt from The New Republic's analysis of the HRC/BHO contest Slouching Toward Denver, The Democratic Death March:
Originally posted by Menehune Man
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And just to get the week started, an excerpt from The New Republic's analysis of the HRC/BHO contest Slouching Toward Denver, The Democratic Death March:
If McCain winds up facing Obama, he'll enjoy yet another advantage: a nominee weakened by attacks from a fellow Democrat. "Clinton hit a raw nerve several weeks ago when she said she had thirty-something years of experience, McCain had twenty- to thirty-something years, and Barack Obama had a speech," says Representative Artur Davis, an Obama supporter. The suggestion that Obama isn't ready to be commander-in-chief is "unusually corrosive," Davis complains. Indeed, when I asked various Republican and neutral Democratic operatives to name the most damaging twist in the primaries, most cited this same critique. "It's very good messaging--that he's not fit to be commander-in-chief," crowed one Republican strategist. "When you get the Democrats saying it, that's kind of the nuke in the whole thing." One of his Democratic counterparts was even more blunt: "It's one thing for John McCain to say [Obama's] not as muscular. It's another thing to have a girl saying it. It has some influence on swing voters."
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