How Is This Good For The Democratic Party?
As predicted, Clinton is breaking her oath to the DNC and beginning to push harder to have Florida and Michigan counted. From Newsweek:
NEWSWEEK: You ‘ ve been advocating seating delegations from Michigan and Florida. But Senator Obama wasn ‘ t even on the ballot in Michigan. Does making this argument risk alienating voters who think you ‘ re breaking the rules or changing the rules?
THE HILDABEAST: I don’t think so. I mean, he had a choice to be on the ballot. He chose not to be. I chose to stay on the ballot. So that was a choice he made. His campaign then ran a very vigorous effort to try to defeat me with uncommitted delegates, and he lost. So it wasn’t as though there wasn’t a contest. There was a contest. And I won. And I won resoundingly in Florida… I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
The real shame would be if we deny the people in Florida and Michigan a chance to help elect the nominee. There is nothing democratic about telling people their votes don’t get to count. The DNC created this mess and needs to fix it soon.
This just proves that in America ”democracy” is more about finding loop holes and exploiting them, than it is about the will of the people. The US can’t criticize other countries for having unfair elections, when her system is hampered with controversy year after year.
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Hate to break to to you, but Florida and Michigan created the mess. It’s a shame that those STATES acted in a manner that nullifies the actions of their voters.
The state parties have no one to blame but themselves. Too bad. Follow the rules.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/roland.martin/