Wednesday, March 05, 2008

They want to do what?

This seems like a ridiculous concept until I realize that they are serious:
Officials in Michigan and Florida are showing renewed interest in holding repeat presidential nominating contests so that their votes will count in the epic Democratic campaign.

The Michigan governor, along with top officials in Hillary Clinton's campaign and Florida's state party chair, are now saying they would consider holding a sort of do-over contest by June. That's a change from their previous insistence that the primaries their states held in January should determine how their delegates are allocated.

Clinton won both contests, but the results were meaningless because the elections violated national party rules.
So.....because they violated established rules, the Democratic Party is now going to allow them to do it all over again so their delegates count? What's worse is the fact that the farther you get into the story, the more ridiculous it sounds as they take about do-over alternatives to "traditional" primaries.

As an outsider looking into their process, I see it this way; Florida and Michigan made their beds, and now they need to lie in them. If the DNC does not want to look like a fly-by-night operation that's in the back pocket of the Clinton Campaign, they need to stick to their original guns....

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1 Comments:

Blogger S. Oakley said...

True...and you have a good point. But to the average Michigan or Florida citizen, who probably wasn't even paying attention during the fight by the respective governors to move those states' primaries up...all they know is their votes don't count.

That's not going to sit very well. Period.

Basically, the Democrat party is damned if they do, damned if they don't.

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