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To: seanmerc
If Morris ever develops a brain he would be dangerous. The Obama supporters are groupies. They don't even know they have a congressman.

Morris just wants to see the clintons hurt, so he is saying things he knows are not true.

Hillary Clinton got Bill to fire Morris. He has been trying to get even ever since he left. What he posts as analysis is based on hurting Hilary. It has nothing to do with solid analysis.

The Democratic primary election is pretty much in a tie. And Morris knows that Hillary has a lot of so called "uncommitted" special delegates in her hip pocket. Morris is trying to frighten them into deserting Hillary.

It will not likely work. What I think will happen is George Soros will try to buy enough specical delegates to get Obama the nomination. Hillary does not have the money to compete.

But some of those "for Sale" delegates will actually be Hillary Delegates who are very likley to go public with Obama's attempt to buy them. There would be just one way for a delegate to prove that Obama had not bought his vote, and that would be to cast his ballot for Hillary.

This thing is a long way from over. There are 1054 Delegates yet to be selected. Obama needs 689 of them to win the nomination on the first ballot. Obama must win 70 percent of the remaining delegates. He has been winning just under 60 percent. Over all he has won about 52 percent.

There is only one way to win it before the convention and that is to get more special delegates to publicly commit. They are not committing although I would bet a number are for sale.

Selling delegate votes goes way back. In 1960 Abe Lincoln called in the press to hear his orders to his staff. When the press assembled, Abe told his staff to Not buy delegate votes in his name. The press was impressed and wrote glowing stories about Honest Abe.

When the press left his staff asked how Abe could expect them to get him the nomination if they could not buy any delegate votes. Abe told his staff, "I did not tell you not to buy delegate votes. I told you not to do it in my name."

So the Lincoln staff bought enough votes to get Abe the 1960 Republican nomination and Abe became known in the press as Honest Abe.

3 posted on 02/21/2008 9:28:13 AM PST by Common Tator
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To: Common Tator
The Obama supporters are groupies. They don't even know they have a congressman.

Very true. In my college classes, I'll ask students questions about a variety of things. Few of them know anything about the Constitution. Most of them can't name a single Supreme Court Justice, either senator, their representative, or any of the state congressmen. Here in Texas, though, most of them think the Governor's first name is "Thatdamned" and his last name is "RickPerry."

5 posted on 02/21/2008 9:41:32 AM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: Common Tator

Seems to me the joker in the deck is Silky Pony. Whoever he throws his delegates to will probably get a majority on the first ballot.


7 posted on 02/21/2008 9:57:52 AM PST by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
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To: Common Tator

“In 1960 Abe Lincoln”

Was there a second Lincoln presidency that I did not hear about?


9 posted on 02/21/2008 10:03:17 AM PST by shaft29
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