Posted on 04/03/2008 6:45:07 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
BURBANK, Calif. — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is unlikely to catch rival Barack Obama in pledged delegates, hinted on Thursday that she hoped to persuade a few to back her instead of him.
“There is no such thing as a pledged delegate,” Clinton said at a news conference in California, where she has been fundraising.
Both Clinton and Obama planned to address the state convention of the North Dakota Democratic Party Friday, where delegates to this summer’s national convention will be allocated. Obama crushed Clinton in the state’s Feb. 5 presidential caucuses, 61-36 percent.
The former first lady said she was traveling to North Dakota to thank her supporters and delegates — and wooing Obama supporters was fair game.
Pledged delegates are “misnomer. The whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Senator McCain,” Clinton said. “And I think that process goes all the way to the convention.”
While the DNC has no rules requiring pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses to vote for the candidate, the people who serve as pledged delegates are selected by the campaigns who won them and loyalty is a key qualification.
Obama currently leads in the delegate count, 1,634-1,500, according to The Associated Press. Because of the way Democrats apportion delegates, Clinton is not projected to catch Obama even if she has a strong showing in the remaining 10 contests.
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Lie, steal and cheat! Denver will be fun.
I guess that means that all of HER "pledged delegats" are free to vote for Obama.
If she steals some of Obama’s delegates, it will be one of the lesser stealing offences she was involved in.
She is correct.
In the Democratic primary process, there is no such thing as a pledged delegate.
The rules do not require the delegates to vote for any particular candidate, even on the first ballot.
So ANY delegate can vote for anybody they want. It is their right.
However, the CANDIDATES have the right to replace any delegate they have won. So practically speaking, you wouldn’t expect many delegates to switch. They are hand-chosen by the candidates based on their loyalty, and if they show any signs of wavering, they can be replaced by the candidate.
Will make the hanging chads election of 2000 pale in comparison.
Only it will be Democrats against Democrats. No Republicans to blame for disenfranchising voters.
Never mind — they’ll figure out a way to blame Republicans.
delegate count, 1,634-1,500, according to The Associated Press
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Clinton is within 125 delegates of Obama, they argue Clinton’s chances are small, they leave out that Obama’s chances aren’t much better than Clintons.
If florida votes are counted, those numbers are wrong.
hillary: 1605
obama: 1704
Now the spread is only about a hundred votes. I predict she will cut that spread in half after PA voters have their say.
It’s going to be a very very interesting election.
The Democrat delegates are all for sale. It’s just a question of which candidate can offer the best price for the most delegates. I expect the Clintons have more expertise at this game.
We're talking Democrats here. If they decide to sell out to the other side, they would never let the candidate who chose them know, before it's too late for them to do anything about it.
Loyalty in a Democrat?
That's not likely.
If Michigan votes are counted, it gets even closer, even if all "uncommitted" delegates are assigned to Obama. I love it. Too bad we have such a lousy candidate for the GOP nominee.
All your delagates are belong to us.
There is something interesting about this that is being missed in the news. Only about 20% of the Dim delegates are superdelegates (~800 of 4000), but the regular delegates are apportioned by the vote percentage. This means that the regular delegates are guaranteed to be relatively close in any actual race. The superdelegates (party big-wigs), by definition, are not apportioned. They can go all or none for either candidates. Thus, the party insiders have total control over the winner of any serious race.
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NEVER FORGET
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All during the Vietnam War Hanoi Radio lying told the world that there wasn’t a single one of its Communist North Vietnamese Army Soldiers fighting inside a then Free South Vietnam.
Back in the United States then college student HILLARY RODHAM was repeating whatever Hanoi Radio was lyingly telling the world about the Vietnam War.
So was then Cambridge Student WILLIAM CLINTON while organzing his own London, England Anti-U.S. Demonstrations funded with Communist Soviet Union backing.
Problem for them all was that Communist North Vietnamese Army Soldiers really were fighting inside a then Free South Vietnam. Hell bent on killing Freedom there.
See 5th Photo down that I personally took of 2 Communist North Vietnamese Army Soldiers we 1st CAV SkyTroopers captured during the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War in November 1965.
Deep inside a then Free South Vietnam:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
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Lying is as Lying does, perhaps?
Then and now, as in HILLARY RODHAM’s recent “Coming under Sniper fire in Bosnia” lie?
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NEVER FORGET
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wow- is THIS getting good.....
So why do they even bother letting the public vote if delegates can do anything they want?
Flipping delegates is like flipping land to Hillary.
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