Obama's Super Delegates & Money Machine

Politically Drunk On Politics ^ | 05/22/2008 | J Brown

[Jabrown]

...Just the floppers above represent a net of 20 Supers for Clinton OR a 40 delegate swing. Furthermore, have Supers become so beholden to the DNC that they no longer remember that their loyalty is to their constituent first; or is it just about money. If I were on the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee I would start dumping huge amounts of money into the districts above and start running the commercials...

[tx_eggman]

This nominating process should be a wake up call to Democrats to urge their party leaders to change their primary system; a system designed to allow the party, not the voters to determine the nomination. Beyond the 3 million voters that have been disenfranchised in Florida & Michigan, demand change in states such as Texas where 1/3 of the delegates were awarded in a caucus system in which only 42,000 people participated. The result was that Obama received more delegates from Texas than Clinton, essentially disenfranchising the 2.9 Million voters who cast ballots in the primary.

Noob .. does it make you happy or sad to see the dims slice each other up like this?

The nature of your stay here at Freerepublic depends on your answer.

[dirtboy]

Noob .. does it make you happy or sad to see the dims slice each other up like this?

Easy, big fella - if you read other articles in his blog, they have plenty of criticism of Obama.