The flaw in this is if she loses the primary vote by a large margin. The RATs will have to jettison all their push for popular vote over electoral college in order to annoint Toonette. Once again, we’ll have the coattails of death.
The final two sentences of Poe’s article says it all.
I am still very worried; the attack ads on Obama and Edwards start the day after tomorrow.
The flaw in this is if she loses the primary vote by a large margin. The RATs will have to jettison all their push for popular vote over electoral college in order to annoint Toonette. Once again, we’ll have the coattails of death.
This, to me, once again highlights the genius of our founding fathers. They understood these kinds of voting dynamics better than anyone in the modern day. The electoral college was a counterweight, but NOT TOO MUCH of a counterweight to the popular vote. How did they get this SO RIGHT?!?!?! If the BREADTH of Hillary’s support, geographically, was stronger, she would have a shot at being carried by the superdelegates. If she can’t even win the popular vote in the primaries in enough states, then she certainly can’t count on the superdelegates.
If everything was on the up and up, the superdelegates would be a reflection of national support. But since they most likely will not be, if Obama gains more momentum, that will show she does not have the “coat-tails” for anything. This is just so cool (on paper!).