Posted on 05/07/2008 10:49:34 AM PDT by kingattax
Uncommitted Democratic superdelegates in Congress overwhelmingly say they won’t necessarily back the presidential candidate who wins the most primary delegates. Instead, electability will be very important in their decision.
Of 42 lawmakers interviewed by The Hill, only four said they regarded the primary vote as decisive.
The congressional superdelegates’ independence is precisely what Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) is banking on as she trails by about 130 pledged delegates behind rival Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
It also means the Democratic Caucus is unswayed by its leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who has warned that the party will suffer if superdelegates overturn the will of primary voters. Pelosi has said superdelegates should take into account whatever is important but not give the nomination to the candidate who lags in delegates.
But Pelosi’s troops on Capitol Hill say they are more concerned about electability, plus each candidate’s momentum heading toward the convention, and how their own constituents voted.
Clinton is given little chance of catching Obama’s delegate count in the last few primaries. But her campaign has gained momentum in recent weeks as Obama has been on the defensive over his former pastor and charges of elitism.
Only 10 percent of lawmakers interviewed by The Hill said the delegate count on June 4, the day after the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota, will determine whom they decide to support. There are 70 neutral superdelegates in the House and 22 in the Senate.
“What will be decisive will be two factors: who would make the best president and who has the best chance of winning,” said Rep. Howard Berman (D), an uncommitted lawmaker from Los Angeles.
Neutral Democrats representing districts across the country voiced the same sentiment.
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Read “The Fix is in for Hillary”
Looks like the Supers have gotten their manila envelopes from unknown sources outlining their misdeeds, criminal and ethical violations, and a promise that these envelopes will never find their way to the press if they vote for Hillary.
My Prediction: The rats live and die by polls. The delegates will swing to the side that has better poll numbers the day of the convention.
The Superdelegates only have the ability to sway the vote in the rare cases where a primary is this close, and even then they are pretty evenly split as well.
The assertion that the Superdelegates control the nomination and that the primaries have no effect isn't really valid.
They can change the course of close race, but the nomination can be won, and usually is won, without the Superdelegates.
You have to understand the mindset of the left.
They have the worldview that people are perfectable (Obama said something about perfecting this nation), and it follows that some are already more perfect than others. These more perfect people have the right and obligation to make decisions for others, because they know better than others.
This is why the superdelegates exist.
WE WILL DECIDE!
with apologies to Gloria Gaynor
First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you’re back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you’d be back to bother me
Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
‘cause you’re not welcome anymore
weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I’d crumble
you think I’d lay down and die
Oh no, not I
WE WILL DECIDE!
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I’ve got all my life to live
I’ve got all my love to give
and I’ll survive
WE WILL DECIDE!
It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high
and you see me
somebody new
I’m not that chained up little person
still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I’m saving all my loving
for someone who’s loving me
Clinton is more electable. I hate to say this but McCain can beat Obama but Billary will clean his clock.
Question: does the Republican Party have super delegates?
They’re blowing smoke. They would never take the nomination from Obama. There would be a blood-bath on the Convention Floor.
I appreciate your FWIW. It seems to me Hillary would have to promise immediate troop withdrawals to have any hope of keeping Obama's youth contingent from sitting the election out. As to the Black voters, without Obama, neither Hillary or certainly not McCain will benefit. In fact, I could see some violence if the nomination is "stolen".
She paid them off.
Is that Ron Reagan?
Well, she gave him his orders
at Monroe, Virginia,
Sayin’, “Bill, you’re a-way behind time.
This is not Huma, but it’s old Bill Clinton
You must put her into Spencer on time.”
Well, she turned around and she said
to her tired, sleezy husband
“Shovel on a little more coal,
And when we cross that White Oak Mountain
You can watch Old Hillary roll.”
It’s a mighty rough road
from Lynchburg to Danville
A line on a three-mile grade
It was on that grade
that she lost her average
You can see what a jump she made
She was goin’ down the grade
making 90 miles an hour
Her whistle broke into a cackle
They found her in the wreck
with her hand on the throttle
She was scalded to death by Osama-Obama
Now ladies, you must all take a warning
From this time now and learn
Never speak false words to your true lovin’ voters
They may leave you and never return.
Riots in Denver.
sure looks like junior doesn’t it ? lol
I like to watch CNN in the morning to get a good laugh, but that was their spin this morning.
And these are the same people who say that Operation Chaos is making a mockery of their primary system!
They should just change their name to the Hypocrisy Party and be done with it.
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