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Fox: Half of MI and FL delegates will be seated
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Posted on 05/31/2008 4:17:09 PM PDT by Jean S

Wusses.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; dnc; fl2008; hillary; mi2008; obama; onemanhalfvote
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To: ClearCase_guy
...I think it will be all downhill for him after that. Then the riots begin.

If there are riots it will set race relations back even further than they are now.

81 posted on 05/31/2008 7:07:24 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Red_Devil 232

"We're ready to provide strong leadership to, er, run the country. We think."

82 posted on 05/31/2008 7:15:59 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Repeal 16-17
 

83 posted on 05/31/2008 7:21:46 PM PDT by littlehouse36 (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable - JFK)
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To: SandRat
What happened to every vote counting???

Dem superdelegates can trump all the dem voters in over 30 states.

A month ago they were talking about putting Al Gore in if the problems with Hillary and Obama hurt chances of winning in the fall. That would mean NO voters would count. Just the "supers" doing their thing...

85 posted on 05/31/2008 7:40:17 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Jean S
I'm a newbie to this political thing, but I will say that the democrats are eating each other up and that Wexler guy was a bag of wind.

Wish that we could find another Ronald Reagan.

86 posted on 05/31/2008 7:44:26 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: Sacajaweau

If the delegates “committed” to Obama don’t come through there will be mayhem on the convention floor and they can kiss 2008, and probably 2012, goodbye.

Of course I sincerely believe their party’s leaders and candidates have strayed so far from what they claim to believe, and their special interest groups have such different agendas, that the Democrats are in serious trouble in the long run.

I think those that think the Republicans are in trouble are missing which party REALLY has problems that are likely impossible to overcome.


87 posted on 05/31/2008 7:45:29 PM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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To: JustDoItAlways

And how many of those 60% that voted for Hillary only did so because either a) they didn’t understand what “uncommitted” meant or b) recognized that an “uncommitted” vote was no vote at all, since the person you elected to represent you could turn around and vote for the one candidate you were expressly rejecting?


88 posted on 05/31/2008 7:51:02 PM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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To: FreeReign; gridlock

Except to make that argument she has to avoid mentioning that Obama couldn’t get votes in Michigan, and he likely would have a popular vote lead if the caucus states had regular primaries rather than the abomination that is a caucus.

Even the typical Democratic Superdelegate isn’t that dumb. Especially those who held out this long to see what they could get for their vote and/or waited to see which side would win so they could join the winning team.


89 posted on 05/31/2008 7:55:47 PM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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To: Prole

Ha!!! I remember that!! Kyle Farnsworth is a legitimate “likes to fight guy”


90 posted on 05/31/2008 7:59:23 PM PDT by ehit88 (I'm(not anymore)shoveling snow while a Cubs game is on?????(my Alan Keyes t-shirts are on order))
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To: Ingtar
Even more fun: they gave Obama almost as many delegates as Clinton won in Michigan where he was not on the ballot.

That's what really set Ickes off with him saying that Hillary reserved the right to challenge the Michigan decision with the credential's committee in Denver. But the vote wasn't even close; 19-7 to seat the delegation giving each 1/2 vote and the 44% uncommitted to Obama.

91 posted on 05/31/2008 8:05:20 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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To: SandRat

Apparently some votes count more than others with the DimocRats.


92 posted on 05/31/2008 8:12:25 PM PDT by red state girl (never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never)
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To: txrangerette; RoseofTexas
One of these days some people who have been asleep might wake up and find out how very, very Left Obama is, then, there goes out the window all that rot about “bringing the nation together”...

Hopefully, but they'll have to be told on a GOP or GWB bashing thread, because they never come to the "liberals stink" ones.
 

93 posted on 05/31/2008 8:26:10 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Jean S
The RATs don't change. Their predecessors had a similar clause like that in the original Constitution concerning the allocation of representatives.
94 posted on 05/31/2008 8:28:13 PM PDT by fella (Is he or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
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To: SlapHappyPappy
The Popular Vote argument is only going to work as cover for any delegate who decides to vote against Obama because he is suddenly radioactive, for some reason yet to be determined (or revealed). As that delegate stabs Obama in the back, he can intone seriously that he is “honoring the will of the people”.
95 posted on 05/31/2008 8:28:25 PM PDT by gridlock (Now that Polar Bears are protected under ESA, where do I go to apply for a permit to breathe?)
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To: ladyjane

Denver, Denver, Denver!


96 posted on 05/31/2008 8:29:15 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: gridlock
Since MI and FL are going to be counted, at this point Hillary can claim to have won the popular vote.

Only of those states that voted. There were many caucus states - most of which Obama won - and they don't have vote counts to put into the 'popular vote' total.

97 posted on 05/31/2008 8:34:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: JustDoItAlways

The crazy thing is Obama was not on the Michigan ballot and will get more delegates than the percentage that voted uncommitted, and Clinton will get 4 less than represent the actual votes she received.

So they stole 8 delegate votes. (Though each only counts half.)

I can understand penalizing Michigan and even compromising party rules. I can even understand giving some delegate representation to Obama who was not on the ballot.

But I cannot understand taking some from Clinton and giving them to Obama. That’s a penalty for one candidate rather than the state that broke the rules.

As far as I an see, they did what Democrats do best: decide based on emotion and a distorted sense of right and wrong, rather than logic and morality.

These are the same ones who make the rules we must follow, but they cannot even stick to their own.


98 posted on 05/31/2008 8:39:56 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Democrat rules”. Talk about your oxymoron!


99 posted on 05/31/2008 8:40:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: BenLurkin

“Democrat rules”. Talk about your oxymoron!


100 posted on 05/31/2008 8:40:31 PM PDT by fhayek
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