It ain't over till it's over . . .
. . . and it's still not over, media and Obama efforts to coronate him notwithstanding.
She won the popular vote by every measure, including giving him all the uncommitted delegates in Michigan, he won the pledged delegate race. Superdelegate votes don't count until the convention, as they can change their mind until then.
While I still think the existence of superdelegates is an anti-democratic abomination, for probably the only time in history, they serve a useful purpose. (keep in mind I also think caucuses are an anti-democratic abomination, and they will never serve a useful purpose, and without those Obama would have been out of this long ago)
One candidate won the popular vote, one won the delegate count. That will probably never happen again. So the superD's get to be tie breakers.
For those talking about party unity and coming together in November, best not hold your breath; no matter what happens I see a huge chunk of the party taking a permanent or at least 4 year walk, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in either case, given what the party has become.
The number of people giving up just because the media tells them to and Obama declares himself the nominee is amazing. Still worse the number of people who think Hillary would be the vastly better candidate but who seem to not to have learned from 2000 what can happen when someone cares more about being perceived as a good sport than fighting to the last breath when they are clearly the vastly superior candidate. (for newer people wishing to know why I think there is such a gap in the candidates, please see http://mojave-wolf.livejournal.com/2008/03/06/ and http://mojave-wolf.livejournal.com/2008/05/07/ ) The people who were furious yesterday and now totally willing to forgive & validate the Obama/DNC primary tactics, can be downright depressing.
Worst of all? The people who don't care that she won the popular vote, and think because the fix is in from the DNC, and the media and Obama say he is the nominee even though "the rules" they were trumpeting for months to discount Florida and Michigan say he isn't, therefore we and she would somehow be doing the country a favor by marching behind the Obama-bus in Republican-like lockstep. If we're lucky, maybe we can even march next to those Obama Youth Brigade types who showed up at Clinton rallies for the express purpose of booing and chanting Obama and heckling Chelsea. (well, okay, I might march in lockstep for a block or so for the chance to put a couple of the OYB in the hospital, but I think they'd kick me out of the parade after that)
It's like all those "get on the bus now or get left behind" things that started showing up all over the blogosphere a week or two ago. Screw that. Let me near the friggin bus and I'll flatten the tires and break out a couple of windows.
She won the popular vote by every measure, including giving him all the uncommitted delegates in Michigan, he won the pledged delegate race. Superdelegate votes don't count until the convention, as they can change their mind until then.
While I still think the existence of superdelegates is an anti-democratic abomination, for probably the only time in history, they serve a useful purpose. (keep in mind I also think caucuses are an anti-democratic abomination, and they will never serve a useful purpose, and without those Obama would have been out of this long ago)
One candidate won the popular vote, one won the delegate count. That will probably never happen again. So the superD's get to be tie breakers.
For those talking about party unity and coming together in November, best not hold your breath; no matter what happens I see a huge chunk of the party taking a permanent or at least 4 year walk, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in either case, given what the party has become.
The number of people giving up just because the media tells them to and Obama declares himself the nominee is amazing. Still worse the number of people who think Hillary would be the vastly better candidate but who seem to not to have learned from 2000 what can happen when someone cares more about being perceived as a good sport than fighting to the last breath when they are clearly the vastly superior candidate. (for newer people wishing to know why I think there is such a gap in the candidates, please see http://mojave-wolf.livejournal.com/2008/03/06/ and http://mojave-wolf.livejournal.com/2008/05/07/ ) The people who were furious yesterday and now totally willing to forgive & validate the Obama/DNC primary tactics, can be downright depressing.
Worst of all? The people who don't care that she won the popular vote, and think because the fix is in from the DNC, and the media and Obama say he is the nominee even though "the rules" they were trumpeting for months to discount Florida and Michigan say he isn't, therefore we and she would somehow be doing the country a favor by marching behind the Obama-bus in Republican-like lockstep. If we're lucky, maybe we can even march next to those Obama Youth Brigade types who showed up at Clinton rallies for the express purpose of booing and chanting Obama and heckling Chelsea. (well, okay, I might march in lockstep for a block or so for the chance to put a couple of the OYB in the hospital, but I think they'd kick me out of the parade after that)
It's like all those "get on the bus now or get left behind" things that started showing up all over the blogosphere a week or two ago. Screw that. Let me near the friggin bus and I'll flatten the tires and break out a couple of windows.