Round Two!

[seanorange]

In order to bolster her flagging campaign, Hillary Clinton is now pushing to have the Michigan and Florida delegates reinstated. The states had been stripped of their delegates by the DNC as punishment for pushing up their primaries. (The RNC did something similar, but only took half of its delegates away from Florida, rather than all of them

Comments

[aremisasling]

I agree, if those delegates are to be counted, they need a legit primary. This kind of 'anything to win' machine politics is one of the most dramatic why I didn't vote for her. I justified my decision before on a hunch, but more and more it seems to be backed by concrete evidence

[seanorange]

I figure that part of the reconciliation to save their marriage went something like, "Bill, I'm going to run for President, and you will do anything and everything to support me." But that makes it sound like a (political )suicide pact. Maybe it is.

~Sean

[aremisasling]

Another thing. If she done the same as the rest of the field I'd back her decision to seat their delegates in a heartbeat. I'm sure Michigan would gladly send a delegation that would decide on a candidate at the convention instead of being tied to the only candidate on the ballot. Florida seems like an easier case to make. There was a vote and all the candidates had a fair shake at it. It does disadvantage both Edwards and Obama who both were able to boost their numbers in states where they could get face-to-face, but at least everyone is on the same playing field.

That brings up an interesting point. If candidate A becomes more popular by speaking to the public and candidate B becomes less popular, what does that say about A and B? People say Obama's not as good in a debate, but I don't recall him ever losing any serious points after a debate. Clinton knows it too, which is why she's not making his resistance to a debate a key platform for her run. It's not the achilles heel the pundits make it out to be.

Meep

[seanorange]

It would be interesting if they could send unpledged delegates to the convention... hmmm...

They should have done what the RNC did and just reduced the number of delegates. I think any "punishment" is unwarranted and unnecessary, but then I'm an indecisive independent bandwagon-hopper who doesn't have the stones to back someone from the get-go who may eventually fail...

~Sean