| | Hillary The ThiefOnce again we see Hillary Clinton flipping on an issue, this time on whether or not certain primary votes in Michigan and Flordia should count in the Democratic Party's nomination of a general candidate for the Presidency.
Briefly, here's what has happened. The party decided to allow some early primaries. That got out of hand when everyone wanted their primary to be early leaving no time to campaign anywhere, so the party tried to rein in some of the states. The parties in Michigan and Flordia refused to back off, so the national party decided to punish them by eliminating their delegates from the national convention. All the major Democratic candidates pledged not to campaign there before their primaries, and all but Clinton pulled their names from the Ballot. The effect is that 350 delegates that these states control cannot be seated in the general convention, and their votes cannot count toward the majority a candidate would need to win the party's national nomination.
Everyone was cool with that in the beginning when they all thought that Clinton was a sure thing. Now along comes Hillary Clinton who suddenly finds herself in a fight with Obama and is realizing that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to so casually cast aside those 350 delegates. Now she wants them back, four days before the Flordia primary, because she feels that she will take all of those votes at the national convertion, since everyone else withdrew their names.
If she gets her way on this, she will, in effect, steal 350 delegates, because the voters in those states never had an opportunity to vote for anyone else.
If she doesn't get her way on this, she can make political hay out of the idea that she, and she alone, is standing there defending the rights of the poor voters of these oppressed states.
Naturally, the other candidates are crying foul, as any of us would, because it seems that once again the Billary Machine will say or do anything to win an election.
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| | Posted 1/28/2008 3:23 AM - 8 comments
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