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An Opinion from Robert Creamer
by Karen Hatter | May 21, 2008 at 12:44 pm | 450 views | 3 comments
As the Primary That Wouldn't End continues, with each of the remaining candidates chugging along, like the Little Engine That Could, with both chanting, 'I think I can! I think I can!', political analysts and just about everyone wade in nightly with their view on what each new set of numbers from the primaries mean and what each candidate should be doing or should not do.
Click here for yet another opinion from Robert Creamer, a political organizer and strategist, who explains why he feels, unlike many pundits of late, that the 'down to the wire' primary race will help the Obama campaign.
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May 21, 2008 at 12:44 pm by Karen Hatter, 450 views, 3 comments
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at 14:44 on May 21st, 2008
...and it's fueled by TV pundits tasked with 24/7 coverage: sometimes, for a few hours, there's actually nothing to say!
at 00:38 on May 22nd, 2008
Obama has had good speeches and good prospects- does not mean he is qualified for the job. But one can never entirely know. He may just be able to beat the odds.
at 07:10 on May 22nd, 2008
The time for debating credentials has long since become a moot point. Senator Obama, according to his Party's rules, having received the majority apportionment of the pledged delegates, garnering the majority support of Super delegates, according to his Party's rules, should be named the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
The remaining delegate count in Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, even if Senator Clinton were to receive all of the remaining pledged delegate votes, would still not provide enough pledged delegates to declare her a valid front runner.
The mathematics being used to justify Senator Clinton's logic seeks to incorporate winning numbers for her from two primaries that she, Senator Obama and Senator Edwards agreed to bypass due to the Democratic Party's decision when Michigan and Florida ignored the Democratic Party's instructions. The penalties were known to all before the actions were taken.
The reality is that no Democratic candidate was to campaign in either of those states nor were the delegates to be seated. At the time, Senators Edwards, Clinton and Obama all agreed to abide by the Party rules. At some point, Senator Clinton changed her mind and decided to ignore the Party's instructions as did the states of Michigan and Florida.
In an effort to devise some means of including the voters of Florida and Michigan and in an effort to avoid penalizing Senator Obama, who abided by the Party rules, the Democratic National Committee will meet to work out a compromise. Any compromise that may come out of the Democratic National Committee meeting on May 31, concerning the Florida and Michigan delegates, must result in some form of splitting of the delegates between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. Again, she will not have the numbers to support her nomination.
At stake is the reality that abiding by his Party's rules, Senator Obama has won the majority of pledged delegates through apportionment and gained the support of a majority of the Super delegates.
Will the Democratic Party disregard the will of the people, whose votes were acquired through the process put in place by the Democratic Party, dismissing the votes of the majority that voted for Senator Obama?
The rules currently do not support a 'do over' because some would rather have another choice for nominee.