Florida And Michigan (Redux) [View All]

[DemocratSinceBirth]

If at the end of the primary season Obama and Hillary are (essentially) tied in delegates Florida and Michigan should hold new primaries, not caucuses, with the popular vote loser in those two states promising to endorse the winner...

Anything else will fracture the party...Obama and Hillary have a lot of passionate supporters... If they feel they were jobbed, some won't vote, some won't contribute, some won't work hard for the party, and yes, some will become a suicide voter and vote Republican or third party out of spite...

This is what happened in 1980 after the acrimonious campaign between Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter in 1976 even though Jimmy Carter had a clear and convinicing delegate lead before the Convention...John Anderson got seven percent of the vote, mostly from disaffected Democrats, and made Reagan's win look much larger than it was...

Exit polls showed that about seventy percent of Democrats supported both of them...That seems good on the surface but that still leaves a lot of unhappy Democrats if their candidate doesn't get the nomination...