cloudythescribbler
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Sun Feb-10-08 12:31 PM
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7. Several points -- many Obama supporters have advocated a REAL vote in MI and FL, & the "rules" ... |
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do not prohibit the superdelegates (who are unbound) from rallying behind any candidate who establishes clear dominance, even if less than the required majority, in the primary campaign.
Otherwise, you have the paradox that without the superdelegates, candidate X WOULD have the required majority, while WITH the superdelegates swelling the total, a majority (now more difficult) is not achieved. The SDs are there clearly to resolve an issue of the primary campaign not generating a clear winner, and to AVOID a brokered convention.
I think some people here are being 'more royalist than the king' vis-a-vis Howard Dean on these issues
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