kentuck
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Wed Oct-15-03 11:02 AM
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Gene Lyon's latest comment on candidates if primaries were tomorrow |
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<snip> If the primaries took place simultaneously tomorrow, in short, the likelihood of any candidate securing a majority of the 4318 delegate votes needed to secure the presidential nomination would be small. (Of the total, 798 are "super delegates" appointed by party elders; giving Bill Clinton, interestingly, a bigger role than the average ex-president.) Fixated upon their ritualized starring roles in New Hampshire and Iowa, Washington media savants haven't grasped how rule changes may have changed the game. But come the July convention, the nation could be in for one hell of a TV show.
(rec'd in email from latest Gene Lyon's article)
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Wed Oct-15-03 11:31 AM
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1. Thank God. Clinton might be able to keep the Democratic party from |
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walking off the cliff into the abyss.
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Wed Oct-15-03 11:37 AM
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Clinton and Gore, the only one with any common sense.
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Wed Oct-15-03 11:41 AM
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3. More from the article... |
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<snip> Maybe it's a good thing a lot more people watched the Yankees-Red Sox melodrama on TV last week than the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN. Thanks to the miracle of videotape, I managed to see both. Staged in Arizona, the latest production of "Nine Candidates in Search of an Audience" showcased less the candidates' merits than their party's traditional inability to discipline itself even with the most crucial presidential election in a generation approaching.
Then over the weekend, I heard a Republican savant on the radio vending the preposterous theory that Wesley Clark had entered the race as a "stalking horse" for Hillary Clinton. Invoking the Hillary Monster has become the GOP's surest means of extracting cash from Moron-Americans who haven't already flung it away on RV excursions to Branson, Missouri or yielded to the pleas of faith-healing televangelists. The Democrat party, the fellow claimed, is being run entirely by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
If so, here's my advice to Chappaqua, N.Y.'s fun couple: ditch four or five of these jokers at once. Nine candidates isn't a political contest, it's a litter. With all nine standing behind podiums in a semi-circle, the CNN exercise resembled less a debate than a game show, with emcee Judy Woodruff preening, posing, interrupting, scolding, and generally acting as if she--as the representative of Washington's celebrity press corps--were the star, and the candidates hapless contestants to be discarded in favor of next week's nobodies. On one or two occasions, Woodruff actually turned her back and walked away from a candidate giving an answer that evidently displeased her. ...more
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