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Tue Mar-04-08 08:34 AM
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I wonder if we could persuade John Edwards to "unsuspend" his campaign |
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and get back in the race. After the job the Clinton and Obama campaigns have done tearing each other apart---if there's going to be a brokered convention (and, it looks more and more like it each day) John might as well offer himself as a darkhorse candidate. He might just win the damned thing.
IMO, he did have the best message and the best stand on the issues of the final three.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:36 AM
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1. He's already brokering...for a job for himself. |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:37 AM
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2. Doesn't mean he can't change his mind. nt |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:38 AM
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There won't be a brokered convention, and JE dropped out. I will not vote for someone installed by insiders. Not Gore and not JE. It's the only scenario in which I won't vote.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:40 AM
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5. If Hillary stays in this race up to the convention it will be brokered... |
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or, at least, up to the superdelegates, and that will tick off a lot of Democrats who will stay away from the polls in November.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:52 AM
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11. Howard Dean and Bill Richardson sent strong signals |
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this week that there will not be a brokered convention. SDs will get behind Obama if Hillary doesn't make a very strong showing today.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:54 AM
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12. What are they gonna do? Kick her out of the race? |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:59 AM
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14. No. They can and will start publically calling for her to step down |
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and the SDs can and will endorse Obama. They all know that a long acrimonious fight resulting in a brokered convention will leave us with an irreparably damaged candidate who can't win in November.
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Tue Mar-04-08 09:02 AM
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15. And, what makes you think that Clinton would rather |
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have Obama than McCain as the next president? I'm not sure she would.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:39 AM
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4. God, I wish. These two have been a nightmare. nt |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:40 AM
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:44 AM
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9. I'm getting to the point that I don't give a damn which one wins |
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and if either of them win in November. Just more of the same old shit.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:40 AM
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This primary is too long and too expensive. What do we get? NaDa a change.
I wish Edwards had tried to win. My money was lost.
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:41 AM
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8. I think he may very well have been close in the delegate count. |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:45 AM
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10. He definitely left too soon... |
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Tue Mar-04-08 08:57 AM
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13. And maybe he could get Kucinich to come back |
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and then they'd win every primary and free cheese will fall from the sky and ...
GET OVER IT! Edwards didn't do squat. He's over.
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Tue Mar-04-08 09:11 AM
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16. John Edwards couldn't get votes in exchange for drugs in a crack house |
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At some point, a candidate has to prove that he or she can, you know, win an election.
I voted for Edwards in 2004, but in two campaigns, he has now won exactly won state - the state in which he was born. Jerry Brown is more of a viable national candidate.
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Tue Mar-04-08 09:12 AM
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17. Why would we want to try? |
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Edited on Tue Mar-04-08 09:12 AM by Vash the Stampede
The guy hasn't won an election since 1998, and that was his only win.
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