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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:46 PM Original message |
Who says more plegded delegates automatically = nomination? |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. If Barack comes in with the most delegates and is not the nominee, there will be an R for Pres |
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InAbLuEsTaTe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Count me among those millions. Hillary has lost me FOREVER! |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. Amen that |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-06-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
31. Agree 100% |
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loveangelc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. I just dont see supers overturning pledged delegates just because Hillary can say she won big states |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. they wouldn't be "overturning" anything |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Uh, if the SDs reverse the delegate count, they've overturned it. |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-06-08 01:17 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. But no one has WON with the delegate count |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-06-08 11:21 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. You're spinning in circles |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. self delete ... dup |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. Apparently voters "ain't shit". It's all for those delegates - MSM & Obama keep |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Obama has more votes and will have more votes at the convention. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. I forget - how did Adlai Stevenson do in the General Election? |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 08:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Is your assertion that Kefauver would have done better? How did FDR do? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. But FDR started with the most delegates - not exactly comparing apples |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Maybe Kefauver was just a little ahead of his time: |
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TheDoorbellRang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. The article contradicts its own premise |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. If the Supers value the unity of the party |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. good point. but is there any precedent for that happening? |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. There is none |
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9119495 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. Clinton and the myth of the supers saving the day for her |
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msallied (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. There are no hard and fast Constitutional "rules" for Primaries |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. The Constitution is not the governing document for the Dem selection process. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. My thoughts are that we are not living in 1912, 1932, or 1952 |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. If there is no "deal" between the candidates, the SDs will unavoidably |
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Zachstar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
16. If the supers overturn a pledged delegate lead for whatever reason. |
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tgnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Why would that be the natural result? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. If the supers give the person with the least amount of votes the nomination... |
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lmbradford (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. OH I don't know.... |
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adoraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. all it will take is probably a 20-30 delegate advantage |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-05-08 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
24. the myth will about whatever happened to that Democratic Party?.....this keeps up. |
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