Reply #44: Bullsh*t! It's Hillary's delegate count she's worried about, not our votes! [View All]

[flpoljunkie]

And, yes, the Clintons have done nothing but try to stoke the anger of the "low information" voters for quite some time now. They should be ashamed, but, of course, they seem not to be capable of it.

Moreover, will half the Republicans voters in Florida stay home because only half their delegates were stripped? And what about those who did not vote because people like Hillary said their votes wouldn't count.

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=zydzt

NHPR's Laura Knoy: "So, if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan? Why not just say, Hey Michigan, I'm off the ballot?"

Hillary Clinton: "Well, you know, It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything."

How much higher? Some 1.75 million Democratic voters cast ballots in Florida and 600,000 voted in Michigan, even though the national party had already stripped the two states of their convention delegates for voting out of turn. Based on record Democratic turnout in other states, the report says, Florida would have been expected to turn out an additional 1.15 (million) voters and Michigan would have turned out another 715,000 voters.

Those voters “did not participate in their primaries but likely would have had they expected their vote to count,” the study concluded.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/19/disenfranchising-non-voters-in-florida-and-michigan/