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"I'm voting for John Edwards, and you can't stop me!"
by Newzie on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 10:21:51 AM PDT
by BBelle on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 10:26:27 AM PDT
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by proudprogressiveCA on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 10:49:18 AM PDT
please, please!
paj1
by paj1 on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:20:19 AM PDT
I am voting for John Edwards in the New Mexico Democratic primary, PROVIDED he promises to get a crew cut before entering the White House. I have had it with hair. :) JIM sfe
by mrmyster on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:23:17 AM PDT
;~)
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by LaEscapee on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:43:03 AM PDT
crew-cut on Not but a crew cut could be cool.
oceanview
by oceanview on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:49:21 AM PDT
and damn proud of it. The only candidate who has even bothered to do some homework on what is wrong with our country and how to fix it.
by stratocasterman on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:49:53 AM PDT
And so on, and so on!!
GO JOHNNY GO!!!
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by Blue Waters Run Deep on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 01:39:45 PM PDT
issue to him a la ego.
I have heard that he has a lot of cowlicks on his head.
My daughter has that problem and it is a problem. If she doesn't get her hair cut by someone really skilled, she goes around looking unkempt.
So, a crew cut won't do it. The only way to deal with the problem is a really good haircut or to shave it all off.
YOu know, the man isn't to blame for his looks or his hair.
Edwards Democrat My moniker is in honor of three generations of women whose soul's were seared in the cauldron of Hell's Kitchen, NYC
by hells kitchen on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 12:00:27 PM PDT
very funny.
by paj1 on Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 04:05:53 PM PDT
Just for you to know how you have inspired me every time I saw one of your posts. Thanks to Redjet too.
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by pioneer111 on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 10:33:19 AM PDT
I've stolen this. With credit given of course.
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by TexDem on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:09:24 AM PDT
the DNC won't let me.
I'm a Floridian, so my vote in the Democratic Primary isn't going to count.
Doesn't stop me from doing all I can to support Edwards.
**Yes, I know many here wish to not blame the DNC for the Florida and Michigan fiascos, but the upshot is that our votes will not count.
I am an Edwards Democrat.
by ThirstyGator on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:33:27 AM PDT
"It's a race to decide who the British goverment will follow blindly for the next 4 years" Kennedy/Kerry '08
by Salo on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:49:41 AM PDT
The truth is an offense but it isn't a sin.
by FormerRep on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 01:07:44 PM PDT
NOT responsible for your vote not counting.
Your Democratic State Party is.
That sucks, I know, but such is life.
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by rick on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 01:29:33 PM PDT
state Congress, both House and Senate, who passed a law signed by the Republican governor who then foreclosed discussion of moving the date back once the national parties had taken their positions. Yes, there were some Democrats in those bodies who supported the move, but they were not in a position to drive this issue themselves.
"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government....President Bush has repeatedly violated the law for six years." Al Gore
by psnyder on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 02:39:11 PM PDT
that they chose not to do.
by rick on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 02:53:04 PM PDT
The state party can indeed send its full complement of delegates to the national convention, and they will all be counted, but only if neither they nor their votes are determined in any way by the results of the early primary. Setting up a second, later primary or devising some other method of choosing those delegates not based on election (i.e., undemocratically) appear to be the only alternatives, and they both have glaring problems.
by psnyder on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 04:49:37 PM PDT
contests.
by rick on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 05:12:54 PM PDT
You're back where we started. First you blamed the state Democratic Party for the problem created by a solidly Republican-majority House and Senate and a Republican governor. Yes, there was some Democratic Party support for the rescheduling, but let's not ignore the actual composition of the bodies that made the change. Then you claimed that the Democratic Party can still do something to fix the situation. I asked you what, and you didn't answer.
Believe me, as a Florida resident I would love to get the situation resolved, but as the new date is now enshrined in law, and Crist has said he would veto any attempt to move the date back into DNC/RNC acceptable territory, and as the Republican legislature has no incentive to do anything to help Democrats (Republicans are only losing half their delegates), I don't know what the state Democratic Party can now do. If you know something I don't about this, please, do tell.
Or did I misunderstand you? Were you suggesting that the national party, not the state party, can fix the problem? If you're suggesting that, you're right, but I don't see it happening. They landed with both feet on Michigan after Florida had thumbed it's nose at them, and they've shown no inclination to back down.
by psnyder on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 06:06:06 PM PDT
I thought I read somewhere that they could turn the early primary into a non-binding caucus or something, and not actually delegate any votes until later.
by rick on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 06:18:05 PM PDT
Broward Democratic Party, with whom I spoke at an executive committee meeting about this, the key point is that in order to satisfy the DNC the delegate selection can have absolutely no linkage to the early primary, making that primary a completely empty exercise. They can call it a "non-binding caucus" or "early primary" or whatever they want, but they can't use its results or reference it in any way to select delegates that the DNC would recognize. The state party is then faced with contriving practical alternative means of delegate selection that are democratic, not an easy matter; they haven't come up with anything yet. Our best hope is that the DNC would relent and, like the RNC, let at least half the delegates be seated, but I don't think that's going to happen. Even if it did, it's getting late in the game, and candidates have given little attention or time to us. I think Florida is toast as far as this primary season is concerned.
The situation for us is really hosed. The party is also worried that the emptiness of the presidential primary will drive down turnout and therefore "no" votes on a terrible proposal for changing property taxes here. Hey, it's Florida: same as it ever was.
by psnyder on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 07:14:24 PM PDT
are counting their votes. Yes, they're taking a 50% hit, but their votes will not be entirely pointless, as mine will be. They'll be campaigning on that come the general.
And yes, the down-ballot items, including local elections and the property tax issue, will take drastic hits.
by ThirstyGator on Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 06:21:26 AM PDT
The DNC has the final word, and the DNC says my vote doesn't count. The RNC has taken notice, by the way.
by ThirstyGator on Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 06:18:30 AM PDT
I hope JRE wins in IA and in at least 2 others of the first States, but you know what, the first State "decision making" is fairly recent history and is psychological warfare. If WE want JRE, WE are the deciders. WE of ALL of the States.
Let´s remember Molly and ALL vote for whom we choose. I will NOT presume to ay who Molly would want but I DO think she would be FOR us making up our own minds, one person and one State at a time.
by lpeacock on Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:36:28 AM PDT
wide narrow
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