The netroots need to activate! The Washington Post had an explosive story this Sunday morning. I kind of just stumbled onto it. Some might not look at it as all that big of a deal but I submit to this community that this is a huge deal! The political pundits in D.C. almost unamiously conclude that if Senator Obama has a significant pledged delegate lead and continues to lead in the popular vote that the nomination will be his.
Now comes word from the Washington Post that this theory is all wrong. Here is the headline that Mark Halperin over at his page at time.com takes from the WP article
Super Battle
Clinton’s March 4 wins persuade many superdelegates to remain uncommitted until after the primaries."There’s a sense that this is going to Denver not resolved."
A surprising number of those uncommitted supers quoted take Clinton campaign side on how they should decide — best president or strongest general candidate, rather than elected delegate leader.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Let's take a look at this particularly aggregious quote:
But Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury said that if there is no clear leader, he is prepared to exercise his judgment. "If the pledged-delegate total is within 100 votes or whatever, I don't think there's a great deal of significance in that," said Bradbury, who also represents other secretaries of state as a superdelegate.
He added: "I just believe that the determining factor for superdelegates shouldn't be, 'Well, 49 percent voted for Hillary and 51 percent voted for Obama, and that decides it for us.' Sorry, but that's not how it works."
Sorry that's not how it works? This is an aggregious statement. Aggregious. The democratic party has been screaming about enfrachisment of voters and reflecting the will of the voters for years. In fact, many of us were outraged when the supreme court overturned the people's votes in 2000. Now, we have the Oregon Secretary of State saying that the will of the people doesn't matter!
The netroots and the liberal activitists of this party need to unite and inform people such as Bill Bradbury that they will face serious primary challenges if they overturn the will of the people. The superdelegates need to know that they are looking at a repeat of Chicago 1968 if they continue with these outrageous games.
Now, many of you will tell me not to worry and will accuse me of being a fanatical supporter of Senator Obama; however, I implore you to look at the facts. To understand that Senator Clinton and former President Clinton will be in the backrooms making sweetheart deals with the likes of Bill Bradbury. We need to make an effort to stop this now.
There are a couple things I can suggest to stop this:
- Letter writing campaigns to newspapers around the country decrying this.
- Extensive lobbying of the superdelegates to try to convince them that it is not in their best interest to throw this nomination to the loser of the popular vote.
- Down the road, massive street protests in Denver.
This is very grave. Senator Clinton is about to steal the nomination in the same technically legal way that Governor Bush stole the prresidency in 2000. Her endorsements of Mccain this past week prove that in the end she is little different from a republican. I do not accept that I am be overly panicky. Again, Senator Clinton has proven that she will stop at nothing to win.
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