"I don"t assert that there is anything evil or ugly about trying to convince the world that your nomination is inevitable. It is the natural thing to do, to try to be seen as the prohibitive favorite. But it has come back to bite Clinton in the ass." **********************************I hear this idiotic claim time and time again. You know, the theory that Hillary expected to be coronated and that her nomination was inevitable...blah, blah, blah. Yet, for the life of me, no one has ever shown anything she said or did that would indicate the truth of this. She has been campaigning hard from the very beginning- taking absolutely nothing for granted. It amazes me that we seem to have millions of psychologists and mind-readers in this country who believe they can look into someone's psyche and determine what they think. It is just more ignorance....coming from people who are apparently not equipped enough to think otherwise.

"No democrat is going to win Ohio, Texas or Florida." **************************

Ohio has a very good chance of going Blue this election.

thegreatgiginthesky Said:
"How can he loose Super Tuesday when he has more delegates and won more states, most importantly states in the south?" ****************Beside the fact that every source has Clinton ahead in the delegate count except the source HuffPo decides to use....your post should read..."...LEAST importantly states in the south?"

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Here Come the Brownshirts, Again
Does the Republican Party Have Aces Up Its Sleeves (for the 2008 elections)?
In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with another stint as Secretary of War. Norman "Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran" Podhoretz will be Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John "Nuke them" Shalikashvili as his deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister of Interior in charge of Halliburton's detention centers into which will be herded all critics of war and the police state. Billy kristol will be chief White House spokesliar.

The whole gang will be back--Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmster, Feith, Libby, Bolton. America will have a second chance to bomb the world into submission.

With the majority of voters sick of war, sick of lies, sick of fraud from the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, and sick of stagnant and falling incomes, McCain is poised to capture 20 per cent of the vote--the Christian Zionists, the rapture evangelicals, and the diehard macho flag-waving thugs who believe America is done for unless "Islamofacists" are exterminated.

They can steal the election with the Diebold electronic voting machines and proprietary software that no one is allowed to check. There are now enough elections on record with significant divergences between exit polls and vote tallies that a stolen election can be explained away. The Democrats have been house trained to acquiesce to stolen elections. The voters, whose votes are stolen, dismiss the evidence as "conspiracy theories."

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CNN is reporting that Clinton is ahead by 94 delegates but the Obama Post willnever report this. That would be positive news for the Clintons. You guys and MSNBC are the same biased scum bags.

Going into Super Tuesday Obama had a lead of 15 delegates 63(O) and 48(HC) now he only has a lead of 2 that means he lost super Tuesday.

Looks like its going to come down to the wire between these two. Either of them would make a good leader. Together they could be unstoppable in the General election.

I think that the media has done a lot to encourage the Obama surge. MS-NBC in particular does not want Clinton to get the nomination. (Keep in mind big businesses own the networks)

But ask yourself why Republicans have not laid a hand on Obama. They seem much more nervous about running against Clinton and are constantly beating on her. Republicans seem to think Obama will be easier to beat. I'm afraid they are right.

You can call me an idealist if you want but I just can't picture any way McCain can win the Oval Office.America is fed up with with these war mongers and just because McCain was a POW doesn't make him a military expert.To suggest we will stay in Iraq a hundred years means he hasn't a clue as to how this war will be paid for.As far as manpower goes we could only sustain a viable fighting force by re-instituting the draft.Starting a war with false intel and criminally defending the premise of why we invaded a sovereign nation is common knowledge and Americans let the Republicans know how they felt last election.Republicans stayed on the same track,following this President into untold debt and ruining our economy,all the while,even now,telling us how strong the economy is.If this were your families checkbook would you make such rediculous statements?Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton have more to offer this nation than any nincompoop Republican.Who is the Republican party foisting on their constituents to vote for and why?The who is people that are expendable,the why,they all followed this warmonger for eight years while they joined him in ripping off the American public and they have no viable candidate to address any of the charges leveled at them and they all know it's a losing proposition.John McCain was a war hero and he should be commended for his service to our country,but to think he can carry on the same policies that Bush instituted the last eight years is folly and reprehensible and most Americans know this.

I will go for Hillary over Obama ...

What are you people smoking.

The Super Delegates were never intended to influence an election, but rather to safeguard against another fiasco election of McGovern, the process is now having unintended consequences. Rather than a safeguard, it is now influencing elections, for instance, Hillary Clinton is running around saying that she"s in the delegate lead based merely on the fact that she has more super delegates, this my friends is Hillary pimping the system.

Let me throw in a hypothetical here, say a candidate locks up all the Super delegates prior to the election and headlines flash all across the nation that Candidate XX is half way to winning the nomination, what then, who would venture to run against Candidate XX.

This is turning out to be a case of unintended consequences, the Super Delegate instead of being a safeguard to the nomination, have become the nomination.

I'm still going to vote for Hillary!

RERUN THE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA PRIMARIES

The most democratic (Democratic?) way to resolve the Michigan/Florida divide is to rerun both primaries, perhaps on the same day as the Puerto Rico contest (June 7, I think).

The DNC should pay for half of the cost for running the primaries and the other half should be paid for however primaries are normally funded. In this way, a potentially party-dividing resolution at the Convention would be avoided in a manner that is equally fair and unfair to the candidates but wholly fair to the Democratic primary voters of that state. The so-called "super" delegates from Michigan and Florida should be forced to vote however the voters of the state vote. If it is a "winner-take-all" state, then the super delegates should vote however the majority in the state vote. If delegates are proportionately apportioned, then the super delegates should vote however the voters from the district from which they come vote.

Admittedly this resolution means a very different primary than it would have meant when the states original primaries occurred, as, among other things, there would only be 2 candidates on the ballot. However having another primary would be democratic and would also give the states what they were seeking by moving the election in contravention to DNC rules, in that each state's primary would be of major importance to determining who the candidate is. At the same time, having another primary would put to bed a division that could literally jeopardize the outcome of the national election in November, as the delegates from those states would not be the subject of a bitter tug-of-war that could anger significant proportions of the campaign workers from those states necessary to get out the vote (who is exactly who state delegates to the Convention are).

Rerun the primaries in Michigan and Florida.

Tuesday was a PROFOUND victory for Obama. Perceptions matter, and Obama won the expectations race. This is self evident as the Clintonians concede the lead to Obama and declare him the "establishment" candidate.

Obama and Clinton split the delegates right down the middle.

The front runner title is a hazard, it must be defended, and Clinton did not manage it. She trailed Obama by a tenth of a percent.

The Clintonian narrative of inevitability is utterly shattered. It was a double edged sword and has come back to wound Clinton, perhaps fatally.

Meanwhile, Obama was able to deliver on his narrative of momentum, hugely so. And consider his fundraising numbers for this year. There is no way anybody can rationally claim that Obama does not have the advantage at this time, and that Clinton looks to be going down to defeat.

I don"t assert that there is anything evil or ugly about trying to convince the world that your nomination is inevitable. It is the natural thing to do, to try to be seen as the prohibitive favorite. But it has come back to bite Clinton in the ass.

And no, the purpose of this post is not to "bring people together" it is to argue that Obama is now the front runner, and that he is the victor of Tuesday"s contests.

After this election is over, the DNC must change the rules. There should be no super delegate assigned until after the process. The super delegates are influencing the election, which is not what the party intended when it created the super delegates. Hillary Clinton had well over 200 super delegates even before Obama decided to run, she captured the votes many or all the black delegates and won't give them back.

Again there should be no know count of super delegates before the convention.