The road to the White House leads through?
Chris Bowers, an Obama supporter, understands that The Math is not the only asphalt which paves said road:
While I understand the Obama campaign's suspicions surrounding a Clinton-funded revote in Michigan, I still place more of the blame for this mess at their feet. They seem perfectly content to allow this to head to a credentials fight and a floor fight, probably because they know they would win such fights. Also, while the Clinton campaign has presented a detailed proposal for how they think Michigan should be seated via a re-vote, I have not seen any coherent proposal on how to seat the Michigan delegation from the Obama campaign. Further, this would not even be a problem if Obama had not removed his name from the Michigan ballot. Had Obama stayed on the Michigan ballot, he would be ahead by about 70 delegates even with Michigan included, and need less than 50% of the remaining delegates in order to reach 2,208.The Obama campaign apparently considers a Michigan re-vote somehow more damaging to their chances to win the presidency than a credentials fight and a floor fight over the Michigan delegations. That is their calculation to make, but I completely disagree. If John McCain ends up as the next President of the United States, his road to victory will have been significantly paved by the inability of the Clinton campaign, Obama campaign, and Michigan Democratic Party to agree on how to seat the Michigan delegation before the end of June.
How many Michigan voters, along with those dissed in Florida, do Democrats lose along the way? How many others, like me, do the Dems lose along the way? (Albeit, like me, many herald from unimportant states.)
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From Climate Code Read:
How do you manage in such a way as not to de-motivate people? And one of the single most de-motivating actions you can take is to hold out false hopes, soon to be swept away by events....
One must consider whether or not the intent of the bipartisan elite is to disenfranchise voters - esp those voters who have even half a clue. The caucuses here in Maine were driven by phone banks and turned out a bumper crop of uninformed voters - for Hillary they were singing about how she was going to deliver single payer health care, for Obama about how he'd bring us home from Iraq immediately.
I went to see the lunacy and to poke it with sharp sticks, but it looked to me like virtually everyone else who knew better stayed away. Disenfranchised.
Posted by: chris miller | March 22, 2008 11:47 AM