Hillary on Top Now Wants a Redo
Hillary has won Texas and Ohio and it has gone straight to her head. Already hinting at a combined ticket with Barack Obama, she seems to want to be on the top. Hillary’s newfound arrogance could possibly anger voters but relieve the super confused super delegates.
I have predicted a Hillary/Obama ticket from the very beginning of the democratic race. Everybody, including myself and Hillary, thought Barack would be the vice president candidate. Then something went terribly wrong for Hillary. Barack Obama all of a sudden commanded the lead, beating Hillary in key states and even surpassing her National polling average.
So after gracefully winning Ohio, and not so gracefully Texas, Hillary is in the lead in the race to secure the Democratic Nomination. At least this is what the Hillary campaign’s newfound confidence suggests.
Michigan and Florida, who lost their rights to delegates for holding their primaries early, now want to re-hold their primaries in order to let the people’s votes count. Initially, they moved up their primaries in order to protest the Democratic National Committee for not being fair in which states they let hold primaries before a certain date. Michigan and Florida both thought that their supporter’s votes would count more if they did not really count. The Hillary Campaign supports this 100% mainly because Hillary won both of these, normally; delegate rich states the first go around.
Florida is asking for the Democratic National Committee to pay for the cost of setting up another election. How does this make sense when they broke the rules the first time? Michigan is trying to cut costs by cutting down the number of voting areas and the hours the voting areas operate.
Comment by ls on 6 March 2008:
She’s being ridiculous. Even if she was still a viable candidate, Obama has said that he is certainly not running for VP. And he’s well aware that the major base of his support would never vote for HRC and would feel ultimately betrayed if she was on his ticket. It’s all talk, nothing more. “Dream ticket” my eye.
Comment by Zm on 7 March 2008:
Clinton didn’t win Texas. This has to be the most prematurely-reported error in the past few days by the media.
When the Texas caucus is done reporting, all figures show that Obama will likely have won more Texas delegates, in total (+3 to 7 or so).
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/topstories/stories/030708dnpolconventions.de9cc4.html
Comment by FL_Voter on 9 March 2008:
Michigan’s election was irrelevant because Obama wasn’t even on the ballot. If Florida and Michigan have another election, the results might not help Hillary as much as we expect it to. Obama might actually do better this time around.
Quote from: http://www.rpof.org/article.php?id=304
> Kirk Wagar, Obama’s Florida finance chairman, said a do-over would likely accomplish nothing. Though Clinton won 50 percent of the Jan. 29 vote — beating Obama by 17 percentage points — Wagar said a second contest would likely be tighter. The result could be the candidates dividing the state’s delegates almost equally — effectively doing nothing to decide the nomination contest.
Florida wanted to affect the outcome by holding their primary before Super Tuesday. This was approved by the state party and an almost unanimous decision in the legistlature (passed 151-1). The DNC decided to prohibit the candidates from campaigning in Florida, but allowed fundraisers. Now Florida wants their delegates to be counted. They’re trying to have it BOTH WAYS, which is just not fair. The taxpayers should not have to pay for the State Legislature’s decision, one that the Florida Democratic Party allowed, and neither should the DNC which made the rule which the FDP agreed to.
Quotes from: http://www.rpof.org/article.php?id=296
> “If our choice is to be relevant and have no delegates or be irrelevant and have delegates, I’d rather be relevant…” (State Senator Jeremy Ring, The Palm Beach Post, 05/22/07)
> “It’s clear the Legislature wants to move the date up, the Florida Democratic Party would have no objection to that,” said Mark Bubriski, a spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party. (The Miami Herald, 03/21/07)
Comment by N.William on 9 March 2008:
Gender problems once again, heaven forbid that Hillary should have the audacity to want to win. Isn’t that what this election is all about? Are McCain or O’Bama ridiculous because they want to win? Whoops, I guess some voters and reporters temporarily forgot. Women can be ambitious and, it’s okay.