as reported earlier, by Karl, Republicans create their own.
Well played, fellows.
Ted Olson at WSJ on the prospects for a lawyered convention:
What splendid theater the Democratic Party presidential nominating process is shaping up to be. And they are just getting started. The real fun would be a convention deadlock denouement a few months from now, the prospect of which is already quickening the pulses of scores of Democratic lawyers who have been waiting more than seven years for an encore of their 2000 presidential-election performances.
Press reports following super-duper Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses gave Sen. Clinton a narrow popular vote lead over Barack Obama. At the same time, Sen. Obama’s supporters were claiming a narrow lead among pledged delegates. The delegate count keeps changing, of course, and Sen. Clinton’s team is also claiming a delegate lead, based in part on a larger share so far of what are known in Democratic Party circles as superdelegates: 796 slots (20% of the total) set aside for members of Congress and a menagerie of assorted elected officials and party Pooh-Bahs.
These superdelegates, Byzantine hyper-egalitarian Democratic Party delegate selection formulas, and the fact that many delegates are selected at conventions or by caucuses rather than primaries, combine to offer the distinct possibility that by convention time the candidate leading in the popular vote in the primaries will be trailing in the delegate count.
How ironic. For over seven years the Democratic Party has fulminated against the Electoral College system that gave George W. Bush the presidency over popular-vote winner Al Gore in 2000. But they have designed a Rube Goldberg nominating process that could easily produce a result much like the Electoral College result in 2000: a winner of the delegate count, and thus the nominee, over the candidate favored by a majority of the party’s primary voters.
Comment by Carin on 2/11 @ 6:36 am #
Will Huck never go away? This election cycle is a nightmare.
Comment by B Moe on 2/11 @ 6:42 am #
Breaking News: Prominent Republican leaders have announced they question the appropriateness of the the Elephant as a party symbol.
“It is really fat and cumbersome, as I and many Republicans may have used to be, but no longer are.” said former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
“I don’t like it’s reputed long memory so much,” grumbled Arizona Senator John McCain, ” we need something more modern, something racing to the future!”
“Like a horse!”, exclaimed Huckabee, “Only with big ears, to better listen to the people!”
“I love it!”, shouted McCain, “One of those little horsie things with the big ears! What are those things called?”
Comment by Carin on 2/11 @ 7:25 am #
HA!
Comment by Timstigator on 2/11 @ 8:41 am #
Any under-handed, covert, immoral, unethical, illegal subterfuge needed to break the Obama/Hillary deadlock will go automatically to Her Thighness.
Comment by geoffb on 2/11 @ 9:15 am #
“Any under-handed, covert, immoral, unethical, illegal subterfuge needed to break the Obama/Hillary deadlock will go automatically to Her Thighness.”
She does after all have more years of following Alinsky than Obama. Also her years of White House experience in FBI file gathering should come in handy about now. Shall we call it the Livingstone assisted Presidency?.
Comment by Merovign on 2/11 @ 1:39 pm #
Oh, come on Dan, the Dems don’t care about the Electoral Collage unless it chooses a Republican. It was never about the system… they sings its praises when they’re the beneficiaries.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/11 @ 1:49 pm #
You know, I like that better than Electoral College, Merovign. I’m stealing it.
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