OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers (an Obama backer) argues that — after all of the intraparty sound and fury of the past few months — the Michigan delegation will be seated at the convention with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 73 and Obama 55, while Florida will be seated with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 105, Obama 67, and Edwards 13. ÂÂ
After many of his readers’ heads exploded, Bowers posted a follow-up, noting that the Obama campaign has not offered an alternative delegate slate in either state, and is working Michigan’s congressional district conventions today to collect the uncommitted delegates. That allocation would narrow the gap between Obama and Clinton to 73 delegates, but Clinton would remain a longshot to overtake Obama by the end of the primary season.ÂÂ
Nevertheless, savor the possibility of the Silky Pony as kingmaker.
Comment by serr8d on 4/19 @ 7:57 am #
Just another wacky turn in the Democratic primary. Obama gets the shaft (since he didn’t campaign much in Florida or Michigan, and most MI and FL Dems probably didn’t care, realizing the results wouldn’t matter…and, at that stage, Obama hadn’t yet assumed messiahship).
But, Democrats deserve every wacky bit of this.
Comment by Pablo on 4/19 @ 8:09 am #
So, Obama is going to have delegates assigned to him from a state where no one (save for possibly write ins) voted for him. I love watching the Democrat party in action.
Prediction: by this time next year, Howard Dean will have exited the political stage once and for all. There will be bootprints on his ass.
Comment by badanov on 4/19 @ 8:38 am #
Pretty nice series of posts on the Great Unwinding of the Left.
Very well, done.
Thank you, sir!!
Comment by Enoch_Root - twp on 4/19 @ 9:05 am #
EVERY VOTE MUST COUNT! Teh DISENFRANCHISEMENT and all!
Comment by Enoch_Root - twp on 4/19 @ 9:11 am #
maybe they’ll get Dick Quest to figure it out.
http://tinyurl.com/5qsfsq
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 4/19 @ 9:15 am #
- In my world, all of this clown car Dem primary quagmire stuff is potential proof that God is, after all, a Conservative. *smirkle-
Comment by Enoch_Root - twp on 4/19 @ 9:18 am #
I think the judiciary will be called in to GIVE the nomination to one of them. EVRY VOT MST CUNT
Comment by Donald on 4/19 @ 9:31 am #
Why can’t the police figure out why Mr. Quest had a rope around his neck and genitals?
Comment by Pablo on 4/19 @ 10:01 am #
Meanwhile, the political landscape that the Dems will face when their bloodletting is finished is shaping up quite nicely. Iraq, their signature issue, is making fools of them. Al Qadea in Iraq is in it’s last throes (yes, I said last throes), the Iraqi army is proving its mettle having taken the Mahdi Army’s stronghold in Basra, and real political progress is taking place.
I can’t wait for the debates to begin and their insitence that all of these things could never happen to begin haunting them. If “McCain wants 100 years of war!” is the best they’ve got, it’s going to be a long, long fall for the Donks.
Comment by Donald on 4/19 @ 10:11 am #
Yeah Pablo, but what about the rope around the neck and genitals. Geez people…comedy gold! Get all PW…for me, ignorant inbred redneck.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 4/19 @ 10:22 am #
- Donald, Unfortunately such riveting inquiries as genitalia rope-a-dope and such, is presently over shadowed by the distraction of the Donkey primary circus.
- Sort of a case of Dem-a-dope trumps rope-a-dope.
- “If “McCain wants 100 years of war!†is the best they’ve got….”
- Feeble mis-characterizations is what they’re down too already. If Dean has his way, and the super delegates are forced by the party bosses to make an arbitrary decision, thereby completely voiding the entire Dem primary process, the blood bath that follows may leave them as just a nasty rumor all the way through the election cycle. McCain can just mail in his inauguration.
Comment by Donald on 4/19 @ 10:29 am #
Thing about it Bang. Are the two issues really so different?
Comment by Donald on 4/19 @ 10:30 am #
That would be think of course.
Comment by Pablo on 4/19 @ 10:50 am #
Donald, I wouldn’t touch that with Michael Hutchence’s dick, if you get my drift.
Comment by guinsPen on 4/19 @ 11:16 am #
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 4/19 @ 11:17 am #
You know with the focus the Clintons have on Florida I wonder just what kind of Democratic Party political machine is in place there. Janet Reno’s work as attorney general, from Florida, Vice President Al Gore’s attempt to steal the election, using Florida, Senator Clinton’s violation of the DNC’s policy in Florida and attempts to seat delegates from there…
Comment by MayBee on 4/19 @ 11:35 am #
But, Democrats deserve every wacky bit of this.
Amen. Their solution makes absolutely no sense and has nothing to do with democracy, but I’m sure they’ve somehow convinced themselves it is fair. Like Obama’s tax policy is going to be.
Comment by maggie katzen on 4/19 @ 11:40 am #
I’m going to savor that one for a looooong time. and I’d love to see him square that with poor backwards hicks that don’t vote for their economic interests.