My Michigan and Florida worry

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 10:36 AM PST

2008/03/07 · 10:36

This whole Michigan and Florida thing has worried me from the very start last summer. Those of us who can allow reason to influence our view of this situation know that you can't simply abandon 44 electoral votes in the fall election by refusing to seat delegations from these two states. But you also can't allow such blatant, self-interested rule-breaking to stand unpunished. Most importantly, you can't allow such dubious results of uncontested elections to count for anything of such importance.

There are many ways this situation can be "resolved". Some are better than others. But I see a really bad scenario, the worst case in my opinion, coming down the pipe, and it scares me more than all of Hillary's party-killing attacks combined.

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How should the Michigan and Florida dilemma be resolved?

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How should the Michigan and Florida dilemma be resolved?

Seat the January delegates as they are.

3 votes

Seat the January delegates and give Obama all uncommitted delegates from Michigan.

6 votes

Do not seat any delegates from Michigan or Florida.

17 votes

New primaries in both Michigan and Florida.

14 votes

Caucus in Michigan, caucus in Florida for revotes.

13 votes

Caucus in Michigan, primary in Florida.

9 votes

Caucus in Michigan, let Florida's January vote stand.

5 votes

THUNDERDOME!!!

6 votes

SUSA analysis: Obama less "danger" to lose General Election

punkdavid

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 4:09 PM PST

2008/03/06 · 16:09

This is my own little number crunching exercise based on the SUSA numbers released today released today, and based on Bowers's further breakdown into "solid", "lean", and "tossup" states. A slightly different look at quantifying the "odds" of Clinton and Obama in a general election against John McCain.

punkdavid

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Friday February 29, 2008 · 9:38 AM PST

2008/02/29 · 09:38

There has been a lot of nonsense around the internet, and the mainstream media unfortunately, in the past few weeks about the status of John McCain's citizenship as a "Natural Born" citizen under Article II of the Constitution.

Being a lawyer, and being that I just love doing legal research, and being that my bosses are out of the office today and not looking over my shoulder, I decided to see what I could find.

Hopefully this will shut up the idiots.

punkdavid

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Friday February 22, 2008 · 12:57 PM PST

2008/02/22 · 12:57

It’s become pretty clear around teh interwebz that with the strange methodology of delegate assignment in the Texas Democratic Primary/Caucuses, even if Hillary has a moderate win in the popular vote that Obama could very well walk away with the majority of pledged delegates.

THIS IS NOT ENOUGH.

punkdavid

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 8:51 AM PST

2008/02/20 · 08:51

It's a sad fucking state of affairs when The Rude Pundit thinks that Democratic partisans are acting like barbarians. This is a man who regularly illustrates his political points with similes and metaphors to anal sex, gimp masks, and barbed phalli. He uses the word "motherfucker" so much that Dr. Dre and Snoop tell him to "chill".

But apparently the vitriol between the Clinton and Obama supporters on the web has become just too much for his delicate sensibilities to handle.

punkdavid

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 9:57 AM PST

2008/02/18 · 09:57

I'd like to go on the record to say that, personally, I don't give a rat's furry ass about the "will of the people". I think that it's wise for a political party to set up its nominating rules in order to best reflect the will of the people, but I also recognize that in a complex, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, federal republic such as ours, sometimes that is not 100% possible.

What I care about is playing FAIR, and abiding by the rules.

punkdavid

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 10:32 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 10:32

I want to ask everyone here a serious question.

For everyone who is saying, "If your candidate wins the nomination, I will not support him/her," why is that?

punkdavid

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 12:23 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 12:23

Ahh, the death knell of DailyKos is being rung from within and without. There is no civility to be found in the former land of the righteous. This beacon of reason and thoughtfulness now descended into madness, vitriol, and cannibalism. We are proving them all right. Democrats are divided, and we cannot agree on anything, and we will fall apart and accomplish nothing if elected because all we are is a bunch of immature partisans (even within our own ranks) tearing each other down over the most petty and small of differences in policy and motivation while using the most unseemly and profane language in doing so.

To this, I say "HORSESHIT!"

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