That kid superdelegate pledges for Obama!

[blitzen]

He's been on the tube a lot lately, always scrupulously neutral. Now he has come out for Obama!


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/21/superdelegate-schmoozed-by-chelsea-backs-obama/

A few weeks ago, 21-year-old Wisconsin superdelegate Jason Rae was taken out to breakfast by Chelsea Clinton in the runup to that state’s Democratic primary.

Two days after the vote, the college junior – who will be the youngest superdelegate at this year’s Democratic National Convention — is undecided no longer: he’s backing Barack Obama.

“The Democratic Party is fortunate to have two very talented individuals running for President this election,” said Rae in a statement released by the Obama campaign Thursday. “It is a difficult choice for anyone, but in the end, the choice for me has become clear. I am proudly supporting Senator Barack Obama.”

He cited Obama’s support from an overwhelming majority of young voters as the major reason for his decision.

[madfloridian]

1. Dean mentioned him in an interview...paid him a great compliment.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1846


"Dean: They are going to follow the wishes of the voters in their states, and I'll tell you why. They are elected by the voters in their states. Superdelegates are not cigar-smoking people who take corporate jet rides from lobbyists. Superdelegates are elected by the same people who went and elected the other delegates. For example, there are two classes, and one is elected officials -- senators, governors, congressmen. Those people are responsive to their own electorate. If you go and vote for a governor and you work in their campaign and you do all the things that activist Democrats do, you're going to have the ability to call the governor's people and say, look, I really want the governor to vote this way in the primary. That is part of the democratic process.

The other class of people are DNC members. Anderson Cooper of CNN did a great interview last week with a 21-year-old college student from Wisconsin. He is a superdelegate. How did he get to be one? He went to the Wisconsin Democratic convention with his friends, ran a campaign, handed out stuff and won at a convention of 6,000 delegates and became a DNC member. The DNC looks like the Democratic Party. It is ethnically diverse, racially diverse; 50 percent of them are women. So the idea that the superdelegates are somehow going to fix this process -- that's not so. They are just like everybody else and they will vote according to what they believe is the right thing to do for the Democratic Party and for the country

[Cha]

8. Thanks for that, mad..very

enlightening for us political junkies.

[apocalypsehow]

2. One more! Wonderful - the trend is becoming inevitable. YES WE CAN!

n/t

[Yurovsky]

3. Apparently, Chelsea's not a closer ...

perhaps she should have sprung for dinner instead of breakfast. My vote would cost more than a Starbucks & a scone. It's not like she can't afford it, either.

[KAZ]

4. These snarky comments are unbecoming. Time to mend.

.. fences, don't ya think?

[Yurovsky]

5. I'd like to ...

but everytime I start to think it's time to embrace the HRC camp, her campaign does something else that drives me insane (going after pledged delegates, trying to seat MI & FL delegates, etc).

I'm trying to come around. I've refrained from a lot of the less pleasant things I've said about HRC in the recent past. It's just a personal struggle (and I'm not trying to be a smartass, honest).

[KAZ]

6. I know. I feel the same way. Thanks for the nice reply. n/t

[BringBigDogBack]

7. zerox was down...

[populistdriven]

9. GG!