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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:44 PM Original message |
To anyone hoping for a Super Delegate coup: Do you think it's Democratic? |
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GarbagemanLB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. What exactly is the point of having a primary if the pledged delegate leader isn't the winner? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. Superdelegates' choices are entirely their own. It's not a coup, it's the rules. |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. OK, do you see "the rules" as Democratic? n/t |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. No. And that includes the same rules that give disproportionate weight to Alaska, Idaho and Wyoming. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. I have never felt the way we select Presidents is democratic. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. The end game for her is very simple: hope he dies, becomes incapacitated, or ruined |
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Taxmyth (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Caucuses are not democratic and excluding MI and FL is not democratic |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 12:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I'm I'll for a redo in MI/FLA |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Caucuses are not democratic -- and in TX people get to vote TWICE |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. They love the rules, of course, when they favor their side! |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
9. It really depends on the circumstance |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Some would you say your over reacting.... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. is anybody in her camp really pondering what a coup by Super Delegates would look like |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Sadly, I agree... |
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Taxmyth (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-24-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. The longer the race continues |
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