02-13-2008, 05:35 PM | #401 |
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Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas....I'm not counting Hillary out yet. She and Obama are pretty much tied in delegates right now, in addition to the fact that she won the votes of FL and MI (but no delegates).
Anyone want to place bets? P.S. did anyone notice that Mike Gravel never dropped out of the race?
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02-13-2008, 06:13 PM | #403 | |
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No. He failed to get the Republican nomination and ran as an Independent.
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They can turn into little bunny foo foo after being elected, there are a lot of factors. But he was elected from the RIGHT.
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02-13-2008, 07:25 PM | #404 |
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He ran in '76, right? I think we're talking about the same guy...
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Voting for Obama, then?
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Gotta love this style... Btw Sis, you're right...not the same guy we're talking about. I do think I've heard his name bandied around before though...
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02-14-2008, 12:42 AM | #407 |
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This isn't voting, exactly. The peeple voted, now we select delegates to be the voice of the voters, proportional in each district to the state convention, then from the state convention to the national.
It's more like voting who gets a ticket for the field trip. No matter how we aggrandize ourselves, we're more like waiters than chefs.
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This seems like the deal in West Virginia, where the McCain delegates revoted with the Huckabee delegates.
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Each representative district caucuses and selects their delegates to the state convention. Obama delegates caucus separately from Hillary delegates, who are separate from Biden delegates, etc. Each caucus selects 2 delegates and an alternate to go to the state, and there we winnow it down to select our delegates to go to the national. So, in practice, I'm in a circle of a dozen people, or so. All of us are prospective state delegates from the same neighborhoods favoring the same candidate. We introduce ourselves and state briefly why we should be picked to go. Your reasons might range from "I'm passionate about this candidate and have to be part of seeing her, him elected." to "I've been working on campaigns for 40 years, this time is my turn to go to the national." Some people are newcomers, some of us have worked together for years. We get a review of guidelines (we try to send a diverse group) and then we vote. If you adore your candidate, you make sure to vote for someone who won't be swayed on the floor by people wooing them. Clear as mud, I'm sure.
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I wanna be a delegate! Actually, I would just like to volunteer for the McCain campaign here in TN. I don't know how to do that though...
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Rush Limbaugh is confusing . That's all there is to it.
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02-14-2008, 12:59 PM | #414 | |
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He just wants to go to the Inaugural Ball. He's an idiot, and he really expected his "dittoheads" to follow him anywhere.
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I just had a storming thought: what's going to happen to John McCain's seat? There's been some rumors of him resigning it.
Btw, I'm going to raise the McCain flag in my sig....big deal for me
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Romney to endorse McCain later on today
That's a lot of delegates to give McCain. What a Valentine's Day gift, eh?
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This time may be an exception, since it appears as if Obama is inspiring many to vote who do not normally do so, but we'll have to see. In general, those who do not vote are largely on the left. The idea of "energizing the base" is largely overrated in general elections because, when push comes to shove, the base almost always ends up voting, and voting for their chosen party. The one's you have to energize are the ones on the fringes.
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Very interesting, BJ.
*cough* as one pundit has put it, the only flipping Romney will be doing is flipping the bird to Huckabee before he kills Huck's campaign *cough
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Third party candidates are a different story, but there doesn't look to be any this time around.
And I'd say that "single issue" voters, those who won't vote based on what they don't like as opposed to what they do, are a small enough population to not really matter. I also would not call them "base" voters. Independents are far and away the largest swing vote and thus, by definition, decide every election. The real reason why candidates play to their bases is not for votes, but for money, which is much more likely to come from that angle. They just don't dare say it out loud.
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