YEAH!!!!!

ROMNEY'S OUT! WOOHOO! YES! HALLAMOOFLA!

YEAH!!!!!

ROMNEY'S OUT! WOOHOO! YES! HALLAMOOFLA!

Salon Letters: Hillary

For some reason two of my letters in Salon on this topic were selected as "editors choice". Here's the thread. I've replaced various other user names with variations on [user], to protect their privacy - silly though that is, since the posts are public on Salon. This will be quite long, by the way! There's also a bit of repetition, both within the thread and from other stuff I've written here. I do try to improve my points over time, though. For example, I much preferred "fucking" to "sleeping with" - it's funnier. But I can only use "fucking" in places where I know it won't be deleted for it.

Goodbye, Super Tuesday

Scenario: Confusion
So here's what's puzzling me.

If neither Hillary nor Obama wins sufficient delegates in the primaries and caucuses to win the nomination outright, and the whole thing goes to the Democratic convention, what then? What are the scenarios?

If the superdelegates decide it, but give it to the candidate who came in second in terms of primary/caucus votes OR elected delegates (recognizing that there can be a difference), how will the rank & file take that? And how will ordinary voters take to having the Party hierarchy make the decision for them? I realize that that was how it was done for a long time, but these days the people are used to being the ones to select the nominees. Having the party leadership decide seems ironically anti-democratic.

And given the absolutely miserable record of performance for the vast majority of the Democratic Party leadership, the thought of leaving the choice up to them is one that makes this Democrat uncomfortable.
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The thread seems to have died at at point - no one has responded since.

Tomorrow I'll try to post some stuff from Askville - it's much more varied.

Salon Letters: Hillary

For some reason two of my letters in Salon on this topic were selected as "editors choice". Here's the thread. I've replaced various other user names with variations on [user], to protect their privacy - silly though that is, since the posts are public on Salon. This will be quite long, by the way! There's also a bit of repetition, both within the thread and from other stuff I've written here. I do try to improve my points over time, though. For example, I much preferred "fucking" to "sleeping with" - it's funnier. But I can only use "fucking" in places where I know it won't be deleted for it.

Goodbye, Super Tuesday

Scenario: Confusion
So here's what's puzzling me.

If neither Hillary nor Obama wins sufficient delegates in the primaries and caucuses to win the nomination outright, and the whole thing goes to the Democratic convention, what then? What are the scenarios?

If the superdelegates decide it, but give it to the candidate who came in second in terms of primary/caucus votes OR elected delegates (recognizing that there can be a difference), how will the rank & file take that? And how will ordinary voters take to having the Party hierarchy make the decision for them? I realize that that was how it was done for a long time, but these days the people are used to being the ones to select the nominees. Having the party leadership decide seems ironically anti-democratic.

And given the absolutely miserable record of performance for the vast majority of the Democratic Party leadership, the thought of leaving the choice up to them is one that makes this Democrat uncomfortable.
( Read more... )

The thread seems to have died at at point - no one has responded since.

Tomorrow I'll try to post some stuff from Askville - it's much more varied.