In addition to Sophie Masloff, the former mayor of Pittsburgh, Hillary Clinton picked up the support of Bill Burga, a former president of the Ohio AFL-CIO and Jackie Speier, a California lawmaker who this week took over the late Tom Santos’s seat in Congress. That’s a gain of three superdelegates for Hillary in the past 36 hours.
Go Hillary!
ReplyDeletePlease tell your superdelegates about the 15% Caucus Skew against Hillary's older-women core support. The whole dynamic with the superdelegates will change in a heartbeat when this story finally gets told by One (non-lemming) Honest Reporter. It will be clear that No-Absentee-Ballots-Allowed Caucus States cheated hundreds & hundreds of thousands of Hillary's voters of their rightful share of pledged delegates & popular vote, their precious voter endorsements. These loyal Democrats have a rising anguish & fury that they have been shamefully silenced, disappeared.
ReplyDeleteTo jump to the punchline, note that in Texas, Hillary's voters were plus four in the primary and minus twelve in the caucus on the same day, same state. A 16% swing! Suppose we had only seen the grotesquely anti-democratic caucus results? That's what happened in caucus Iowa etc. The difference? Not organization, not passion of voters. Nonsense. The lack of an Absentee Ballot for caucuses.
I did thousands of volunteer phone calls starting in Iowa. 87-yr-old Vera put me on red alert when she said, "Oh no, honey I can't caucus, I'm a cripple." Taken aback, I blurted, "Well, maybe you could vote by mail Absentee?" She said, "If I can't be there in my body, I don't count."
The Will of the People? Which people? The Will of (Only the Healthy) People? That's why we have conventions and superdelegates. To look at the hidden truth. This Caucus Scandal is rotten in our democratic soul. Vera should count. In America the hundreds & hundreds of thousands of Veras should count.
caucusdebacle you could not be more correct. The old, the handicapped, and the people working shifts are completely disenfranchised by this process. The DNC knows this, yet they are acting like Obama is the next Messiah.
ReplyDeleteI have to tell you for a Messiah, he sure makes a lot of mistakes.
I saw the Iowa caucus first hand, and phone banked the Texas caucua.
The DNC is going to lose a lot of people over this.
NewMexicoFan ..
ReplyDeleteI'm not afraid of these disappeared folks voting for McCain. I'm afraid that they just won't vote. I know how dismayed I am at this mockery of democracy.
it's been one for the history books - no doubt about it and both dem candidates would make great presidents. but obama didn't invent the caucus system. bill clinton won the nomination under the same rules. the system needs to be overhauled, but it's not really fair to do it in the middle of the fight.
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