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To: Izzy Dunne
If the contest is close enough where these delegates are what puts Hillary over the top, then a lot of folks will (rightly) feel that the election was stolen. When respect for the system is lost, all hell could break loose.

You're right. And the Clinton machine really has an odor about it of the later days of the Roman Republic, when elections were determined by vote fraud and campaign gatherings were broken up by hired mobs of ex-gladiators armed with swords and shields.

That kind of Latin lethality and personality-cult politics (personalismo) has come down to the present day in Mediterranean and Hispanic politics, where people die conveniently all the time by violence or the black bottle; and it is not for nothing that people refer to Clinton partisans as "Clintonistas", after their conscious emulation of the Perons of Argentina.

17 posted on 01/28/2008 1:23:24 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
And don't forget the superdelegates.

The delegate count is 315 to 156 in favor of Hillary, but CNN reports the delegate count at 63 to 48 in favor of O'bama.

Your average voter isn't going to understand the difference between what's on TV, and reality.

If the "super" delegates combine with this disenfranchisement to put Hillary over the top, lots of people will be rightly juiced, and the Al & Jesse who will start with pitchforks.

18 posted on 01/28/2008 1:37:43 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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