Yezzir!
Posted on 04/22/2008 5:35:56 AM PDT by shortstop
Great point about Dean and Rove!
The basic Democrat problem is that if they let the party faithful nominate candidates, they will pretty much always lose. So they temper their over-egalitarian proportional delegate awards in each state (no winner-take-cll, as the Republicans do) with the idea of superdelegates, which pretty much admits that the heirarchy is afraid the rank and file will pick a leftist kook.
In a year when the Republicans are on the ropes, this Rube Goldberg scheme gives me some hope.
Dean, Pelosi and Ried. Those Dems sure can pick leaders.
Lonsberry is a local talk show host on WHAM 1180,
FWIW a mormon.
Whom is to the left of these two?
Whom is to the left of these two?
The only republicans this cycle are Ron Paul and Tancredo.. and a couple of even more obscure candidates.. The republican system is the one that sucks.. The democrats select obvious malefactors not covert ones..
I disagree with that assessment. Under GOP rules, Hillary would have locked up (or come darn close to it) the nomination after winning the popular vote in Texas. The GOP didn't penalize Michigan and Florida for moving up their primary dates, and Hillary did get over 50% of the vote in both states.
By GOP rules, Obama would have been an afterthought after Super Tuesday.
I thought it was the other way around.
Maine and Nebraska allocate electoral votes by congressional district. The constitution leaves it up to states to determine how to allocate electoral votes. It’s true that 48 of 50 states do it on a winner take all basis, but it’s not required by the constitution.
Yezzir!
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