barack obama is the democratic presidential nominee for the 2008 general election so demconwatch has decided that we will no longer be updating our superdelegate lists or tables.we would like to thank everyone who has helped us out with our superdelegate lists and delegate trackers. special thanks go to yousri quon mom amot charlie and ed espinoza. thanks also to all of our readers and commenters ...
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this from mr. super live at the rules and bylaws committee i would love to see a counter testimony from a state that wanted to move up its primary but chose not to......
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heres one from mr. super at the rules and bylaws committee ickes not at the table remember that harold ickes was one of the movers on the committee when they decided to punish florida and michigan in the first place. of course this was before his chosen candidate needed florida and michigan id be interested in hearing what ickes has to say you know what his opinion is today at least.......
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mr. super has been sending me updates from the rules and bylaws committee. here are his first few outside crowds have started to die down. nearly all rally signs were professionally made not home made. no significant obama presence. a lot of activists have taken to the lobby and are watching the mtg on big screens. they are largely well behaved. in the room nelson testifying. partisan audience sup...
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sure puerto rico south dakota and montana may be the only primaries left on the democratic nominating calendar. but none of them have the privilege of hosting the partys last most important battle. that honor goes instead to washington d.c. on saturday the dncs rules and bylaws committee will meet in our nations capital to resolve the dispute over florida and michigan the two states stripped ...
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i keep hearing from folks what a screwed up process we have on the democratic side to decide our nominee. those republicans dont have these superdelegates and their primaries are mostly winner take all. heck even some high ranking people in hillary clintons campaign point to the republican rules being so much better because well they think they would have done better with those. leave aside the fa...
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ed espinoza aka mr. super who just endorsed barack obamalots of variables tossed around recently as to how to consider who should be the democratic nominee. pledged delegates popular vote electoral vote who leads in general election matchup polling who has more blue state andor red state wins. peter funt satirically wrote that senator clinton has won more new states whereas someone else noted that...
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...tions. alumni and long time members of the arizona young democrats also know espinoza as the ringleader of the lamentably gone lat pac.......
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a few months ago mr. super reminded us that there are no undecided superdelegatesjust undeclared ones.a in otherwords superdelegateslike most of the rest of ushave an idea who they personally support but want to wait for the most opportune time to declare that support or maybe they are hoping that they wont have to declare their support until after a nominee is determined. more......
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a month ago we set to work on figuring out how the uncommitted superdelegates would ultimately vote. now it is time for an update and a call to action. i would like to echo chriss sentiments from yesterday he said the 228 uncommitted superdelegates who have already voted in the nomination campaign but not publicly endorsed are acting irresponsibly. these are people who can help bring a resolution ...
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