Imagine the excitement and the drama as the race for the democrat nominee goes down to the end, it’s too close to call a leading victory for either Clinton or Obama, so the super delegates gather to make the final call with the wisp of a puff of smoke.
The current results of the Democrat primaries up through Wisconsin, Washington and Hawaii put Obama in the lead over Clinton 1319 to 1245 and the super delegate count favors Clinton 246 to Obama’s 170, with 303 uncommitted and 76 add-on delegates. Nose to nose. Exciting. Either one could come away the victor, unlike the republican race, where McCain is substantially walking away with it.
But there are confusing thoughts and ideas that are circulating, which could just throw the entire democrat primary and caucus process out the window as trash, totally disregarded.
You’ve been thinking that when you vote that your vote counts.
You’ve been under the assumption that when you pull the trigger, punch out the circle, connect the dots next to your candidate of choice, that your vote will be counted toward the dots you connected? You may be wrong. You just may be naive at the way things really work in democrat primaries. Those appointed super delegates could decide this entire race.
“Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.”
“What? Isn’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?”
“Wrong.”
“Pledged delegates are not really pledged at all, not even on the first ballot. This has been an open secret in the party for years, but it has never really mattered because there has almost always been a clear victor by the time the convention convened.” Read more . . .
Don’t you just love the rules of fairness the democrat party thinks up?
And what about those super delegates? Well, to put it simply, they are party big shots, Governors, Representatives, Senators, members of the Democrat National Committee, and Distinguished party leaders. They can make up their own minds at the convention. They can pledge one way now and change their mind later. They total 795, a large enough figure that could and would sway the nomination in a tight race.
“Superdelegates represent about 20 percent of the Democrats’ 4,049 delegate votes. Both Clinton and Obama have assiduously courted them in recent months, hoping to clench enough to obtain the 2,025 votes needed to secure the nomination. As of Monday, Clinton leads Obama 222 to 128 among superdelegates.” Politico.com
Don’t you just love the way the democrat party thinks? You the voter are screwed. You voted for A, in fact your entire state overwhelmingly voted for A and you were thinking that all those delegates would show up at the convention and cast the state count for candidate A. It just may not be the way things work out.
Special rules have been developed that could and would put the election in the hands of a select appointed few super delegates if this race continues to be close enough for that to happen. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their comrades of the DNC could have a closed door session and make the final decision. Just imagine thousands upon thousands of the faithful democrats on the streets of Denver waiting for the word that the super delegation has chosen the final victor. It’d be like the Vatican Square packed elbow to elbow waiting for the smoke to billow out of the stack. What drama, what excitement, what a thrill. The media would have a field day covering it all.
Thus is the way it could turn out.
The people’s voice would not count.
This is progressive Liberal democracy in action. Isn’t this the party that is always talking about fairness, about the little guy getting the same as those who fit into the ranks of the haves? This is the party that wants to make the economy equally fair for the less fortunate, of equalizing the playing field. This is the party that talks of making it fair for the bottom of the sociological ladder to equally afford health care. And on and on it goes, but it’s all just a bunch of horse pooh.
Why have the democrats made special rules for themselves?
Is this the way it could turn out?
At this stage of the game, the people are being heard from, but that still does not mean the peoples choice will be nominated. You may have to wait for the smoke.
This is how liberal democrats define democracy. Ultimately, the powerful decide.
As I see It.