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Originally Posted by GatorB
Then WHY is it if Hillary gets the nomination because of the super delegates Obama supporters are saying she STOLE his nomination. You can't have it both ways.
As for as florida, it was the REPUBLICAN controlled Fl legislature and the REPUBLICAN governor that moved up the date of the democratic primary. So I'm not sure why the DNC chooses to blame Florida democrats and punish them for something they had ZERO control over. Kind of like blaming Jews for the Holocaust.
You bring up Hillary like I support her. I don't like that fat bitch anymore than I like Obama.
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Again you're quoting things Obama supporters have said and trying to make that stick to the candidate, or to me. That's not an intellectually honest argument.
The fact of the matter is that the rules definitely allow superdelegates to do whatever they want, as a matter of fact pledged delegates are only required to stick with their candidate for the first ballot....if it takes more than one ballot at the convention to select a nominee then the pledged delegates for Obama and Clinton could vote for William Henry Harrison if they really wanted to.
However, if the superdelegates end up nominating the person with fewer votes and fewer pledged delegates, then alot of people will
feel like the nomination was stolen, they will
feel like their votes in the primaries didn't matter because it will
seem like there was a back room deal to nominate someone other than the person the voters wanted. So while it's perfectly within the rules to do this, there would be consequences from the voters and the superdelegates know this.
As for Florida...you can't blame it on the republicans, because the democrats in the legislature didn't vote against the measure. They didn't even make a stand on principle, so there was implicit collusion there....they hoped that someone out there would make the argument that you're making now so that they could have an earlier primary.
If we let that happen then we'll have 40 states moving their primaries to New Year's day in 4 years because they want to be as important as Iowa and New Hampshire.
Personally, I prefer the republicans solution to this which was to strip the state of half their delegates rather than not count them at all....and then they allowed all of the candidates to campaign there.