Florida Dems Don’t Matter?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Bad DecisionsFlorida moved up its primary to January 29th. The DNC’s response? They can’t send any delegates to the convention!
Florida will lose all its delegates to the Democratic National Convention unless the state moves its primary from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5, the Democratic Party decided Saturday.While the one-week change may seem trivial to outsiders, the decision by the party’s powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee was seen as a crucial test of party power and discipline.
As several states continue to elbow each other to go earlier and earlier in the 2008 presidential calendar, the Democratic National Committee decided to draw a line in the sand and say “enough.â€
How in the hell does that make sense? Florida is usually one of THE swing states. Doesn’t it make sense for it to be a deciding factor for the Dem nomination?
…shaking my head…
Honestly, this is why primaries need to rotate. Do some type of lottery where every state gets to go first at some point.
And did you know that the whole New Hampshire paradigm is based on nothing more than state law? That’s right. New Hampshire actually has a law on their books that states they have to be first…but none of us got to vote on that in 1977.
Time for a change folks.
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August 25th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
“Honestly, this is why primaries need to rotate. Do some type of lottery where every state gets to go first at some point.”
Absolutely, every state should have its turn and the electoral college should be abolished. Every Americans’ vote should count. I think every presidential candidate should receive the same amount of money for their campaigns, paid by the tax payer. We should take the “money factor” out of who becomes president in this country.
If you have the best policies and you get elected by popular vote, and not according to how much money corporations and interests donate to your “bribe coffers” then so be it.
August 26th, 2007 at 1:23 am
he Democrats may be writing off Florida and the South, in their apparent quest to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, a feat they’ve accomplished in ‘68, ‘80, ‘00 and probably will continue to do as they drift into anarchic hysteria.
Aided by the leftermost hyperventilators like KKKos and Puffington Host, the Dems will get a Politburo/PoliticalCommissariat type political culture very soon now, unless adults take the wheel from the feverish hands of Dr. Howard Dean and his apparatchiki!
Will Rogers said it eighty years ago and it’s still true. “I belong to no organized political party……..â€
August 26th, 2007 at 5:25 am
NH is the first in the nation and it should remain that way… All of this political posturing is unnecessary. http://www.enewsreference.com
August 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Interesting turn of events. Is there a way that the Florida Democrats can assert their independence? If not given seats to the national convention, can they still place the winner of their January primary on to the ballot regardless of who wins the national nomination?
August 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
“How in the hell does that make sense? Florida is usually one of THE swing states. Doesn’t it make sense for it to be a deciding factor for the Dem nomination?”
Because, if you hadn’t noticed, the Democratic party has finally show it’s true face. The face of the Stalinist totalitarian. It is a party that no longer even pretends to listen to “the people”-the only ones they are listening to are the tin foil hat wearing LLL nutroots and the Soros backed moveon.org. All the 2008 convention will be is one great big choreographed fraud. One where the delegates are like extras in the movies.
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