Selected, Not Elected
April 25, 2008 – 3:53 pmI’m reminded of this because of a conversation going on at Althouse’s regarding the 60 Minutes interview with Justice Scalia that will air on Sunday. From one of the sound bites that CBS has released in advance of broadcasting the interview, Justice Scalia speaks about Bush v Gore:
“It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question…. We didn’t go looking for trouble. It was he who said, ‘I want this to be decided by the courts,’” says Scalia. “What are we supposed to say — ‘Not important enough?’”
Coming back to the present and near future, let’s look at the Democrat convention in Colorado in August.
Neither candidate has enough pledged delegates to cinch the nomination.
Two states’ delegates were reduced to zero as punishment from the Democratic National Committee for holding their primaries prior to Iowa and New Hampshire.
Hillary Clinton has said that she has the lead in actual votes versus pledged delegates, but that counts votes in Florida and Michigan where Barack Obama wasn’t even on the ballot.
The vote count also doesn’t include the counts of people in caucuses where Barack Obama did better than Hillary Clinton.
The nomination will come down to the Super delegates, those professional politicians who were designated to be the “choosers” to avoid another McGovern debacle.
In the end, the Democrat nominee will be selected, not elected.
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After all the spouting at the mouth Hillary did over Bush v. Gore, all I can say is Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it.
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Coming back to the present and near future is important for Democrat convention.
I am not an US. But I will happy if a Democrat nominee win. Sorry if I interfere about your personal meter.
The way the Dem system is set up it’s not that big of a deal for a candidate to not have enough elected delegates to reach the threshold for nomination. It’s set up to work that way. In the end the candidate with the most elected delegates (that is and will be Obama) will be the nominee. He will be the nominee because he won the most delegates, the most states, and the most votes (despite whatever insanity clinton is saying this week.)
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