Members of the black Congressional caucus are pressing others to endorse Obama

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Thu Feb-21-08 12:59 PM
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Members of the black Congressional caucus are pressing others to endorse Obama

to "follow" the wishes of their constituents... but Kerry and Kennedy are expected to support him, too, even though Clinton won MA?

(was reported on CNN earlier, about a Congressman from Missouri).

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Metric System

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:00 PM
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1. That's ridiculous. Obama Rules I guess.

Edited on Thu Feb-21-08 01:01 PM by MetricSystem

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book_worm

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:01 PM
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2. that's the thing about Super Delegates they aren't tied to a candidate

If one candidate has clear momentum going into the convention you will see several super delegates switch to get on somebody's bandwagon.

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scheming daemons

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:01 PM
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3. Obama camp wants the SDs to vote based on the national popular vote...

....not on the popular vote in their individual states.

But nice try.

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LisaM

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:01 PM
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4. They should not be doing that. I admire the Congressional Black Caucus

very much, but it seems out of character for them to use pressure as a tactic.

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Cameron27

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:02 PM
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5. I saw that segment,

apparently they don't have a problem with the two superdelgates from NJ who've decided to vote for Obama either. Hyocrites.

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DJ13

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:04 PM
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6. "but Kerry and Kennedy are expected to support him, too, even though Clinton won MA?"

The call is to have super delegates represent the will of the majority, not state by state.

Representing their individual constituents on a state by state basis is the Clinton spin (and wont solve a deadlock), but most people (outside of the Hillary camp) are talking about the national vote totals, or the pledged delegate totals.

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Thu Feb-21-08 01:15 PM
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7. If super delegates are expected to follow the popular votes, then why even bother with them?

Yes, I agree, that's a separate issue.

However the idea of super delegates is, I think, to tweak the popular votes so either they have the freedom to vote their way or they don't. If they cannot vote as they wish then this institution needs to be abolished.

Just curious: if Clinton were winning, would the Obamnites react the same way?

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