Why wasn't Hillary so concerned about Florida and Michigan until AFTER they voted?

The DNC made the decision long before the primaries even started after all. Did Hillary protest it then? No. Hillary didn't begin screaming to reinstate the delegate slates from those states until after they voted. Before that, we didn't even hear a peep from her. If she's legitimately concerned about disenfranchising the voters of those states then why is that?

She got in the news about it. I saw it as a way to have the newspapers help her campaign, without her technically breaking the rule against campaigning. It was slick, but not awful like some of her other campaign tactics have been.

However, I think if you go back to when the DNC decision was made, you will find that she didn't have much to say.

Your essential point stands: she didn't start making noise until she was sure it could help her.

argue against it. So why is she doing so now?

FL into her column through their little game.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5492

But hey why ask people to be accurate with their smears.

in the same statement: "But I hope to be President of all 50 states and U.S. territories." Why, then, has her campaign constantly dismissed states that voted for Obama as not mattering?

Still rather late? Also rather conveniently after Iowa and New Hampshire have voted...

Before IA & NH had voted and afterwards.

He can't run it in only 49 states. Considering Florida was worth 0 delegates I see no reason why he'd spend all that money just as a way of advertising in a meaningless beauty contest. That'd be a bigger waste of money than how the Hillary campaign staffers are spending it now apparently.

No other candidates (except for a couple of Rudy commericals on Fox News Sunday) had run a national campaign yet.

The pledge before Iowa & New Hampshire was interpreted that drastic action must be taken to prevent even a hint of Obama participation in MI.

But in FL? After IA & NH had voted, he sought permission to run TV ads.

Notice the drastic nature of one approach vs the other.

Maybe once an Obama supporter will admit removing his name from the MI ballot was more political stunt than dutiful honoring of a pledge. But I won't count on it.

The results there didn't matter. It'd be like complaining about him running ads in Europe.

Or even better, complaining about him running ads on TV and radio stations in Georgia and Alabama that reach Florida.

"Or even better, complaining about him running ads on TV and radio stations in Georgia and Alabama that reach Florida."

DNC rules cover that. Basically any ad that reach's a significant portion of that state's voters qualifies as campaigning.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportEmail.aspx?g=4e581176-58bf-46f1-9f36-2e397ecefffa

Yea, that says something.

So why did she wait that long rather than protest it right after the DNC made the decision?

"So why did she wait that long rather than protest it right after the DNC made the decision?"

Many people held out hope for compromise. I am sure her campaign did as well.

Shit Obama himself was hinting to FL supporters in Sept that he would seat the delegates.


The Tampa Tribune reported that Obama “hinted” he would seat Florida’s delegates anyway if he becomes the party’s presumptive nominee. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said the statement was misreported.

According to Vietor, Obama was asked whether he would seat Florida’s delegates if he were the presumptive nominee. Vietor said Obama answered the question by saying he was so far from being the presumptive nominee that to answer the question would be arrogant.

The St. Petersburg Times reported on a different event, providing a transcript of the brief question-and-answer with Obama and a reporter where Obama says he can’t talk to the press.

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/10/02/news/local/doc4701d430c0901180527069.txt

Only the DNC Rules committee can. Neither Hillary or Obama are on it.

un-freaking-believable.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4952452

Hey, I won't complain.

There was no need to be concerned about anything beyond Super Tuesday.