If Teddy leaves the Senate, what happens to his seat?

Do they hold a special election or does Deval Patrick appoint someone?

He's been having some trouble as govenor and his popularity isn't great right now.

I'm enjoying this pledged delegate majority! :rofl:

together, more people voted for Hillary than the so called leader Obama.

Even Sen. Robert Byrd didn't break to Hillary Clinton. Here's something for you to consider: undeclared is not the same as undecided. Many of the supers have hinted that they've decided but want to let the 50-state strategy play out to keep Dem voter registration up. You should be concerned that Obama didn't feel the need to campaign in Kentucky. If 80% of the undecided supers within the undeclared supers group had told him he needed to make progress in Kentucky, he would have been there. But he wasn't. What does that tell you?

Undeclared does not equal undecided. Do you think Pelosi is going to vote for Hillary? Even though she and many others have said that they will vote for whoever gets the pledged delegate majority? You still waiting on Jimmy Carter or Al Gore to endorse Hillary? Keep waiting.

Last I checked, the Convention was in August. :shrug:

February-

Ickes, a DNC member and superdelegate himself, said the campaign expects Clinton to "hold her own" in Wisconsin, to win Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania and to have come close to closing the delegate gap with Obama by March 5th. He said by the end of the process on June 7th, when Puerto Rico votes, she would be "neck and neck" with Obama and would wrap up the nomination soon after. Ickes said the nomination would be settled "before we get to the floor" of the convention but that the campaign would take this fight all the way to Denver.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/16/67135...


March-

We’re going all the way to the convention- http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=1e4e7d43-ffb...

Hillary Clinton: I'm Taking this Fight to the Convention Floor- http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/7/17934/21364

Despite widespread worries among Democrats that the Democratic race has become too divisive, Hillary Clinton says she will stay in the race until the Democratic Convention in late August:

“A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July 1, Clinton defied that call by declaring that she will take her campaign all the way to the Aug. 25-28 convention if necessary, potentially setting up the prolonged and divisive contest that party leaders are increasingly anxious to avoid.

“I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are wrong,” Clinton said in an interview during a campaign stop here Saturday. “I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don’t resolve it, we’ll resolve it at the convention — that’s what credentials committees are for.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032901909.html?hpid=topnews

“You know, you can always go to the convention. That’s what credential fights are for,” she said. “Let’s have the Democratic party go on record against seating the Michigan and Florida delegations three months before the general election? I don’t think that will happen. I think they will be seated. So that’s where we’re headed if we don’t get this worked out.” http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/26/clinton-insists-dems-race-is-a-long-way-from-over-looks-toward-convention/

Sounds like she's winding down her campaign. I commend her on a great battle. :rofl:

She bet against black in this primary season version of Vegas roulette. She landed on red alright. $30 million in the red! :rofl:

200+ folks are thinking. Don't project. What we do know is that SDs have been streaming in for Obama and steering clear of hilly for months. And nothing that's happened has changed that. Not PA or WV. It's ridiculous to think that hillykin's win yesterday will change that pattern

:)

He left the a big deficit in Mass.

He doesn't let anyone get anything done.

Nailed it. Non-MAssholes, or our fellow MA residents who are delusional Clinton supporters, refuse to acknowledge this when expressing their utter disdain for Gov Patrick.

:scared:

couldn't get elected dog catcher there anymore. His positions have shifted way to right wing since leaving the Govenor's mansion.

He originally ran as a liberal on social issues conservative on fiscal issues.

was a rather awesome stunt to have pulled off.

and if you take offense to this I'm sorry. I'm a Christian but anti-church establishment. The people who have money and donate a large portion of it to the church generally get their own rules.

I meant that posing as a 'social liberal' while being a member of one of the leading mormon families, a church which is massively social conservative on all issues, was quite a trick to pull off.

the entire time he was in Bain Capital so he had funded them probably upword of 20-50 million. He could of gotten away with alot.

...

that they fill it temporarily and that the govenor has 145 days to hold a special election.

....so the then Republican governor Mitt Romneyr would not appoint a Republican if Kerry won the Presidency.

http://thehill.com/john-fortier/untimely-vacancies-2007-06-20.html



But the Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution says:



So it looks like the Massachusetts legislature can set an election date as soon as seen necessary.

Edit: Didn't see beachmom's post.

That is certain.

as we do not have a definitive prognosis for Teddy's illness. This is just an exploration of the law in an extremely hypothetical way.

I hope this is a game plan that the Dem party has been preparing for some time.

But, well-remembered about the prognosis.

First openly gay senator?

Trying to see which Kennedy could replace him.

It's almost impossible to think of Massachusetts not having a Kennedy represent it.

But he chose to not run again because of some scandal or another. Besides, Joe's not among the brightest members of the Kennedy clan. Maybe Ted Jr? I don't know much about him, just that he lost a leg to cancer when he was a teenager.

This tidbit from his Wiki is certainly interesting.

"On May 10, 2007, a story in the New York Post said that according to Patrick Kennedy, his brother Edward Jr. was "eying a Connecticut Congressional seat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kennedy%2C_Jr.

This also sounds somewhat intriguing.

http://www.comhs.org/community/pr_view.asp?pr=64

However whoever takes his seat should do so out of merit and not the name. I don't have a real place in my heart for political dynasties. That's 75% of the reason why I gave Obama a chance in the first place.

I guess the idea is, considering no one could replace him, why not give his son a shot?

I don't know.

The bigger question might be, who's going to carry the liberal cause in the Senate?

What do you think about giving the seat to Dean?

and I'd rather have someone from the state or who has lived there take the seat. Given the history with Kerry as well I don't see that working out.

Derrr. Forgot about that.

Sigh.

I hate this.

And that would not be kosher with MA voters.

And Hillary is not "from" New York.

People work around these things.

much more than he would enjoy being a freshman Senator.

He is a great Mass. Dem

He's teaching at UC Berkeley.

the year that Romney won.

And we ended up with the state treasuer as the nominee instead. And she ran a crappy campaign, allowing Mittens to win. :(

She could have a lifetime job there....:)

Definitely. Delahunt is my Rep.

Senator from MA in Kennedy's stead? Barney Frank has been wanting Kerry's seat since he entered politics (which is why he fell over himself trying to get Kerry elected in 2004), so I believe he would find a way to "make that happen."

I think he'll be back at work soon after Memorial Day.

But Harkin -- like many of his colleagues -- said he was sure Kennedy would return to the Senate he loves. "I'm counting on having him back for the Obama administration,'' Harkin said.


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/05/kennedy_would_l.html