Maybe it was better in the old days. Let's just let Daley , LBJ and George Meany choose the nominee

theboss

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:16 AM
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Maybe it was better in the old days. Let's just let Daley , LBJ and George Meany choose the nominee

No offense to Puerto Rico, but when its primary is playing a role in this process, democracy may have actually gone too far.

I think I liked it better when six or seven guys determined who the nominee was going to be. And the funny thing was: we won elections back hen doing it that way.

Ever since we changed the process in '68 and '72, we've won three elections - and only one of those involved a candidate winning a true two-man race. And in any other year, he would have lost as well.

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MrsT

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:18 AM
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1. Perot had nothing to do with Clinton's victories

exit polls and research show that Perot voters would have gone equally for Bush and Clinton.
Just thought you should know.

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MattBaggins

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:43 AM
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5. Just thought you should know

that many folks still debate that assessment. Perot drew approximately equal numbers of Bush/Clinton supporters in national polls but the regional and state breakdowns varied. I could not care less myself but the state by state effect of Perot is not so simple as you suggest.

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Radical Activist

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:20 AM
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2. It seems that's what Hillary wants with having the superdelegates pick the nominee.

The primary voters chose a nominee and Obama deserves the same chance to be declared the presumptive nominee early that Bill Clinton, Gore and Kerry all had.

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Captain Hilts

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:21 AM
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3. Letting Puerto Rico is another example of Dems playing flag football when it's a tackle game.

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theboss

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Mon Jun-02-08 09:36 AM
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4. By the way, under the old system, Hillary is probably the clear-cut nominee

And I'm kind of fine with that.

(What I'm not particularly fine with is her pushing the old rules in the middle of a primary season based on the new rules).

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