Huffington Post: "The Untold Story About How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan

[pathansen]

“Could the Republicans Pick the Democratic Nominee?"
3/31/08

“The presumption of much of the national coverage about Michigan, to start with, has been that the Dems did this one to themselves -- a presumption based, in large part, on Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm's endorsement of a January 15 vote, a date far ahead of the anticipated February 9 primary. All Clinton-backer Granholm did, however, was a sign a bill. The bill originated in a Republican-controlled Senate and passed by a 21-to-17 straight party-line vote -- WITH EVERY DEMOCRAT CASTING A NO VOTE."

“Florida's Republican governor, Charlie Crist, is, like Granholm, seen as a prime player behind the state's acceleration of the primary calendar. But Crist isn't half the Florida story; Marco Rubio, a Jeb Bush protégé WHO RUNS THE NEARLY 2-TO-1 REPUBLICAN FLORIDA HOUSE, drove that bill through the legislature like it was a tax cut limited by law to top GOP donors.”

“Indeed, the tracks under this train wreck trace back, in each case, to Republican maneuvers in state legislatures, political no- man's-lands for all who've blithely dismissed the disenfranchisement of the millions of registered Florida and Michigan Democrats.”

"In all the buzz about the media's pro-Obama tilt, its indifference to his resistance to including these states in the "actual" nominating process is its most disturbing favor, especially since this brand of "conventional politics," as Obama would put it, flies in the face of his contention that "the people" should pick the nominee."

“The DNC and the MSM appear to have simultaneously concluded that even Clinton's 300,000-vote win in Florida, where both candidates competed on a level playing field, shouldn't be counted in the popular vote tally, a calculation that appears nowhere in DNC rules and turns 1.7 million Democratic voters into ghosts.”

“The theory is that she should quit because there is no way she can win, and that there is no way she can win because two states she could win, at least one of which she actually did win, will not be counted until she gets out. Barack Obama would thus become the nominee -- not because of an honestly earned if precariously narrow lead in the final national vote, but because of two elections he would not let happen.”

Source: Huffington Post, 3/31/08
LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-barrett/could-the-republicans-pic_b_94158.html

[Timefortruth]

1. April Fools!

Really, this article is a joke.

[Tyler Durden]

3. Don't you wish.

We are PISSED in Michigan, and We Will Remember.

Third parties have started over far less.

[pathansen]

5. It was written on March 31

[pathansen]

16. Now why would the GOP not want Hillary to win? Big wake up call

[MercutioATC]

2. That would make sense had the Dems not laughed at their own bill in FL.

Their "protest" of the new date was a joke and they made that clear. Unfortunately for them, it was videotaped...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpHuQi17EaE

[pathansen]

6. The Fla GOP governor & GOP controlled legislature got the bill passed

[Justitia]

7. Yup, w/nearly UNANIMOUS (except for 1) approval of the state DEMS. No dice. -eom

[pathansen]

11. Where is your source? Conflicts with this article.

[Justitia]

14. HB 537, passed 115 -1, co-sponsored by Democrats

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/032107/D8O0PVN02.shtml

[madfloridian]

13. Ooooh

the lies hurt me.

[Nine]

4. Dupe. But it's an amazing article.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5329894

[Debi]

8. This article must be true - I found it on the internets!

x(

[pathansen]

10. It was in the Huffington Post

[Debi]

12. NO! Not the Huffington Post?!:!:??

Well THAT changes everything. :crazy:

[Melinda]

9. madloridian already debunked this nonsense.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5336655

[Adelante]

15. Heh - too bad we've been kept up on it in real time for a year

And know this is hogwash.

Thanks, MF :hi: