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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:22 PM
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Please remember that if Obama has enough delegates to become the nominee in Denver...(VPNotHRC).
Edited on Sun May-11-08 01:28 PM by Wolsh
he will also control the floor at the convention. Hillary is not going to be able to force her way onto the ticket, or change the rules anymore once Obama officially locks in those delegates.

No floor fights, Hillary won't be able to do anything like that, because she won't have the delegates.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:23 PM
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1. Exactly
Ask Jerry Brown how his convention challenge went.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:39 PM
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3. Its fun to dream though,right?
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4themind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:28 PM
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2. As long as he has the supers support he'll be fine.
Whatever deck she's stacked in the "uncommitted" vote in michigan is basically cancelled out by the number of obama supporting delegates within that group I've heard. Also, if she takes it that far, she'll have polarized the delegations so much in my view that I HIGHLY doubt that she'd pull away any pledged delegates, and I think obama's super delegates will hold barring some catastrophic scandal. Again, she can always try (minority report) but in the end in my view, he'll have the edge in numbers, and I think people will finally be fed up with the arm twisting and just go with their own sense of fair play and justice (which is probably what would have influence their candidate choice on either side anyway) We'll see if it gets that far.
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RDANGELO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:39 PM
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4. Here is the only potential problem.
Are Clinton's voters going to be so alienated that they refuse to vote for Obama in the general election.
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Blarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:41 PM
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5. if they vote for the republican..
then they are republican.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:46 PM
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6. I don't think it will matter. You MAY lose a hundred thousand Hillary supporters who would have
never voted for Obama in the first place. The vast majority of her supporters are smart rational democrats who know that voting for McCain is light years worse then swallowing their pride and voting for Obama.

So the 100k you may lose is easily made up by Obama's ability to register new voters in huge number.
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 02:45 PM
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7. You have to remember that some of Hills support in the
primary came from Rethugs crossing over. Those voters will disappear either way.
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