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On April 17, the News & Record Editorial Board addressed the subject of a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. You wrote, “We’re excited. Finally, our votes matter.” If our votes matter, how is it that six superdelegates from North Carolina already support Barack Obama and I support Hillary Clinton.
Can someone please explain why we are going to the polls? It makes no sense to me.
Anna Holland
Oak Ridge
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Ok, declared Obama Super Delegates:
G.K. Butterfield
David Price
Mel Watt
Those three are elected officials, meaning if you don't like what they do VOTE THEM OUT!
Joyce Brayboy
Everett Ward
Dannie Montgomery
These three are DNC officials and there isn't a whole lot we can do about their vote. On the same hand Susan Burgess has pledged Hillary so there are only two Super Delegates net that we can't do anything about. There are still 16 undecided, how many have you called or emailed? (www.superdelegateinfo.org)
I'll only be upset at the Super Delegates if they split the party by picking someone who doesn't have more pledged delegates.
The DNC screwed itself by having so many primaries early in the hopes that HRC would wrap it up. Then BHO came along and he started winning. He won in part because the primaries were early and he was unvetted. Now that more is known about him and HRC has kicked him a few times he is struggling.
One last point, we live in NC.......in the end our Democrat vote for president doesn't count anyway :)
Posted on April 24, 2008 10:41 AM
"And now a few brief messages from our sponsors"...
Posted on April 24, 2008 11:03 AM
Hillary wants to ignite the building if she can't win--sad.
Glad to see the NC GOP doing what they do best--and early too! Their ad against the two opposition gubernatorial candidates takes the cake--but is but a foretaste of things to come.
Mean, divisive, racial code words...and they used to wait until after the primary! They can't rally behind "McBush" so they demonize the opposition. Perfect party for neocon, Dan, Tonymo, et al.
Posted on April 24, 2008 5:39 PM
Why have superdelegates in the first place? Sounds a lot like the Communist Party - let the party decide what's good, what do the people know? Why not direct election of candidates and get these "parties" out of the way.
Posted on April 25, 2008 9:20 AM
Hmm. Isn't the superdelagate system only in the democratic party ? It does seem strangly communist.
Imagine that......
Posted on April 25, 2008 9:19 PM