Obama or Clinton? You don’t get to decide
After last night’s ‘big’ Clinton victory in Pennsylvania it is now impossible for either her or Senator Obama to claim the 2,025 delegates needed to secure the nomination. What does this mean? It means that your vote no longer counts.
As of today Obama has 1,719 delegates, while Clinton has managed 1,586.
The now infamous ‘Super delegates’ will now decide who the Democratic nominee will be. Isn’t that just great? These candidates raise and spend tens of millions of dollars per month, campaign up and down the country to get their message across to us voters, and it doesn’t even matter if we vote because these ‘Super delegates,’ not you, will now decide who the nominee will be.
What the heck is a Super delegate? “Super-delegates are designed to act as a check on ideologically extreme or inexperienced candidates. It also gives power to people who have a vested interested in party policies: elected leaders. ” (source: About.com). Super delegates were a reaction to Democratic nominee George McGovern in 1972. In the general election McGovern won only one state and a mere 37.5% of the popular vote.
This is another example of how voters are not trusted to pick their leaders. It ensures that the same brand of entrenched politics will always be around.
CHANGE we can believe in? Let’s hope so, because old school Democratic fat cats are not likely to vote for someone who wants to change anything.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
hey miller’s back! superdelegates are stupid, just like the electoral college
April 25th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Well they both have socialist agenda’s so it really doesn’t matter which one gets the nomination does it? Either “Ridin’ Nasty’s” wife or Obama will perfectly fit the bill as surrogate nanny for all the 20-30 year olds whose goal it is to never lift a finger and get a real job.
Oh yeah, good to see you back Miller, figured you were either dead or in jail but your obviously not dead so we can only guess as to why you haven’t had net access for the last 60 days…