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Originally Posted by ericgtr
Reality: I have a better chance of winning a slam dunk contest against Micheal Jordan than Hillary does of winning this race.
Fantasy: Hillary can take this race if she knee caps and bitch slaps everyone and their mothers including the superdelegates.
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This is why I spend so little time here these days. No offense, but this is idiotic.
No one, myself included, is going to argue that Hillary has much of a change of winning the nomination. However, a lot of shit can happen between now and then.
Rev Wright can continue to be a problem Obama can't separate himself from. Other problems we haven't dreamed of may surface. Polls can change dramatically over a few weeks.
Let us not slap the voters who are still to vote in the face. Let's let them vote, so they'll feel part of the process.
It is possible, if not probable, that by the time all the votes have been cast, Obama may have some serious problems we haven't even imagined yet and will be viewed as a candidate who cannot win the general election.
That is why we have superdelegates who, in my humble opinion, should remain silent during the voting process rather than try to influence it.
These candidates also have two debates scheduled. My bet is they will both use those debates as a means of drawing the party together for the November election.
If Hillary were to drop out sooner, those debates would disappear.
Many people on this board are insulting, unpleasant, and seem to have an attitude that anyone who holds an opinion different than theirs is somehow unworthy of conversation.
It is long past time to argue Hillary vs Obama and focus on November. It is time to see how this unfolds, support the democratic candidate in November, whomever that turns out to be, and put our country above our egos.
The reality is that Obama will get this nomination unless something comes along, like a Spitzer or Craig moment, that totally destroys his chances of winning in November.
If such an incident does surface, then the superdelegates should DO THEIR JOB.
Their job includes determining if the people who voted in February knew then what is known now, would they have voted differently?
The reality is this campaign is NOT over. Shit can happen that is out of everyone's control.
Why are the Obama people so afraid of this continuing until everyone has voted? Neither will have won enough delegates at that time to put them over the top.
If the superdelegates "follow the will of their voters" won't Kerry and Kennedy have to give their vote to Hillary? How does the math look when all of that is rearranged?
Aren't the superdelegates, by definition, uncommitted?
They will not give Hillary the nomination if Obama's ahead in delegates and the popular vote, unless something convinces them he can't win, and that earlier voting simply reflected that something wasn't known at the time of the vote.
We have a system. Let's let it work itself out, rather than changing those rules we want to change, while insisting other rules can't be changed.
Anger and frustration at each other serves no good purpose.