Originally Posted by The_Heretic

She announced in advance of Florida's voting that she'd visit the state, effectively breaking her pledge. Now I agree that Florida shouldn't have lost their delegates for simply trying to break an unfair monopoly held by fuckin' Iowa and New Hampshire, but she did promise not to go and went anyway.

Time for Hillary to spawn a new drone to attack with.

Originally Posted by ericgtr

She may not have gotten any delegates out of it but she did get a "win" in the state and that gives her momentum moving forward no matter how you look at it.

Originally Posted by Dr. Zaius

What do you think the Edwards announcement does?

Originally Posted by Dr. Zaius

That is not campaigning! LOL! Now I know you hate Hilary Clinton but this does not help Obama at all!

Originally Posted by Curator

I find it very interesting that Obama actually won more support than Clinton from voters who made up their minds in the last three days, in the last week, and in the last month, than Clinton did.

Average these together and Obama won 44% to 36%.

Clinton won huge support from absentee voting 50% for Clinton to Obama's 31%.

Absentee ballots were sent in back in December and I wonder if more than a few would rather have their ballot back to make a change one way or the other.

Seems to me that Obama was definitely surging in Florida.

Originally Posted by Curator

I find it very interesting that Obama actually won more support than Clinton from voters who made up their minds in the last three days, in the last week, and in the last month, than Clinton did.

Average these together and Obama won 44% to 36%.

Clinton won huge support from absentee voting 50% for Clinton to Obama's 31%.

Absentee ballots were sent in back in December and I wonder if more than a few would rather have their ballot back to make a change one way or the other.

Seems to me that Obama was definitely surging in Florida.

Originally Posted by jdanton

AS for Obama: from RTE news:

Barack Obama said Mrs Clinton's Florida vote totals were meaningless since no candidate had been allowed to stump in the southeastern state.

What does that say to the Florida voters who went to the polls?

Originally Posted by HarperLee

From "Hillary's Florida Flip", The Nation, 01/28/08

Hillary Clinton has decided to rewrite the rules of the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Like other candidates, she pledged not to campaign in Florida after the state jumped ahead on the schedule of caucuses and primaries set by the Democratic National Committee. She had to make that pledge if she hoped to compete in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, as Iowa and New Hampshire zealously guard their starting status on the political calendar.

But Iowa and New Hampshire are history and, after a landslide loss in South Carolina on Saturday, Clinton needs a win.

So she has begun appearing in Florida in anticipation of Tuesday's Democratic primary there.

Clinton's move insults not just the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire who trusted her pledge but also the voters of all the states that respected the DNC's outline for the nominating process. Effectively, she is saying to Democrats in states that will participate in February 5th's "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses and in the two dozen states that have scheduled later votes: You may follow the rules if you please, but I write the rules as I please.

That's the raw political reality of Clinton's move, even if she is spinning it as an embrace of participatory democracy.

Link to entire Nation article:

Hillary's Florida Flip