See other (s)Elections Articles
Title: Dean: Democratic Dead-Heat 'Not A Good Scenario'
Source:
AFP
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph ... 232326.2nxp3bd8&show_article=1
Published: Feb 7, 2008
Author: AFP
Post Date: 2008-02-07 02:05:54 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Brokered Convention, Election 2008
Views: 240
Comments: 12
www.breitbart.com/article...6.2nxp3bd8&show_article=1 Democratic dead-heat 'not good news' says Dean Feb 6 06:23 PM US/Eastern Dean: Democratic Dead-Heat 'Not A Good Scenario' Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the party's White House nominating contests. "The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario," Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television. In state nominating contests so far, no clear winner has emerged among Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the party's nomination ahead of November's presidential vote to replace George W. Bush in the White House. "I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement," said Dean, who failed in his bid for the party's nomination in 2004. "Because I don't think we can afford to have a brokered convention -- that would not be good news for either party." A brokered convention has not been seen in decades, and harkens back to an era of shady political deal-making when powerbrokers and cash kings -- instead of regular voters -- chose one candidate over another at a raucous, smoke-filled convention hall. The comments by Dean highlighted the rising tensions among Democrats as rivals Obama and Clinton fight bitterly for delegate votes ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August, at which a nominee is officially selected. For more than 50 years, each party has selected delegates who favor one nominee over another by a significant margin well ahead of the convention, which exists mainly for ceremonial and celebratory purposes. The last conventions that required more than one ballot to designate nominees were in 1948 for the Republicans and 1952 for the Democrats. Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: All (#0)
"For more than 50 years, each party has selected delegates who favor one nominee over another by a significant margin well ahead of the convention, which exists mainly for ceremonial and celebratory purposes. The last conventions that required more than one ballot to designate nominees were in 1948 for the Republicans and 1952 for the Democrats."
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5018#comment-63251 primary vs caucus By lifenliberty | February 6, 2008 There is a trend going on. How is it that in every primary where Diebold machines are used and the MSM discloses results (hours later in the case of Alaska), Ron Paul amazingly gets 3% to 5% of the vote, but in caucuses where voters actually look at each other and the votes can’t be manipulated, like in Montana, Minnesota, Alaska and Colorado, Ron Paul gets 8% to 25%? Even Huckabee’s primary numbers differed greatly from Mass to Georgia, swinging from 4% to 34%. How is it that Ron Paul’s numbers are so flat in ALL states except caucus states? This needs to be investigated. It is blatant.
RP's last hope is to run as in INDEPENDENT. In a three way general election, he could actually WIN that sucker since the sheople will divide their votes among the CFR fascists of the D and R parties. IF RP gets over 35%..in most states..he wins.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Yeah, right Howie. Why don't he just come right out and say that Hillary is going to get the nomination? Does Howie or anyone else think The Bitch will take a back seat or drop out? Howie's a funny guy. Not too funny.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Independents will have to stay home for that to happen. They will not vote FOR Hillary. They will be voting against her if they turn out. My guess is they will sit at home.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
In the next couple of weeks, there will be nine caucuses/primaries. The five primaries will be in jurisdictions that can be expected to go for Obama (VA, DC, MD, LA, WI), and Obama had been doing very well in caucuses. I am not at all sure Hillary's campaign can survive 9 losses in a row, on top of the bad news about her campaign's financial difficulties.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
He's right about it being a brokered convention. What he won't say is that it will be brokered for Hillary. Long before any votes are cast, the political parties know who their candidate of choice will be, or at least what set of candidates they want to run. The DNC was grooming their boy Clinton for the Presidency well before 1992, and they've been grooming Hillary for the same ever since Bill left office. Just like the RNC pulled every string they could to get another Bush into the White House in 2000.
Barack Obama Beating Hillary Clinton In Intrade Prediction Market
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised!
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Doesn't have anything to do with "political parties"...it is the power brokers, hell we don't even know their names, not all or many of them anyway...the parties are just lil puppets sent out to make us feel like we are represented.
#2. To: Original_Intent, FOH (#1)
#3. To: TwentyTwelve (#2)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#4. To: IndieTX, ___ (#3)
RP's last hope is to run as in INDEPENDENT. In a three way general election, he could actually WIN that sucker since the sheople will divide their votes among the CFR fascists of the D and R parties. IF RP gets over 35%..in most states..he wins.
#5. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
"I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement," said Dean,
#6. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#7. To: ghostdogtxn (#6)
#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
#9. To: Sodie Pop (#5)
#10. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#11. To: Sam Houston (#7)
#12. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#9)
Long before any votes are cast, the political parties know who their candidate of choice will be
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest