Super Tuesday Thread

[Chi City 81]

Zeke, just ignore him, lest he call you Swifty.

 

[dixiehack]

Ron Paul works just as hard as those varsity politicians. How's he going to get a scholarship unless you write an article about him?

 

[zeke12]

Ron Paul works just as hard as those varsity politicians. How's he going to get a scholarship unless you write an article about him?

Now THAT was funny.

 

[suburbia]

I was talking with some people at dinner tonight and they suggested that if Clinton and Obama don't win a majority of the delegates and it goes to the convention still undecided, the Dems might call on Al Gore rather than risk having half of their base (a real risk if Obama loses) stay home on Election Day rather than vote for the nominee.

Yes, Gore the Bore, the guy who so horrendously botched the 2000 election (if he hadn't, it never would have come down to Florida), riding to the rescue.

What do you think of this? Is it ridiculous? Or is there some merit to it?

 

[Jones]

THIS photo concerns me.

One of these things is not like the others?

Sen. Joe may be Obama's main Senate mentor. I kid you not.

I'm three pages late, but just for the SportsJournalists.com historic record, Obama was one of McCain's and Kennedy's principal Senate allies on their illegal immigration bill. The day it reached cloture or whatever it is, McCain, Kennedy, Obama, Martinez, Specter, and Graham stood together on a stage and juggled each other's genitals.

 

[Point of Order]

I was talking with some people at dinner tonight and they suggested that if Clinton and Obama don't win a majority of the delegates and it goes to the convention still undecided, the Dems might call on Al Gore rather than risk having half of their base (a real risk if Obama loses) stay home on Election Day rather than vote for the nominee.

Yes, Gore the Bore, the guy who so horrendously botched the 2000 election (if he hadn't, it never would have come down to Florida), riding to the rescue.

What do you think of this? Is it ridiculous? Or is there some merit to it?

It's certainly possible in a theoretical sense. If there is a brokered convention a non-candidate could come out of it with the nomination. Such has been surmised on the GOP side for months. Realistically, I think the chances of such a thing happening for Gore would be about 1 in 1,000,000, but it's good dinnertime discussion. Dems could do a lot worse than Gore.

 

[Lugnuts]

What do you think of this? Is it ridiculous? Or is there some merit to it?

Ed O'Neill almost pulled it off.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I think St. John still has some fence-mending to do with Fox and the wingnut "base."

 

[Football_Bat]

The only way there can be a brokered convention is if the Clinton-Obama margin is so close that Edwards' meager delegate count denies either a majority. Probably before it gets to the convention, Edwards takes the BBD and releases his delegates, and that is that.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Is it just me, or did Fox outsource the graphics work to India? They ALWAYS have screw ups there.

At what point is it fair to impeach the AG?

At what point will our Democratic heroes do anything that suggests spine?

And does the party realize that putting HRC at the top of the ticket is a surefire path to voter turn/tune out?

 

[STLIrish]

And does the party realize that putting HRC at the top of the ticket is a surefire path to voter turn/tune out?

You've got to think they're starting to, especially against McCain.

 

[Point of Order]

The only way there can be a brokered convention is if the Clinton-Obama margin is so close that Edwards' meager delegate count denies either a majority. Probably before it gets to the convention, Edwards takes the BBD and releases his delegates, and that is that.

Superdelegates can change their mind at any moment. They could vote for Al Gore (or George H.W. Bush for that matter) at any moment if they so chose. Superdelegates make up 20% of all the delegates in play. Therefore, if no candidate has an overwhelming majority of pledge delegates, the superdelegates could theoretically throw a wrench into the whole thing.

 

[Football_Bat]

The only way there can be a brokered convention is if the Clinton-Obama margin is so close that Edwards' meager delegate count denies either a majority. Probably before it gets to the convention, Edwards takes the BBD and releases his delegates, and that is that.

Superdelegates can change their mind at any moment. They could vote for Al Gore (or George H.W. Bush for that matter) at any moment if they so chose. Superdelegates make up 20% of all the delegates in play. Therefore, if no candidate has an overwhelming majority of pledge delegates, the superdelegates could theoretically throw a wrench into the whole thing.

That is true, but I would think a vast majority of superdelegates by convention time would have declared their allegiances, thus factoring this uncertainty out of the equation.

 

[Lugnuts]

Jack Cafferty doesn't think the Al Gore scenario is so far-fetched, and apparently neither does Mr. Lockbox himself.

Gore insists he won’t run despite a movement called “draft-Gore-dot-com” that’s calling on him to “transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and to the world.” As recently as last month, the former vice president said he has “no plans to be a candidate.” But being a politician he added, “I see no reason to rule it out entirely.”

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/25/room-for-al-gore-in-the-race/

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

"***** about New Orleans, isn't it? Have a slice."
"Thank you, sir, may I have another?"

Yeah, Hillary's the one with electability trouble.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Interesting story from the CNN web site...

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1710667,00.html