[Dems2008] Re: Clinton cannot make up her delegate deficit even if Michigan and Florida

Did anyone see Colbert's treatment of this topic. It was great!

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "tadviv" <tadviv@...> wrote:
>
> hold new contests, changing the rules is not sufficient. Rather,
> Clinton's main goal---which the media has bought hook, line and
> sinker since March 4 is to reinterpret the delegate selection
process.
>
> While both camps began the election season seeking to win the most
> delegates, Clinton realizes that it has become a mathematical and
> political impossibility for her to beat Obama by sticking to these
> rules. She now wants voters to believe that the candidate entitled
to
> the nomination is the person who has won popular vote victories in
> large states, even when---as in Texas---there were no delegates
> awarded for such a "victory."
>
> Clinton's "big state" analysis has been her greatest public
relations
> success. And a measure of this success is how rarely the
traditional
> media offers the obvious counterpoint to this "big state" claim:
> Obama did not waste resources in such big states as New York and
> California because his camp knew that the delegate selection rules
> would not reward such an investment.
>
> Recall that in both these "big states," a candidate had to get over
> 60% of the vote in a district to get an extra delegate. It made
> little economic or strategic sense to invest heavily in such
> contests, but Clinton is now trying to transform this squandering
of
> resources into a sign of her entitlement to the nomination.
>
> If winning the popular vote in "big states" really is a greater
sign
> of a candidate's strength, then the DNC's delegate selection rules
> should have rewarded this. But it did not. Had Obama foolishly
> squandered resources on such contests, and then tried to claim the
> nomination despite winning fewer delegates, the media would be
> denouncing him as a "bad sport" who refused to play by the rules.
>

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Clinton_s_Three_Pronged_Strategy_t
> o_Steal_the_Nomination_5450.html
>

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