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I have a bad feeling about this (none / 0) (#4)
by blogtopus on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:16:07 AM EST
Have there been previous dem primaries where one candidate's supporters were so thuggish and oblivious to the basic tenets of democracy?

I don't want to invoke Godwin's Law, but man this 'rise from nowhere to the most powerful person in the world, based on enticing rhetoric and raised on the shoulders of thugs' really makes me nervous.

Do these people really want a Uniter? Or just some guy who's cool?

Will the headline tomorrow read: (none / 0) (#6)
by oculus on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:18:05 AM EST
Clinton campaign tries to disenfranchise Texas voters?

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this will set the Obots into high gear (none / 0) (#11)
by thereyougo on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:50:45 AM EST
Hillary was calling for attorneys to Texas and oversee the delegate count.

Someone said she got 2000 complaints about those caucauses.

Bet Kos won't write about this. Will he say, get over it?

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TPM does it (none / 0) (#15)
by ding7777 on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 07:18:36 AM EST
by association

Elections are becoming for lawyers what tax season is for accountants.

The Clinton campaign is urging its lawyer supporters to head to Texas this weekend, with a goal of having at least one lawyer present to monitor each county and state Senate convention site.

On the GOP side, TPMmuckraker has learned, vote-suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky, formerly of the U.S. Justice Department, will be giving a talk next week to the L.A. chapter of the Federalist Society titled "Litigating Elections: the Campaign Process in 2008."



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It is somewhat comforting (none / 0) (#8)
by felizarte on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:29:30 AM EST
to know that these things are coming out now before it is absolutely too late.  I have a faith that Divine Providence will continue to shed grace on this great country and that the leader needed for these times will prevail. And I believe that that leader is Hillary Clinton.  It is significant to me that the first real problem Sen. Obama has had is the information about his pastor of twenty years and his utterances invoking God in some very hurtful statements.

Personally I am offended to hear a religious leader say, "God damn America!"  I am included in "the America" and he does not even know me.  So with millions of other Americans who are not remotely implicated in the things he has decried.

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Unfortunately (none / 0) (#10)
by felizarte on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:38:25 AM EST
The election laws and procedures are based mainly on the "honor system" of voters.  I have served as an election precinct inspector in several California elections and I can see that there are opportunities for fraud if there are enough people determined to perpetrate it.  In small neighborhoods where voters basically know one another, it is not easy to hide this kind of irregularity.  But I can see in larger cities with more voters per precinct that the system can be overwhelmed.

Thje experiences in Florida and Ohio should have highlighted this matter by now.  It will be a real tragedy if this democratic process is successfully subverted.

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Caucuses are the problem (none / 0) (#26)
by splashy on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 11:50:30 PM EST
No privacy, intimidation is too easy, and those that can't take the time are cut out.

Primaries that run for several days to a week, all day long, with privacy, are far more democratic to all.

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Texas and LBJ ring a bell (none / 0) (#16)
by ding7777 on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 07:21:43 AM EST
Bush and McCain in SC in 2000

 

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