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Ignoring "The Problem" | 361 comments (361 topical)
A threshold issue (5.00 / 11) (#67)
by litigatormom on Wed May 07, 2008 at 02:01:37 PM EST
How could I forget? {{slaps head}} Obama has to stop screwing around with the disenfranchisement of MI and FLA, and stop trying to take advantage of it.

Last night he proclaimed he was within 200 delegates of clinching the nomination.  That is, he is within 200 delegates of the so-called "magic number" of 2025.

But that number is not magic. That number, 2025, is only a majority of the delegates if you assume that no delegates are seated from FLA and MI.  None. Not one. Obama has to get off his arse and agree to seat the FLA and MI delegations according to the primary results (with the uncommitted votes in MI going to a bona fide uncommitted slate), or at the very least, he has to agree that he needs 2209 votes to clinch the nomination.  What he cannot do is use the exclusion of MI and FLA to his advantage by lowering the number of delegates he needs to be nominated.

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Ignoring "The Problem" | 361 comments (361 topical)

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