Remember Puerto Rico
Oddly enough, Puerto Rico has more delegates than Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, and Idaho combined. Puerto Rico also has more delegates than 25 states plus the recently appointed delegates of the District of Columbia.
Does that make you feel warm and fuzzy about empowering the American demos?
While trying to figure out how the Democrats managed to agree to devalue the votes in Florida and Michigan based on a party decision beyond the voter’s control, I stumbled across a nice quote about rhetoric:
“Hope, my friends, is a powerful thing. I can attest to that better than many, for I have seen men’s hopes tested in hard and cruel ways that few will ever experience…. To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude.… I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the presidency with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me.”
-John McCain
For my own interest, I looked up the popular vote totals between Obama and Clinton. Based upon CNN’s website statistics the popular vote in the 2008 democratic primaries and caucuses stands as:
Hillary Clinton – 17,203,751 votes
Barrack Obama – 16,823,318 votes
Without doing math, or projecting how many voters will turn out in Montana and South Dakota , I’m confident Obama will not close this gap just like Clinton will not end with the most delegates. The question is: should the DNP select the minority candidate as their nominee?
Admitting my bias against Obama’s pathos, the DNP improperly punishing voters in Michigan and Florida, and John McCain looking even more agreeable while Hillary and Barrack stumble towards a nomination, I would like to see the super delegates side with Hillary at the Democratic national convention because Obama does not strike me as a leader.
