The Four Options for the Democratic Nomination and the Best Plan Going Forward
There are essentially four options left for the Democratic nomination. They depend upon three factors: who wins Pennsylvania, who wins Indiana, and whether Florida or Michigan get revotes.
The possibilities
1.Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Indiana and Florida and Michigan get revotes.
Outcome: Clinton wins
2. Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Indiana and Florida and Michigan do NOT get revotes.
Outcome: Clinton will win after a fight
3. Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Obama wins Indiana.
Outcome: Obama will win after a fight
4. Obama wins Pennsylvania, Indiana.
Outcome: The race is over. Obama wins nomination
The best plan moving forward
There is one plan, which DNC chairman Dean has already proposed, which makes perfect sense no matter which way any vote goes: superdelegates must endorse by June 4. This will save time, money, and energy, and could save Democrats the election. The one thing I would add is this: new elections in Florida and Michigan are not necessary. They understood the rules when they voted to move their primaries forward. A revote there would only be costly and would hurt the party.
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Florida and Michigan are going to have to have to be resolved if the Democratic Party is going to reunite for the general. I'm starting to see a scenario where the Dems self destruct and we have another four years of Republican rule. I went into this primary season as a Clinton supporter. Now I just want it over before it's too late.
I went into this a Clinton supporter, and I’m going to come out of it a Clinton supporter. The way I look at it, if the Democratic Party has been hijacked by the immature, anti-free trade, anti-war left, then the Party should self destruct.
They stand on a platform of idealism, where the world should become a dream and everything is hunky-dory, instead of facing up to the reality of their situation. Well, we’ve got serious problems and we need serious people to solve them. No amount of inspirational speeches, patting ourselves on the back because we’ve demonstrated that the racism we once had is behind us, or hope, is going to solve them.
Barack has said he has better judgement than Hillary. I will go door to door to argue that he’s wrong. If voting for an authorization to go to war when more than half of the country supported it shows bad judgement, what does being the political patron of Tony Rezko, being part of the flock that an anti-American pastor, and an associate of a domestic terrorist demonstrate? Sound judgment - yeah right.
If my Party wants to walk off a cliff, they can do it on their own because I’m not joining them. This fight is good for us. It’s the epic struggle between the center of our Party and the extremistss.