MESSAGE FOR SUPER-DELEGATES
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I would ask that our super-delegates read the following message and that anyone who has an email address for any of them forward this message directly to them. Please also link this to any website that you know of. Our message is urgent and it is clear. Please stop interfering with the democratic process of choosing our democratic nominee for president.
Please do not endorse either candidate for the sole purpose of ending this campaign by forcing one candidate out.
For the first time in decades every single vote from every single state will be meaningful (if counted). People are excited to be involved and we are registering record numbers of new voters. For too long our democratic candidate has been decided long before many, many voters even had a chance to choose.
If either candidate stops, that stops.
This has not been bad for our party. It has been great. It has brought out issues that would have been brought out by republicans anyways and allowed the voters to hear them now, not in the general. This has watered down the negative effect of those issues.
PLEASE - DO NOT ENDORSE EITHER CANDIDATE UNTIL EVERY SINGLE STATE/TERRITORY HAS VOTED. PLEASE, CALL ON THE DNC TO COUNT THE VOTES FROM MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA. IF THEY REFUSE PLEASE CONSIDER THEM IN YOUR THOUGHTS ANYWAYS WHEN YOU DECIDE HOW YOU WILL VOTE AT THE CONVENTION.
You should not be deciding on which candidate to support only as a means to end the primary. Neither candidate will reach 2025 or 2210 in state delegates and it will come down to your vote. Be patient. Let the system work for every single voter who chooses to cast a vote this year. Let us all be part of the election process. Then, and only then should you decide because that is the earliest that you will have all of the facts together.
I am from Michigan and I want my vote to count. I never ralized how much it meant to me until it was taken away
Please do not endorse either candidate for the sole purpose of ending this campaign by forcing one candidate out.
For the first time in decades every single vote from every single state will be meaningful (if counted). People are excited to be involved and we are registering record numbers of new voters. For too long our democratic candidate has been decided long before many, many voters even had a chance to choose.
If either candidate stops, that stops.
This has not been bad for our party. It has been great. It has brought out issues that would have been brought out by republicans anyways and allowed the voters to hear them now, not in the general. This has watered down the negative effect of those issues.
PLEASE - DO NOT ENDORSE EITHER CANDIDATE UNTIL EVERY SINGLE STATE/TERRITORY HAS VOTED. PLEASE, CALL ON THE DNC TO COUNT THE VOTES FROM MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA. IF THEY REFUSE PLEASE CONSIDER THEM IN YOUR THOUGHTS ANYWAYS WHEN YOU DECIDE HOW YOU WILL VOTE AT THE CONVENTION.
You should not be deciding on which candidate to support only as a means to end the primary. Neither candidate will reach 2025 or 2210 in state delegates and it will come down to your vote. Be patient. Let the system work for every single voter who chooses to cast a vote this year. Let us all be part of the election process. Then, and only then should you decide because that is the earliest that you will have all of the facts together.
I am from Michigan and I want my vote to count. I never ralized how much it meant to me until it was taken away
Obama is on the media hourly now speaking as if he is already the candidtae. Offering to debate the GOPee but not Clinton. What's he afraid of, more gaffs?
The stupid delegates are out for their own agenda just like the DNC. They want Clinton out so they can say they never had a chance to vote! No position, no retribution! Again the silent minority wins over the majority!
Have a change of heart. The Longer this race continues, the less likely our success in November. What you should be telling the Superdelegates is to come out today; all of them and make their endorsemets; either for Hillary or Obama so that we know who is the nominee and we wiil coalesce behind him/her.
How about you have a reality check? Stop dreaming and believing falsely that this nobody who has divided our party like this is suddenly going to unite the country. It is a fairytale! WAKE THE F*** UP!
I do not feel that I am a part of his dream and I certainly do not feel that he will unite this country. From what I have seen of him I think he will be a "your with me or your against me" person.
I do not believe Obama is a uniter. I do not believe he has the experience necessary to lead this country and I do not believe that now is the time for anyone to take the job of president as on-the-job training. He has already shown that when he speaks one on one he makes statements and later retracts them. This scares the heck out of me. I am not sure how willing some of these world leaders will be to listen to his "well, what I meant to say was". And I have not even touched on his long term relationships with several unsavory people.
Except for his questionable judgement on his associations and the possible character problem that will be associated with it - I would be comfortable with him as perhaps a vice-president where he could learn under the experienced tutulage of Hillary Clinton. Then, in 8 years he will continue as our democratic president fully aware of the realities of this world and experienced in a first hand manner. I am not joking in saying this - I believe it.
Hillary is above and beyond known to be the most experienced of the three - and guess what, I do count her time as First Lady because this is closer, first hand experience to a president than even a vice-president can have. She WAS there when the phone rang and saw firsthand how it was handled, what worked what did not and she has formed her own personal opinions on what she would do differently as president. Because she was president Clinton's wife does not mean that she agrees with every aspect of his presidency. But you cannot dispute that there was no one closer day in and day out to the action than Hillary Clinton.
If Obama is the candidate this is going to be one of the dirtiest, meanest, down in the mud campaigns that you have ever witnessed. They are not going to be nice.
Guess what. All those republican media pundits and news show hosts that have been ignoring clinton while singing Obama's praises will start to turn the tables now. You will soon see the news become a little more negative towards Obama while continuing to ignore Clinton. They want Obama because his life is an open book yet to be challenged and discredited. Hillary is pretty much a known entitity.
The best thing that can happen for this party is for both candidates to stay in and let the issues be aired NOW, before the republicans can jump on it. Believe me, there is nothing negative that Clinton can bring up that the republicans will not also bring up and trounce him on.
Her leaving now has only one effect. It gets the superdelegates off the hook for making a very difficult decision.
And last but not least, the superdelegates do not have to give their final choice until they are on the floor of the convention. They are free to change their minds any number of times up until that point - for that matter, so are the state delegates.
It is exciting that we FINALLY have an election where every single American registered voter will have a choice between candidates. Our current system normally is pretty much sewn up long before 1/2 the states even vote, making the turnouts unimportant. This has envigorated the party and resulted in millions of new democratic voters. I DO NOT KNOW HOW ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL OR CANDIDATE CAN ACTUALLY LOOK STRAIGHT FACED AT THE CITIZENS OF THE REMAINING STATES AND TELL THEM THEIR VOTE IS NOT IMPORTANT THIS YEAR, DO THE RIGHT THING AND RUN OUT A CANDIDATE THAT IS ALMOST SIDE BY SIDE IN VOTES. HOW CAN YOU EVEN BEGIN TO TELL SOMEONE WHEN THE RACE IS ALMOST A VIRTUAL TIE THAT THEY HAVE TO GET OUT. You might as well have told the DNC to just pick the candidate and forget the voice of the people.
Obama is a far better candidate because of his experience over the past several months. He has not been hurt by this. Anything that will hurt him in his quest will be there in the general whether Clinton is in or not.
But you know what, I just moved to Michigan in September. I am from NJ. We always voted in June and never had a say in the candidate. By the time our election was held the choice was made. There was nothing left to dispute. But you know what else. In those years we NEVER registered the number of voters we have registered this year, we never got so many different groups of people involved and we certainly never had so many young voters involved. And guess what, those young voters are not exclusively for Obama.
This is why Michigan and Florida pushed ahead. They wanted to have a say on the entire slate, before candidates dropped out. I can appreciate their heart but there actions are completely wrong. They did not have to push ahead to be first. They could have been a week later and avoided this catastrophe. Those officials who voted to do this are not being sanctioned - they are standing by watching there constituents take the punishment for their actions.
Why are they not standing up and telling the DNC that the rules should be changed to punish the people who violated the rules instead of innocent voters.
And the other fact is that if the super-delegates do what they are supposed to do and make their vote known at the convention, neither candidate will reach the number whether it is 2025 or 2210.
You cannot just stop a race this close with so many people anxious to vote. I seriously believe the super-delegates who are choosing to switch to Obama JUST TO END THE PRIMARY are very wrong and are effectively preventing people from voting as much as the DNC will not count Michigan and Florida.
This is the most exciting election that we have ever had. Let it run its course without interference and without ganging up on one candidate to get out for the good of the party. That is wrong. The DNC set the 6 month elections schedule, allowed the candidates to start campaigning almost a year early and set the date of the convention for August. Don't blame either candidate for that.