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12:02 p.m: Wexler is yelling. "We must find a way...to resolve this situation so that Florida may participate in this historic nominating process that will soon come to a close." ... Says the rules provide for a reduction in the NUMBER of pledged delegates... Wexler announces Obama campaign's support for Ausman petition... -- says it would award Clinton a net 19 delegates... "Sen. Obama should be commended for his willingness to offer this extraordinary concession.... "
11:58 :Wexler acknowledges that the election was held without a compliant delegate election plan; "both Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton pledged not to campaign in Florida and both agreed at the time that the primary would not count. This contest was not a normal primary election." Argues that Obama's decision to follow the rules. Wexler notes said that the RBC told the campaigns that the process was non-binding; addresses a "canard;" this is "completely untrue." Wexler downplays the Obama campaign's roll in pushing against a new Florida primary.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/rbc_meeting_live_wire_two.php
RBC member Alice Huffman asks why a full delegate seating would be tantamount to be disunity.
Wexler: "Respectfuly, I wish you had asked this question last year."
Huffman says she couldn't have envisioned the future
Wexler declares that no one supports voters rights more than he does.
Harold Ickes then asks Wexler why he thinks Obama has conceded anything.
Wexler: "What we are saying is that up to the number 19, which is the maximum amount allowable under the Ausman petition and your rules, we the Obama campaign ... have agreed to a concession..." He notes that "In the state of Ohio and the state of Pennsylvania together, Sen. Clinton won a total of 19 delegates.." (He means NET delegates)...
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/rbc_meeting_live_wire_3_clinto.php
As the DNC prepares to decide the fates of the Florida and Michigan delegations...it turns out that while the Florida primary turnout was high relative to past primaries within the state, the relative Democratic turnout vs. the Republican primary lagged way behind relative party turnout in other primaries and caucuses across the country, where the voting counted from the start. And in Michigan in particular, the voting level there was simply abysmal. This suggests the possibility that far more Democratic voters would have come out in both states if they'd expected the contests to count, meaning that it's hard to argue that the primaries that actually took place really reflected the will of the people...Democratic primaries and caucuses have had proportionately much higher turnout than Republican contests...In a year when Democratic primaries had disproportionately high turnout compared to the GOP, it tells us something if a particular state's Dem contest was disproportionately low...two particular states were behind the Kerry baseline by a serious margin: Florida, where relative Democratic turnout was a few points behind Kerry's vote percentage -- and Michigan, where relative Dem turnout lagged behind Kerry's vote by a whopping 11 points.

It makes sense that Michigan would suffer more from this problem, as Barack Obama and John Edwards had both taken their names off the ballot in recognition that the state wouldn't count, while Clinton kept her name in the race. As a result, many Obama and Edwards supporters would have failed to show up just to vote "Uncommitted" in a race that they were told wouldn't matter under the rules, and even some Clinton supporters wouldn't have viewed it as worth the time and effort.

Indeed, the Michigan turnout wasn't even halfway decent by the standards of state-level Michigan primaries. The 2002 primary for governor saw over 400,000 more people turn out than this year's presidential primary, and the second and third-place finishers had almost as many votes combined as this year's presidential race had in total...if these two states had held recognized contests with turnout in line with the best-fit curve for the other states, it seems likely that many more voters would have turned out -- possibly as many as one million in Florida, and over half a million in Michigan -- and we simply can't know how those people would have voted. These simple facts render both contests, especially Michigan, seriously dubious as actual measurements of the will of each state's electorate.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/primaries.php

12:02 p.m: Wexler is yelling. "We must find a way...to resolve this situation so that Florida may participate in this historic nominating process that will soon come to a close." ... Says the rules provide for a reduction in the NUMBER of pledged delegates... Wexler announces Obama campaign's support for Ausman petition... -- says it would award Clinton a net 19 delegates... "Sen. Obama should be commended for his willingness to offer this extraordinary concession.... "
11:58 :Wexler acknowledges that the election was held without a compliant delegate election plan; "both Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton pledged not to campaign in Florida and both agreed at the time that the primary would not count. This contest was not a normal primary election." Argues that Obama's decision to follow the rules. Wexler notes said that the RBC told the campaigns that the process was non-binding; addresses a "canard;" this is "completely untrue." Wexler downplays the Obama campaign's roll in pushing against a new Florida primary.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/rbc_meeting_live_wire_two.php
RBC member Alice Huffman asks why a full delegate seating would be tantamount to be disunity.
Wexler: "Respectfuly, I wish you had asked this question last year."
Huffman says she couldn't have envisioned the future
Wexler declares that no one supports voters rights more than he does.
Harold Ickes then asks Wexler why he thinks Obama has conceded anything.
Wexler: "What we are saying is that up to the number 19, which is the maximum amount allowable under the Ausman petition and your rules, we the Obama campaign ... have agreed to a concession..." He notes that "In the state of Ohio and the state of Pennsylvania together, Sen. Clinton won a total of 19 delegates.." (He means NET delegates)...
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/rbc_meeting_live_wire_3_clinto.php
As the DNC prepares to decide the fates of the Florida and Michigan delegations...it turns out that while the Florida primary turnout was high relative to past primaries within the state, the relative Democratic turnout vs. the Republican primary lagged way behind relative party turnout in other primaries and caucuses across the country, where the voting counted from the start. And in Michigan in particular, the voting level there was simply abysmal. This suggests the possibility that far more Democratic voters would have come out in both states if they'd expected the contests to count, meaning that it's hard to argue that the primaries that actually took place really reflected the will of the people...Democratic primaries and caucuses have had proportionately much higher turnout than Republican contests...In a year when Democratic primaries had disproportionately high turnout compared to the GOP, it tells us something if a particular state's Dem contest was disproportionately low...two particular states were behind the Kerry baseline by a serious margin: Florida, where relative Democratic turnout was a few points behind Kerry's vote percentage -- and Michigan, where relative Dem turnout lagged behind Kerry's vote by a whopping 11 points.

It makes sense that Michigan would suffer more from this problem, as Barack Obama and John Edwards had both taken their names off the ballot in recognition that the state wouldn't count, while Clinton kept her name in the race. As a result, many Obama and Edwards supporters would have failed to show up just to vote "Uncommitted" in a race that they were told wouldn't matter under the rules, and even some Clinton supporters wouldn't have viewed it as worth the time and effort.

Indeed, the Michigan turnout wasn't even halfway decent by the standards of state-level Michigan primaries. The 2002 primary for governor saw over 400,000 more people turn out than this year's presidential primary, and the second and third-place finishers had almost as many votes combined as this year's presidential race had in total...if these two states had held recognized contests with turnout in line with the best-fit curve for the other states, it seems likely that many more voters would have turned out -- possibly as many as one million in Florida, and over half a million in Michigan -- and we simply can't know how those people would have voted. These simple facts render both contests, especially Michigan, seriously dubious as actual measurements of the will of each state's electorate.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/primaries.php

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Barack Obama speaks in Des Moines, Iowa on the night of the Oregon and Kentucky Democratic Primaries.

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supporters dance for respect.

In the race for the primaries, who is the better candidate? Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. John McCain. Mike Huckabee.

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Produced by Nick Reddoch and Ted Houser
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Today on TOP STORY: As the Republican camp confirmed John McCain as its official candidate, the Democratic dash just got closer. After 12 straight losses, Hillary Clinton won both Ohio and Texas primaries, throwing predictions of a Barack Obama whitewash up in the air.

Why should the working class vote for someone who is an Elitist. An Elist that lives in a mansion, yet portrays himself as identifying with the working class.
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After sweeping the Virginia, Maryland, and DC Democratic primaries, Barack Obama spoke to an arena of cheering supporters in Madison, Wisconsin.

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One day before voters cast ballots in the Chesapeake primaries, ABC 7 News and POLITICO sat down with Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

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Virginia, Maryland, and DC hold primaries today, Hillary Clinton wants to fight, Barack Obama feels the love, and Mike Huckabee battles John McCain dragon.

Super Tuesday is the day that typically determines the presidential nomination winners in each party. A whopping 24 states are holding either a primary or a caucus-style election...

Obama Girl is Back... to Save the Senator on Super Tuesday!

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Samantha Power, Foreign Policy Advisor to Sen. Barack Obama at TRNS Radio Row, for the New Hampshire 2008 Primaries.

Actor Viggo Mortensen gives an interview at the 2008 TRNS Radio Row in Manchester, NH.

Ed Schultz interviews Congressman Dennis Kucinich at the 2008 TRNS Radio Row in Manchester, NH.

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Eugene Mirman covers the primary in New Hampshire.

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Barack Obama gives a speech following his narrow defeat in the New Hampshire Primaries on 1/8/08

Election Updater Sock le Puppet has the first returns from New Hampshire

The youth vote is an important focus for any campaign. Ground Hounds bumped into a political science club touring campaign headquarters all over Manchester.

Obama Girl returns to Ba-rock the vote and take on Hillary in Iowa... with some help from Harry Truman Girl.

A take from Gore Vidal on US primaries

Some people believe that had Robert F. Kennedy not been assassinated in early June 1968, he was sure to have made it to the White House. Some are convinced Senator Kennedy's victory in the California Democratic primary over Senator Eugene McCarthy guaranteed him his party's presidential nomination. However this is simply not so.

One week after Bobby Kennedy's May 28th defeat in the Oregon primary, his winning both the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4th was certainly a boon to his presidential campaign. In fact, winning the California contest was absolutely essential in keeping RFK's candidacy alive. But it could do no more than that. Such a victory alone could not ensure Kennedy the Democratic nomination in late August. Had he not been killed on the night of his California victory, RFK still would have had a very difficult uphill battle ahead of him that summer.

Even with his California primary triumph, Kennedy would not have been the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination had he lived. The front-runner still would have been Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who by early June had obtained many more delegate commitments than Kennedy had achieved while HHH worked outside the primary election process. Humphrey was the leading Democrat even though he was not on the California primary ballot and also not on the primary ballots of any of the other states. By June 4th, Humphrey had received so many delegate commitments, working outside the primary process, that the Vice President already seemed poised to capture the Democratic nomination 2 1/2 months later.

Not that it would have been completely impossible for Bobby Kennedy to have defeated Humphrey, but it certainly would have been very difficult as reporters, analysts and even RFK himself observed on more than one occasion during that fateful evening of June 4-5, 1968. As Robert Kennedy finally said that night immediately after delivering his victory statement in Los Angeles -- in his last recorded words uttered to radio reporter Andrew West only about a minute before he was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel -- he would have to "struggle for it" that summer if he was going to beat Humphrey at the party's August convention in Chicago.

So Senator Kennedy, despite scoring what was perhaps the greatest victory of his political career (beating Gene McCarthy in the California presidential primary), still was not guaranteed the nomination. Not only was he not a shoe-in for the nomination, he was not even his party's front-runner despite having won four out of five primaries, including California. We simply will never know whether RFK eventually would have managed to succeed in this arduous quest had he not been murdered moments after claiming victory in the California primary. He might have succeeded. He might not have. This will always be impossible to know for sure.

Television network news coverage of Bobby Kennedy's last primary victory makes this unmistakably clear. Now you can see and hear all of this for yourself, right here, in this video of selected clips from CBS, ABC and NBC live TV news coverage of the California primary on the night of RFK's assassination, June 4-5, 1968. The following are the newsmen featured in this video (in order of when we first hear each of them speak): CBS's Walter Cronkite, CBS's Martin Agronsky, ABC's Bill Lawrence, NBC's Frank McGee, CBS's Bill Plante, CBS's Roger Mudd, NBC's Sander Vanocur, CBS's Joseph Benti, ABC's Dan Hackel and KRKD/Mutual's Andrew West.

You're invited to take particular note here of RFK's own carefully-chosen words, uttered during his last television network interviews, as well as Kennedy's final recorded words, spoken to reporter Andy West in the Ambassador Hotel's Embassy Room ballroom, immediately following his victory speech and about one minute before he was shot in the hotel's kitchen pantry.

Also see our "What If Bobby Kennedy Had Lived? 2 of 2".

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Ron Paul interviewed on PBS NewsHour with Jim Leher 10/12/2007.

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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less

we use our power the greater it will be"
Thomas Jefferson

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Email your Congressman in support of the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter:
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Ron Paul interviewed on PBS NewsHour with Jim Leher 10/12/2007.


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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less

we use our power the greater it will be"
Thomas Jefferson

------Ron Paul Links-------

Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com

Ron Paul YouTube Channel:
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Ron Paul United States Congress Website:
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Political Positions of Ron paul:
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Ron Paul Library:
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Daily Paul:
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Congressman Ron Paul Archives
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Ron Paul campaign literature files are freely available at meetup sites

like the Houston Meetup.com group:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/24/files/

Speech: A Republic if You Can Keep it, January 31, 2000
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm

Primaries, Open and Closed (this is important):
Open and Closed (if closed, you need to register as a Republican to vote

in the Primary, as distasteful as it may be, or Ron Paul may not win the

Primary and will not be on the Presidential ballot). The largest

obstacle is the Republican Primary:
http://www.primarilypaul.com/ron-paul-in-the-primaries/

Who Would the World Elect:
http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/index.php

American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007
http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org///storage/afagenda/documents/AFA%20Act%20text.pdf

Email your Congressman in support of the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17371

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Ron Paul interviewed and answering callers on 10/12/2007 CSPAN Washington Journal.

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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be"
Thomas Jefferson

------Ron Paul Links-------

Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com

Ron Paul YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=RonPaul2008dotcom

Ron Paul United States Congress Website:
http://www.house.gov/paul

Political Positions of Ron paul:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul

Ron Paul Library:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org

Daily Paul:
http://www.dailypaul.com

Congressman Ron Paul Archives
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

Ron Paul campaign literature files are freely available at meetup sites like the Houston Meetup.com group:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/24/files/

Speech: A Republic if You Can Keep it, January 31, 2000
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm

Primaries, Open and Closed (this is important):
Open and Closed (if closed, you need to register as a Republican to vote in the Primary, as distasteful as it may be, or Ron Paul may not win the Primary and will not be on the Presidential ballot). The largest obstacle is the Republican Primary:
http://www.primarilypaul.com/ron-paul-in-the-primaries/

Who Would the World Elect:
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