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Who Looks Foolish Now?

posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 10:46am on 06/02/2008 under
I think the big losers of last night were actually Michigan and Florida (which[livejournal.com profile] cerebralpaladin also pointed out. That is, back in the summer and fall when the primary election schedule was getting hashed out, everyone wanted to be one of the early primary states so they could make a difference. When Super Tuesday became enormous, Florida and Michigan chose to gamble party wrath and loss of delegates in exchange for being Part of the Early Momentum. Everyone assumed the election would be over by today.

Today, the chairperson of the Pennsylvania DNC has to be smirking, thinking about the six weeks between March 11th and April 22nd when none of the candidates will have anything to do but campaign there, and it's quite likely that the nomination won't be decided yet. Sometimes, it's good to be late to the party.
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posted by [identity profile] gee-tar.livejournal.com at 05:04pm on 06/02/2008
I was thinking that New Jersey was one fo the big losers. For years, we were the last primary in the nation, and after being tired of irrelevance, we decided to push it with everyone else. And guess what? We're still kind of irrelevant, and ironically, if we didn't do anything, we'd be more relevant.
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posted by [identity profile] emilymorgan.livejournal.com at 05:16pm on 06/02/2008
But NJ was so contested! Obama even had a rally at the Meadowlands on Monday.
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posted by [identity profile] gee-tar.livejournal.com at 05:29pm on 06/02/2008
Yeah, but it would have had more attention paid to it if it wasn't in direct competition with 21 other states at the same time.
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posted by [identity profile] emilymorgan.livejournal.com at 08:09pm on 06/02/2008
I'm glad it's now as opposed to the very end, but yeah, sometime in the middle would probably have been better. I might go canvass etc. in Pennsylvania now!
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posted by [identity profile] feir-fireb.livejournal.com at 05:30pm on 06/02/2008
They both made a huge difference in the Republican side, pretty much cementing the momentum of the two current front-runners. But then, the RNC only stripped half of their delegates and the Republican field was much more chaotic and susceptible to shakeups early on.

And don't be so sure about the Democrats' delegates, either. The Clintons have a lot of pull with the DNC. If she drops behind but not too far, it's not too farfetched to expect a push to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates at the convention in the interest of "every vote being counted".

But yeah, the fact that these primaries are actually going late and being contested in places other than IA, NH and SC is a rare and exciting event for everybody else.
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posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 06:12pm on 06/02/2008
Uuck, I hate that you are probably right about the Clintons and the DNC. Exactly why I can't bring myself to vote for her.

Also, the Republican situation is made very different by the winner-take-all system.
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posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 06/02/2008
Yay, I might matter! Although May 6 is still awfully far off.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:27pm on 06/02/2008
You might indeedy!
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