Superdelegates Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Apparently the upcoming Superdelegate scandal isn’t enough of a problem, now there is going to be a controversy over pledged delegates. Pledged delegates are delegates allocated by the DNC and DNC people (also called delegates), the allocated delegates are meant to correspond with the way that people vote. Easy example if one state has 100 democratic delegates up for grabs and in the election Hillary Clinton gets 51% of the Vote and Barack Obama gets 49% of the vote, then Clinton comes away with 51 pledged delegates, and Obama 49. Though it doesn’t work exactly like that, hopefully you get the point.
Now, it is being said that Hillary Clinton will be actively pursuing democratic rival Barack Obama’s pledged delegates. Though that seems like it wouldn’t be possible, it is completely tolerable and within the rules of the DNC. Clinton’s representatives says that this is the alternative compromise that would allow the election not to be won because of Superdelegates. Isn’t the problem (fear) with Superdelegates pretty much the same problem with this? That someone can get the nomination that the majority of the people didn’t vote for, which show that the Democratic Party isn’t being very democratic once again.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign intends to lure pledged delegates from Barack Obama if she feels she needs them to win the nomination come convention time in August, The Politico reported Tuesday.
The strategy was confirmed to Politico by a “high-ranking Clinton official,” and represents the most recent tactic from the campaign to compensate for the New York senator’s shortfall in pledged delegates, which are awarded through the results of primaries and caucuses.
The campaign already has said it will win over a majority of “superdelegates” — the 795 party officials and insiders who attend the national convention uncommitted to either candidate.
But in going after Obama’s pledged delegates, Clinton would be asking them to go against their signed — but not mandatory — pledge to support the Illinois senator, Politico reported.
“All the rules will be going out the window,” a senior Clinton official told Politico.
Clinton’s campaign denied the report, issuing a statement Tuesday saying, “We have not, are not and will not pursue the pledged delegates of Barack Obama. It’s now time for the Obama campaign to be clear about their intentions.”
The campaign was reacting in part to comments from the Obama camp, which had already protested Clinton’s superdelegate strategy, urging the uncommitted power brokers to “ratify” the decision of pledged delegates (and vote for Obama).
On Tuesday the Obama campaign blasted the pledged delegate strategy reported in Politico.
“As it becomes increasingly clear that Senator Clinton may not be able to secure the nomination by winning the support of actual voters, the Clinton campaign has once again floated a strategy that would essentially say that the preference of Democratic voters is a mere obstacle to their win-at-all-costs strategy,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement, which continued: “… this is the latest example that it’s time to turn the page on this type of politics that could severely harm our party’s chances to win the general election.”
Source: FOX News
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