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LOOKS LIKE PELOSI IS GOING TO STAND IN HILLARY'S WAY OF PERSUADING THOSE SUPER DELEGATES!
Pelosi's Delegate Stance Boosts Obama
March 14, 2008 6:08 PM
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Friday that it would be "harmful" to Democrats if superdelegates were to give the party's presidential nomination to a candidate who is trailing in the delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses.
"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections," said Pelosi, "it would be harmful to the Democratic Party."
Although Pelosi offered her assessment without directly referencing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., her comments lend considerable support to the Illinois Democrat.
Obama leads Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in pledged delegates: 1,396 to 1,241. Because of the proportional system used by the Democratic Party to allocate delegates, Obama is widely expected to remain in front of Clinton in pledged delegates at the conclusion of the primary season.
Political prognosticators give Clinton more of a chance of catching, or even surpassing, Obama in the national popular vote but Pelosi argued that superdelegates should follow the pledged-delegate, not the popular-vote, leader.
"But what if one candidate has won the popular vote and the other candidate has won the delegates?" asked Stephanopoulos.
"But it's a delegate race," Pelosi replied. "The way the system works is that the delegates choose the nominee."
Pelosi's comments to Stephanopoulos, which were made in Washington, D.C., air Friday evening on ABC News' "World News with Charles Gibson."
The full interview with Pelosi airs Sunday morning on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
Hilary's got nothing to lose. In 2012 she'll be too old to run again. If she loses now, she's bascially Ted Kennedy in a dress (or pants suit).
Why wouldn't she go all out now?
Obama is 46. Four years to get his act together and get a believable answer on Rev. Wright that will play in middle America, and definitive plans for the economy and health care would be beneficial.
Whoever is elected will probably only serve 4 years anyway due to the upcoming depression.
Hilary's got nothing to lose. In 2012 she'll be too old to run again. If she loses now, she's bascially Ted Kennedy in a dress (or pants suit).
Why wouldn't she go all out now?
Obama is 46. Four years to get his act together and get a believable answer on Rev. Wright that will play in middle America, and definitive plans for the economy and health care would be beneficial.
Whoever is elected will probably only serve 4 years anyway due to the upcoming depression.
If Hillary were to steal the nomination, though I wouldn't vote for McCain, my wishes would be for him to win. Several of those reasons you mentioned play into it and also I think it would be best for the Democratic party in the long run. I mean, can you imagine, the losses the Dems would suffer in the off year election of 2010 if Hillary was president? The party needs to be purged of the Clintons and the DLC once and for all.
The caususus doesn't really guage the popular vote. If there were a purely popular vote, Clinton may be the leader. Add to that, people within the party change their minds over time. Some lean towards one candidate and vote that way, but after they learn more about them, lean the other way.
I think the super delegates need to assess the situation their way and vote as they see fit.
I'm not quite sure how anybody figures Hillary to win the popular vote: If she is slated to win any more states, that would probably be just PA.
Besides. Mrs. Pelosi speaks for the DNC. That is surely the majority of the opinion of all super delegates. Obama has this thing lined up one way or the other.
If Mrs. pelosi publicized her views, she must not have any worries doing so.
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