{"id":196879,"date":"2008-03-17T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/obama-campaign-in-full-stonewall-mode-in-michigan-and-florida-says-no-vote\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:13:00","slug":"obama-campaign-in-full-stonewall-mode-in-michigan-and-florida-says-no-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/obama-campaign-in-full-stonewall-mode-in-michigan-and-florida-says-no-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign in Full Stonewall Mode in Michigan, and Florida Says No Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the only explain the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080317\/POLITICS01\/803170373\">various chicken egg objections of Obama supporters<\/a>, who won&#8217;t say if they support a concept of a revote unless they have finished legislation, but also say it&#8217;s not worth coming up with finished legislation unless they have sign on by both campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>There is only one real issue here, making sure that the already broke state of Michigan is not left holding the bag on the cost.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/18delegates.html?_r=1&amp;ref=us&amp;oref=slogin\">Florida Democratic party has said there will be no revote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, what happened in Florida was much more a Republican effort, the Dems tried to change the date, but rules are rules.<\/p>\n<p>No delegates may be a good thing, because it will lead more people to question the role of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.  It&#8217;s an accident of history that does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> need to be repeated, particularly in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The worst solution is Chris Dodd&#8217;s where the delegates are split 50\/50.  That says, &#8220;the voters be damned, but the political big wigs should get their junket to Denver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the super delegates, who were largely the folks who voted to set those dates at that time, should be excluded too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the only explain the various chicken egg objections of Obama supporters, who won&#8217;t say if they support a concept of a revote unless they have finished legislation, but also say it&#8217;s not worth coming up with finished legislation unless they have sign on by both campaigns. There is only one real issue here, making &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}