{"id":196990,"date":"2008-03-10T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/10\/democrats-looking-at-mail-in-primaries-in-fl-and-mi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","slug":"democrats-looking-at-mail-in-primaries-in-fl-and-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/10\/democrats-looking-at-mail-in-primaries-in-fl-and-mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Looking at Mail in Primaries in FL and MI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a fan of mail in voting, so I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-na-dems10mar10,1,2981600.story\">like the idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess will be that it will be the Obama campaign that expresses problems, because people have already voted, and in the event of a revote like this, they stand to lose, a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, as shown by the results in Alabama on Super Tuesday, where a large win resulted in a nearly break even number in  delegates for him, the revotes in MI and FL would be stacked against him delegate-wise.<\/p>\n<p>Let me note that this is not evil.  This is politics, and Obama is likely to favor something like a caucus instead, because it benefits his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how political campaigns are supposed to work, to structure the process toward their candidate&#8217;s advantage, and absent stuff like Republican style vote suppression, it is neither good nor evil, it simply is, as Mount Everest is, and Alma Cogan <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">isn&#8217;t<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a fan of mail in voting, so I like the idea. My guess will be that it will be the Obama campaign that expresses problems, because people have already voted, and in the event of a revote like this, they stand to lose, a lot. Additionally, as shown by the results in &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-196990","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\/196990"}],"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=196990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}