Campaign 2008: Interactive Primary Map

How can your delegate map above reflect that Hillary Clinton won both Michigan and Florida? According to the rules, they do not count. I see that the total number of delagates is listed as "0", but you should also reflect on the map that there was no winner. Hillary "won" because she broke the rules -- she campained in those states. I think you should be fair and list it correctly and not give credit where credit is certainly not due.

How can your delegate map above reflect that Hillary Clinton won both Michigan and Florida? According to the rules, they do not count. I see that the total number of delagates is listed as "0", but you should also reflect on the map that there was no winner. Hillary won because she broke the rules -- she campained in those states. I think you should be fair and list it correctly.

MYTH: For Hillary to win, super delegates must "overturn the will of the people."

FACT: The race is virtually tied, the "will of the people" is split, and both candidates need super delegates to win.

The Obama campaign and Sen. Obama's surrogates have engaged in a sustained public relations effort to convince people that the election is over and that if super delegates perform their established role of choosing a candidate who they believe will make the best nominee and president, they are somehow "overturning the will of the people." They have the audacity to make this argument while quietly and systematically courting those very same super delegates. They are courting them because they know that Sen. Obama needs super delegates to win. The Obama spin is being parroted daily by pundits, but it is patently false. The race is virtually tied; the "will of the people" is split. By virtually every measure, Hillary and Sen. Obama are neck and neck -- separated by less than 130 of the more than 3,100 delegates committed thus far and less than 1% of the 27 million+ votes cast, including Florida and Michigan. Less than 1%.

An incremental advantage for one candidate or the other is hardly a reason for super delegates to change the rules mid-game. Despite the Obama campaign's aggressive spin and pressure, the RULES require super delegates to exercise their best independent judgment, and that is what they will do. Even Sen. Obama's top strategist agrees they should. If not, then why don't prominent Obama endorsers like Senators Kerry (MA) and Kennedy (MA), and Governors Patrick (MA), Napolitano (AZ) and Richardson (NM) follow the will of their constituents and switch their support to Hillary? After all, she won their states. And if this is truly about the "will of the people," then Sen. Obama's short-sighted tactic to run out the clock on a revote in Florida and Michigan accomplishes exactly two things: it disenfranchises Florida and Michigan's voters; and it hurts Democrats in a general election. Apparently, for the Obama campaign, the "will of the people" is just words.

People need to remember that primary elections are not federal elections, they are party elections. The parties set the rules not the federal government. The rules need not be fair nor must the seem democratic. Caucuses certainly aren't democratic in nature.

If superdelagates are part of the rules why are you Democratics (superdelegates) so squeamish about supporting the candidate most likely to win a national election?

Obama step aside and let Hillary do the job.

Superdelegates grow up and do the job your party has you there to do. Cast you votes for the strongest candidate against MCCain or we'll all see at least another 4 years of a Republican administration.

To the women of Pannsylvaia You want a women for president but it should not be Hillary for one thing she is not strong enought for are nem and womem in the miltary.And what happend when her and Bill were in the White Houses all the lies the bombing of the USS Cole. You needed to Read the books on her that are out .Hell to pay Hillary'-Clinton By Edward Klien.and the truth about hillary by Barbara Olson. Please Thank about what has happend when they were in the White Houses before remenber all of it.WE are to white women that have family in thne miltary.We want then to come home safe and to be there for the others men and women to so they can come home safe and Hillary can not do it.

I WANT TO FIX HILLARY CLINTON FOR STAYING WITH BILL WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE DIVORCED HIM OVER:
1. HIS ANTIMASTURBATION
2. HIS CHEATING ADULTERY
ALSO IM AGAINST HER NOT LISTENING TO ME ABOUT VOTING AGAINST THE ANTI POKER BILL (PHONE CALLS, LETTERS) AND RECEIVING FUNDING FROM HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WHEN THEY ARE ALREADY OVERCHARGING AND AGE DISCRIMINATING. I ALSO BELIEVE LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN THAT BILL CLINTON SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED AFTER ILLEGALLY CHEATING ON HIS WIFE.

Why are we as a party attacking each other? We keep tearing each other down doing so much damage to ourselves within our own party as the republican just sweep on through and steal the presidency. If Hilary gets the nomination are not going to vote for her because she beat Obama, If Obama wins are you not going to vote for him because he beat out Hilary? A democrat is a democrat. Get it together people. I'm all for some healthy competition but what the hell are we doing???? McCain will win simply because we are acting like 5 year olds.

When it comes down to it is all this fighting within the democratic party necessary? We should be working together not tearing each other down...this is truly ridiculous. All this fighting is just what the GOP wants so that the democratic party can be blindsided while McCain walks right to the finish line.

Rules Hillary lives by......

ALINSKY's RULES FOR RADICALS
"Personalize it"
Saul Alinsky's rules of power tactics, excerpted from his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals"

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2. Never go outside the experience of your people.

3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8. Keep the pressure on.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

The gave Hillary Michigan and Fl;orida but it still doesnt show that she won New Mexico.........What is wrong with everyone??? Obama cant run this country he is a two-faced liar and it has been proven in the last few weeks, open your eyes and ears before it's too late. All of you that vote for Obama are going to be sorry you voted for him just like you are sorry you voted for Bush. VOTE HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!

First of all I strongly object to the election map showing both Michigan and Florida as going for Clinton. Those two primaries did not count as agreed by bot candidates back in October 2007.
Secondly, I do not unbderstand why all the arttention on Pennsylvania with its 188 delegates and expected win by Hillary Clinton. Two weeks following Pennsylvania, both Indiana and North Carolina vote with a combined 219 delegates and Obama is expected to win.
It is time for the Clintons to conceed and the party to rally around Barack Obama for President.

MICHIGAN: Only 20% of the Democratic voters voted in our so-called Primary. Just a speculation, but being a seventh generation in Monroe, Michigan I might have an insight to what Michigan is looking for in a President, and I can tell you that it is NOT Hillary.

If you tally the total Democratic votes and compare them to the total Republican votes???Michigan is now apparently a Republican state by 2 to 1. I guess if Hillary wants to take credit for winning Michigan, she can also take the credit for it turning RED.

MICHIGAN

Only 20% of the Democratic voters voted in our so-called Primary. Just a speculation, but being a seventh generation in Monroe, Michigan I might have an insight to what Michigan is looking for in a President, and I can tell you it is NOT Hillary.

If you tally the total Democratic votes and compare them to the total Republican votes???Michigan is now apparently a Republican state by 2 to 1. I guess if Hillary wants to take credit for winning Michigan, she can also take the credit for it turning RED.

The campaign is starting to be ugly and my wife has said that if they somehow give nomination to Clinton she just won't vote. I think she should still vote just to make sure democrats take the white house. She thinks that it is just turned into petty politics on Clinton's part and not tough as it is characterized in the media.
Its like throwing stuff on the wall hoping some sticks and using fear. To insinuate that Obama couldn't lead or make decisions in a crisis is absurd. If people would look beneath the surface this would be a simple matter of judging each person. She insinuates that she has vast experience in national security which is also absurd.