Democratic Presidential nomination race

[Uncle Mxy]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ntial_election

[WTFchris]

One thing I can't understand about Clinton...

If Obama is in the "speaches business" and she's in the "solutions business" as she puts it, then how come she won't reveal any of her actual solutions? Everything is a secret to her.

BTW, I saw that she started a website trying to get the Michigan and Florida delagates sat. Apparently it also asks for big changes in the delagate system as well.

[Big Swami]

Well, there are a lot of things to complain about in the Democratic Party delegate system, but the worst thing about it are the superdelegates. 2nd on my list are caucuses, which I think are outdated and unrealistic.

[b-diddy]

mxy's rasmussen poll suggests if hilary wins nom, mccain gets 84% of the rep vote in the general, vs. 75 % if its obama.

the difference is more than that 9%.

obama might only get a few more republicans voting for him, i guess 9 % or so. the difference would be in # of reps voting. you could expect drastically different turnouts from the right, depending on who the dem candidate is. and this is true even though conservatives are generally concidered more reliable voters.

[Uncle Mxy]

I disagree.

First off, a caucus justs means that the party funds it instead of the state, which I think is right. Tie that shit to primaries and you end up with bullshit ballot issues skewing the electorate, the party in power fucking with the election of the party not in power, etc.

How they organize the event is up to them. Some caucuses are one-man one-vote, easy-in, easy-out like New Mexico, like what Michigan had. Some are funny and weird, involving standing around with your neighbors for awhile. There's good and bad to that. Do you want a bunch of weakly affiliated people mailing it in, or do you want a smaller, more-active core? Maybe you pull a Texas and do both. I dunno. I think it depends on the states.

[Tahoe]

OT to the current topic y'all are on right now, but I'm a lil surprised that BO moved to the left in the last couple of speaches. He's claiming that territory first? Then a move(however slight) to the center for the general?

[Uncle Mxy]

Define "move to the left".

He's been tweaking his speech to where he's speaking, but hasn't really modified any of his fundamentals AFAICT.

[Timone]

What does AFAICT stand for?

[Tahoe]

You know what...I can't define it in specifics and I should post the articles I read if I can find them again. But the articles said he moved to the left. when I'm thinking more clearly I will expound. I shouldn't have posted that tonight.

[Tahoe]

What does AFAICT stand for?

No shit...Mxy's proll one of the smartest guys on the board and he doesn't me and my grade skool edumacation out much.