Why on earth would you believe anything that Vladimir Putin says? The man is as much of a snake as Dick Cheney.

Posted at August 28, 2008 12:50 PM in response to McCain POW-POW-POWs In Response To Economy Question

Ugh. I'm an Obama supporter and even I can see that Shrubbit's questions are lame.

Posted at August 20, 2008 1:17 PM in response to Poll: McCain Takes National Lead; Even Besting Obama On The Economy

THIS

Posted at August 5, 2008 4:59 PM in response to Poll: Obama's Core Groups Launch Him To Six-Point Lead Over McCain

McCain has a pet Nazi!

Posted at June 18, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Rudy Emerges As McCain's Front Man On Terror, Bashes Obama As "Defensive"

If your point is that there'll be a lot of hard work between now and November, then you're absolutely right.

Posted at June 3, 2008 4:43 PM in response to AP: Obama Has Clinched The Nomination

Popular vote, schmopular vote. There's a reason that the Founding Fathers put so many bulwarks against democratic expression in the Constitution--they saw popular passion as incompatible with the considered deliberation that's necessary for effective governance.

The way to change the process is for the DNC to assign percentages to various blocks of time before the convention, and then apply those percentages to the delegate counts that come out of the various primaries and caucuses. For example, if you hold your primary before Feb 1st you get 0% of your delegates. Feb 1st-Feb 14th might get you 20% of your delegates, 15th-29th gets you 40%, and so forth, with a max percentage of 120% after three months. (The percentages and schedule are completely off the top of my head). Maybe you have an extra-wide window at 100%.

Each state can then decide how influential it wants to be at the convention vs. how influential it wants to be in the campaign.

Posted at May 27, 2008 11:56 AM in response to A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Hillary Clinton appeared in Sarasota on Jan 27th at a fundraiser:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080128/NEWS/801280404

Posted at May 21, 2008 11:31 PM in response to Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention!

The NH Secretary of State did not change the date of the 2008 primary until the MI Supreme Court ruled that the law setting the state's date to Jan 15th was constitutional. That was on 21 Nov 2007:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21920411/

NH, IA, and SC received waivers for their revised dates from the DNC on 1 Dec 2007, the same day that MI and FL were stripped of their delegates (as those states had been warned would happen):

http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5128 (quoting an article from the 2 Dec Manchester Union-Leader)

In no way did the First Four states violate DNC rules.

Posted at May 21, 2008 11:15 PM in response to Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention!

Under Rule 11.A., five states were in violation of the Democratic National Committee's Delegate Selection Rules, and as such, all five states should have been punished under Rule 20.C.1.a.

Rule 20.C.5 stipulates that the DNC may take further action against any state party which is found to be in violation of the rules:

"Nothing in the preceding subsections of this rule shall be construed to prevent the
DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee from imposing additional sanctions,
including, without limitation, those specified in subsection (6) of this section C.,
against a state party and against the delegation from the state which is subject to
the provisions of any of subsections (1) through (3) of this section C., including,
without limitation, establishing a committee to propose and implement a process
which will result in the selection of a delegation from the affected state which
shall (i) be broadly representative, (ii) reflect the state’s division of presidential
preference and uncommitted status and (iii) involve as broad participation as is
practicable under the circumstances."

Full rules available at http://tinyurl.com/39wg3s.

Posted at May 12, 2008 10:07 AM in response to McAuliffe Says Clinton Would Accept 50% of FL and MI