Official 2008 Election thread

[Phoenix Dark]

Dean's 50 state plan makes much more sense than shooting for the big states and leaving everything else to god and Diebold. Obama has the right idea

[Human Snorenado]

Dean's 50 state plan makes much more sense than shooting for the big states and leaving everything else to god and Diebold. Obama has the right idea

Which would imply that Hillary Clinton has... what exactly?

[Bloodwake]

More like 48 (Michigan and Florida), but that's because he sorta wants delagates.

[Phoenix Dark]

Dean's 50 state plan makes much more sense than shooting for the big states and leaving everything else to god and Diebold. Obama has the right idea

Which would imply that Hillary Clinton has... what exactly?

The wrong idea. Mandark brought up an interesting Obama quote where he criticized the strategy of splitting the popular vote 47%-47% and then fighting over the remaining 6% in the Lands of the Undecideds (Florida, Ohio). That strategy will work for you, but certainly not enough to validate its use

[y2kev]

“I want to congratulate Sen. Obama on his recent victories and tell him to meet me in Texas. We’re ready,” she said, before brushing off questions about her apparent struggles by saying, “that’s what I always thought would happen. So we are very well positioned to compete in these big states and that’s what I intend to do. This is a long journey to the nomination. Some weeks one of us is up and the other is down, and then we reverse it . . . It’s a long and winding road.”



It's amazing how she's willing to totally shrug off the value of a dozen or so states, just like that. It's kind of pathetic to just keep saying that only big states like TX/OH/NY/CA matter. It's insulting to... every other state.

You don't think the electoral system is insulting to every other state?

Is the electoral system trying to get people to vote for it and present itself as the most electable candidate?

And the electoral college benefits the other states, not insults them.

Oh, I am not even talking about campaign strategy.

But I think the electoral system IS insulting...candidates will never campaign in states they feel they have "locked up" because of it and it definitely puts an emphasis on the same big states...PA/OH/NY/CA/TX/FL, etc.

I could do the math to check it out, but I wonder if the population of SD is really up-to-date proportional with its electoral vote count.

[Mandark]

Yeah, it's cool that Wynn got the boot.  No more free rides for skeezy dems.

Amen to that.  The robocalls were coming fast and furious the last couple days.  Environmental groups and SEIU were backing Edwards, and Wynn got a bunch of local politicians to call, all with some variant of "he always delivers when it's time to slice up the federal grant money."

He's basically an old school, ward heeler type.  Didn't get with the times, so the times got him.

[AdmiralViscen]

MEGATONN

Tom Scholz, of Boston fame, has asked Huckabee to stop using his song "More Than A Feeling" in support of a campaign "the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for."

"I'm an Obama supporter", said Scholz.

“By using my song, and my band’s name Boston, you have taken something of mine and used it to promote ideas to which I am opposed. In other words, I think I’ve been ripped off, dude!”

Fred Bramante, who was chairman of Huckabee's New Hampshire campaign, called the allegations ridiculous.

Scholz is not the only rocker to object to a candidate's use of his music. John Mellencamp, who endorsed John Edward's failed candidacy, asked Sen. John McCain to stop using his song “Our Country.”