Clinton expands Iowa delegate support at state convention
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Source: desmoines Register
Kathie Obradovich
A sea of hands went up Saturday when Iowa Democratic Party delegates were asked how many were participating in their first state convention.
The question on many of their minds, however, was how many of these new participants would still be raising their hands for the party nominee after the dust settles at the national convention in July.
There was some indication that Hillary Clinton’s status as the presumptive nominee was having an effect. While there was some behind-the-scenes grumbling, the open conflict of some county and district conventions over delegate counts was mostly absent from the state convention.
Out of 1,285 delegates to the convention, Clinton was originally allotted 704. But after all the delegates were seated and given the opportunity to realign, Clinton had 714 and Bernie Sanders had 571. Clinton will have 23 national delegates from Iowa and Sanders has 21, not including superdelegates.
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“Now’s the time,” he said, indicating that the nomination battle is essentially over...........
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As it should be--the Iowa Dem Party coming together to get Hillary into the Oval Office
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As a former delegate from 2012, i can tell you for a fact that anyone
who gets elected / selected as a state delegate has absolutely NO
say about anything. Their soul purpose is to select a few individuals
from their state to go to the national convention.
Everything else (like the platform) is decided behind closed doors
by the party elite weeks earlier.
State political conventions amount to nothing more than an
AMWAY convention !
