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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 11:53 AM
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Want Al Gore as President? Become an UNCOMMITED DELEGATE!
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Edited on Wed Sep-26-07 11:57 AM by helderheid
Why Are Uncommitted Delegates Important?

Without Al Gore as a Presidential candidate, we believe that the dynamic amongst the current field of Democratic Presidential candidates has created the possibility that no single candidate will arrive at the Democratic National Convention with enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. If that were to happen, a brokered convention would ensue with delegates freed from their original commitments and able to vote for any candidate who presents herself/himself and candidates and their surrogates working the convention floor to win the vote on subsequent ballots.

We believe that if the Draft Gore movement is able to elect a small number (50-100 out of over 4,000 - 1-2 delegates per state) of uncommitted delegates, who are committed to voting for Al Gore at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and the first ballot fails to produce a nominee, the Draft Gore delegation will be substantial enough to lead a Draft Gore effort from the floor of the convention and convert enough of the rest of the delegates to join us that Al Gore will emerge from this process as a consensus candidate.

We also believe that if the Draft Gore movement is able to elect a small number (50-100 out of over 4,000 - 1-2 delegates per state) of uncommitted delegates, who are committed to voting for Al Gore at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and the Draft Gore delegation is substantial enough to give one candidate enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot, the Draft Gore delegation would put Al Gore in a position to negotiate the terms by which it would help that candidate win the nomination.

For more information, here's a http://www.draftgorenj.com/file_download/1/2008DSP.pdf">PDF detailing the delegate selection plan: 2008 New Jersey Delegate Selection Plan

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http://www.draftgorenj.com/
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