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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 08:11 AM
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Hillary flips and flops to disenfranchise voters...
NHPR's Laura Knoy: "So, if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan? Why not just say, Hey Michigan, I'm off the ballot?"

Hillary Clinton: "Well, you know, It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything"


http://www.nhpr.org/node/13858


After elections where many stayed home because they were told that they weren't going to receive any delegates...


Clinton told Smith that she had promised not to campaign in either state, and had kept her word – but that she had never said she would not ask for the results of those contests to be made official, a request her campaign made public on the eve of Florida’s January vote.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/22/clinton-says-again-florida-and-michigan-votes-should-count/

IMO The real disenfranchising of FL an MI voters is having elections where people stay home because they were told that no electors would be awarded.(FL too...the high turnout related to ballot initiatives {further MI and FL are two of few states where Dem turnout was LOWER than Rep turnout})

Think of it like this. The GOP puts a "symbolic" ballot initiative banning the GBLT community... then when few show up and they get the result they want... "SURPRISE" they say... "you can't disenfranchise the voters" they say... "let's go round them up" they say... Obviously democracy doesn't work like that. See why now?

Side note: Threatening that FL and MI will not vote in the GE is a BS argument. FL and MI democrats really need to take a look at their state leadership. They are definitely the problem... hmmm... look at who they have endorsed... hmmm.. I am fed up with people like Bus.. umm Clinton who want to change the rules to meet their own ends.
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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 08:37 AM
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1. It amazes me how so many Hillary supporters...
ignore my Hillary quote everytime I post it. Then they repeat the same lies about how Hillary has wanted FL and MI to be able to break the rules from the begining. Hello... Hillary supporters... how do you explain this????
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 08:40 AM
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2. Just keep K&R and give the rest of DU a chance to wakeup. :)
:)
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 08:53 AM
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3. Hillary Rejects Mail In Ballots - Thinks Her Base Will be Left Out...
WTF?? Now what?? Her surrogate, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, just refuted the mail in system on behalf of Hillary because "poor people would be disenfranchised". Her supporters can't attend caucuses and now they can't mail in a ballot sent to them? But they can get out and go to the polls?

I honestly don't get it. Is there anything Hillary's base CAN do?
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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 12:01 PM
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4. The process is biased against Hillary unless
she wins of course.
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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 06:11 PM
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5. Hello... any Clintons supporters want to explain?? N/T
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