Why Won’t Obama Let Michigan and Florida Re-vote?
25 March 2008 9:39 am by Taylor Marsh
I know this is getting ridiculous, but I just can’t believe Barack
Obama is going to stiff Michigan and Florida.
“Sen. Obama is turning the Audacity of Hope into the audacity of nope,’’
said Phil Singer, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, with a reference to
Obama’s campaign book in a conference call with reporters this morning. …
.. … “We could have avoided the entire Bush presidency if we had counted
votes in Florida,’’ Singer said. “The fact that Sen. Obama
is endangering and jeopardizing Democratic prospects’’ in two
states vital to winning in November is “unacceptable.’’
… .. "The Obama campaign is trying to convince everyone that this election
is over,” Ickes said. "I hope they don’t get their hands on the federal
budget, because they can’t count.”
The bottom line is that Obama is afraid to let Michigan and Florida vote for
fear Clinton will reveal the full breadth of Obama’s Wright catastrophe. He
simply can’t afford for it to be revealed what Wright will cost going forward
in states like Michigan and Florida, especially in the general election. He’s putting himself above counting the
votes. It’s not shocking, because he wants to win, but it is short-sided.
But will he get away with it?
Make no mistake about it, Clinton needs these two states, needs their popular vote totals. But the reason Clinton didn’t take her name off of the ballot in the beginning, as did Obama and other Dems, is that she knew how important Michigan could be in the general election. She was always thinking ahead.
But as bad as the Obama camp wants to declare this race over no one is at the magic number yet and until they are it won’t be. Again, he has the advantage. However, he’s still not home.
Frankly, it’s difficult to see how anyone gets there, especially if Clinton has a big string of wins coming up, which is what Obama is dreading.
Every single Democratic senator and congress person is a "superdelegate."
Howard Dean also is responsible for this mess. If they haven’t heard from you,
now is a good time to let them know that you believe Michigan and Florida’s votes need to be counted. Or are we really going to let Obama give John McCain this gift?
