Friday, May 16, 2008

Florida, Michigan, Superdelegates

Is this right? Is Clinton only likely to pick up about thirty delegates total from Florida and Michigan? This is supposed to be the magic salve that catapaults Mrs. Clinton to the White House?

It seems to me that the best way of punishing those responsible for this mess is to restore the pledged delegates according to how the article proposes--69-59 in Michigan, and halving the Florida delegation--while stripping both states of superdelegates. Those superdelegates would be the people responsible for causing the mess to begin with, so targeting them in particular seems fair.

In any event, I highly doubt that the committee would just go in for the Clinton position. Obama's the nominee, after all, and I doubt they'll embarrass him. Give Clinton the 30 so that she can save face and drop out, I say.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.