ELECTABILITY: Why is Hillary Clinton going to win the state of Florida today?

Clinton will win Florida. There's all kinds of demographic information in those numbers for anybody who wants to take a realistic look at this race with the general election in mind.

Obama has had nothing but positive media coverage for weeks and Clinton has had negative coverage at the most hysterical level.

But be sure to ask yourself this, if you are a voter who is voting on electability at this point between these three nearly identical candidates: Why will Hillary win Florida?

retirees from NY and NJ.

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How many more ads has she run?

wash the taste on SC out of their mouths. /turn off snark mode

Seriously though, there was no active Democratic campaigning in Florida, Fl voters never really got a chance to see all the candidates out and about trying to sell them on their candidacy. Thus it stands to reason that the most recognizable name will have the biggest numbers.

Example: Rudy had a large lead in Fl, the operative term being "used to" that changed in a big way once the Repukes started to actually campaign in Florida.

So enjoy the meaningless victory Hillaryites because:

A. It won't be as big as you think.
B. It means exactly diddly/squat.

If there are people who take the time to vote in meaningless primaries but don;t know who Obama is how exactly could we describe them or even imagine them? Informed enough to know when primary day is and find their voting place but not informed enough to know of a guy who has been plastered across every newspaper and TV and magazine for a couple years at least? Concerned enough about politics to wait in line and vote on not only a primary election but a non-sanctioned primary of dubious import, but not concerned enough to know about the rockstar politician who has won two primaries already and is touted by many as a front runner?

Bit dubious surely. I understand nobody has campaigned (which was my ONLY point by the way), and I understand that the truly ignored candidates such as Gravel would then have no chance to get their name out there, but can you HONESTLY imagine someone who would make the effort to vote in a meaningless primary who simultaneously has never heard fo the most hot current political news story?

...because it's not a legitimate election.

The Democratic Party said the delegates won't count. All Florida Dems are operating
under this assumption. Therefore, many will stay home.

This is not a legitimate election. She won't "win" anything--even if she does garner
more votes.

The voting population represents those who decided, for whatever reason, to symbolically
cast their votes in an election that has been deemed null and void before it ever happened.

There was no campaign there...no competition. No candidates campaigning. There
was no contest, so there is nothing to be "won".

I say, let Florida have a real election. Slate it at the end. Get the Florida state
leaders to do a mea culpa, and work with the DNC to have a real election in Florida.
Then, Florida voters would not be disenfranchises and the state could have a real
election with a legitimate winner.

Believe it. No way will Michigan and Florida not be represented at the convention.

The deal is all ready sealed.

There was no campaign there. There was no legitimate election there,
because all of the Florida Dems presumed that there votes would not
count--and translate into delegates at the Convention.

It's all ready a done deal.

No legitimate election took place.

Not gonna happen.

it'll show where we stand against the GOP.......without the Indie voters

The deal was no campaigning or courting of support because of
a "fight" between the DNC & Florida dems** .... But to Hillary it is
all about winning and right now her team is putting lipstick
on that pig by saying "well we have to repect those who came
out to vote."

These actions say all I need to know about Hillary.

The ends justify the means.



** BTW I really do not understand what the fight is over .... help please.

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the Media are engineering a Coup to rid the Democratic Party
of the Clintons.

Since the Elites only talk to each other--tsk tsk--this riff
raff. As usually they have no concept of the feelings of
Average Americans. Perfect example is how the Elites have
made this into a Race election.

Joe and Jane Lunchpail know the Clintons understand them.
They did very well under a Clinton Presidency. They do not
care for the elites shoving their choice down their throats.

to say "name recongition, especially important for elderly with failing memories.

But that would be harsh and politically incorrect.

and going back on what the candidates agreed on. Naturally the people of Florida will reward that. Now if it had been a truly competitive contest with campaigining by all candidates (including Edwards) we don't know what would be the outcome.

know that in order to move the polls you have to have media, either paid or free. And that media has to be geared to Florida concerns and targeted geographically and demographically.The fact is that Hillary received huge favorable media out of NH and Barack has gotten his share after SC. Neither have had Florida targeted messages on the air. So the situation is pretty much what you would think it would be in a state where no election campaign has actually been run. The current polls and tonight's returns will tell you very little. This is a non event.

I just called my local campaign office and the coordinator told me that they had plenty of people walk in to volunteer since last week. It's what I kept saying all along, the results in SC don't matter in this part of the country. Furthermore, the more some try to bash Hillary, the more that they anger her base. After Teddy's endorsement, I and several people I know sent more money to Hillary's campaign. Ted Kennedy is NOT going to derail our candidate without us first putting up a hell of a fight!!!!!!!

However not much was heard about the support wit votes and funds, this was in his first election, don't knnow how his second one did with the Cubans.Edwards is myfavorite, but you ask about Hillary