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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:37 PM
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CNN poll
Quick Vote
Which should be more important in choosing a party's nominee for president?
Delegate count 20% 10446
Popular vote 80% 42679

http://www.cnn.com/#cnnContainer
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:38 PM
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1. and if the third choice had been "CNN Poll" that would've won
Whoop-de-doo
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:38 PM
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2. You can't count the popular vote when there are caucuses
Unless you throw those states out. And unlike MI & FL - those states followed the rules.
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Labors of Hercules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:40 PM
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6. bingo.
You play by the rules of the game or you don't fucking play. :grr:
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ORDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 02:20 PM
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17. Obama's won (and will win) the pop. vote anyway, so this is moot.
Next thing they'll be putting up a poll asking if the most important criterion for V.P. is popular vote (I'm only half kidding).

Hillary as V.P. would be an absolute catastrophe for Dems in the GE.

:dem:
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:39 PM
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3. Bogus poll. The parties use different systems.
Republicans use "winner take all", which is close to popular vote.

Dems use proportional allotment, which is delegate count.


What's "more important" is whatever the rules say is important.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:39 PM
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4. Who cares? Obama won, Hillary lost end of story
Now it's on to the GE and beating McCain!
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:39 PM
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5. Who cares? Obama won, Hillary lost end of story
Now it's on to the GE and beating McCain!
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:41 PM
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7. WOW! If The Rest Of The Superdelegates Base Their Endorsement On A CNN Quickpoll She Has A Chance...
On Planet Hillary.
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GarbagemanLB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:42 PM
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8. This is ALMOST as scientific as that AOL poll another Hillary supporter posted!
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:42 PM
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9. And now is the time for someone to educate the masses
Edited on Mon May-12-08 01:43 PM by CakeGrrl
about why the "popular vote" cannot be truly and accurately measured in a Democratic primary. (Hint: They're called caucuses!)

If they don't like it and want someone to change the rules next time, have at it.

And it would also be a really good opportunity to explain why Florida and Michigan don't count...and to remind people that all of that was A-OK with Hillary Clinton when she thought she had this thing in the bag 4 months ago.
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AZ Criminal JD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:48 PM
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14. Educate the masses -- you vote doesn't count!
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:44 PM
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10. Don't change the rules in the middle of the game please
No matter how much it benefits your candidate.
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KansasVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:46 PM
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11. Stupid. Then tell the DNC to base it on Popular Vote and Obama runs a different campaign!
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AZ Criminal JD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:47 PM
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13. It would be a losing one and he knows it.
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:52 PM
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15. Caucuses. 'Nuff Said. Put an end to the ignorance!
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 01:47 PM
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12. My state already uses the popular vote count.
We like it that way. Some states don't, and it's none of my fucking business,
because they don't give a shit how we do it in New York.
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gaiilonfong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 02:12 PM
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16. The Marshites are freeping the poll
Also the Jeralyn and Armando La Loca minions are too
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