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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 12:55 PM
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Does the term "automatic delegates" remind anyone else of FAUX's "homicide bombing"?
It does to me, but I'm glad people are using it, it makes it so much easier to identify (and thus ignore) Hillbots.
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Aloha Spirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 12:56 PM
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1. Automatic delegate is the technical term for it, superdelegate is like slang.
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 12:59 PM
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4. I had heard the term superdelegate before this year, not "automatic delegate"
Nor have I ever heard it from anyone besides Hillary's campaign.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 06:47 PM
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13. The official term is simply "unpledged". n/t
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 12:56 PM
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2. Yep it does. Kinda slimey. nt
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 12:57 PM
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3. If you can't be nice, try acting nice. Enough with the juvenille name-calling. nt
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:01 PM
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5. Oh yeah, it reeks of Clear Skies.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:01 PM
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6. Whats srong with "homocide bombing"? Thats what it is.
Someone blowing themselves up in a crowd of people.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:02 PM
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7. They are 'automatic' in that they have been guaranteed a seat.
Edited on Sun May-18-08 01:04 PM by Yael
Pledged delegates are either selected by the party after the counts are in, or voted into the delegate role.

I know the HRC camp hijacked the term to make it sound like they were automatically 'hers' but the fact that they are named and guaranteed makes them automatic 'delegates'.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:03 PM
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8. Oh, the twisting of terms this season
..is indeed, one of the more entertaining aspects of this primary.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:05 PM
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9. How is superdelegate a better or more accurate term?
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 01:58 PM
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10. It's the term used for every election until now
Now Hillary decides she prefers another term and we all must start using it now on her orders?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 02:27 PM
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11. If you take it that way. Superdelegate is a stupid and inaccurate term anyway.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 06:46 PM
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12. Actually, I don't have a problem with it
Neither term is used in the rules. The official term is "unpledged" Party Leader and Elected Official (PLEO).

I think automatic delegate is actually more indicative of what they are. They are delegates as a result of their positions, thereby "automatic" delegates.

I can't blame the Clinton camp for anything on this one.
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