Re: Week of March 3rd Time Wasting Thread


"Sally" <SallyDrell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't want to make you feel any more peevish, but now my wild and
woolly state of Florida wants a "do-over" so we'll have delegates at
the convention. Money...who's going to pay for it, seems to be the
issue right now. One thing is sure. Whatever happens, if Florida
becomes crucial to this election, get ready to hunker down for some
voting disaster. (I plead the 5th...I'm a native New Yorker.) Voting
disasters are Florida. Florida is voting disasters. What's the other
state that moved up their primary and forfeited delegates? I forget.
Missouri? Wisconsin?



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Michigan. And our governor, a Hillary supporter, says we're NOT going to
spend the money for a do-over.





But something's got to be done to get delegates
represented there. Maybe Florida should just secede from the Union.

S.

On Mar 9, 12:02?am, katycren <Katyc...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 8, 11:51 pm, Brady <watercl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Kate wrote:
On Mar 8, 10:46 pm, Brady <watercl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Donz wrote:
On Mar 8, 9:52 pm, Donz5 <do...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Like I said, this one's a big deal. And it's a harbinger for
November.
AP has just declared Foster the winner.
This outcome also helps Obama in the eyes of the superdelegates. He
ran an ad in the district, supporting Foster (while McCain headed a
fundraiser for Oberweis). It suggests that Obama has coattails.
<<channeling the Clinton campaign>> 'It's about *electability*. Also,
Senator Clinton has shown she can win the *big states*.'

It was what I perceived as Obama's electability that helped me chose
between him and Hillary. A friend of mine told me right before the
Super Tuesday primaries that she had voted in advance for Obama. Then
she mentioned that it was the first time in her life (she's in her
mid-
forties) that she had voted for a Democrat and also the first time she
had ever voted for an African-American. Also, a Catholic male friend
told me he would move to New Zealand if Hillary won and that if he
were to "lean left" he would vote for Barack. Their comments helped
convince me that Obama could win more crossover Republican votes and
was more electable than Hillary.

Oh, I'm not saying I necessarily agree with my 'channeled' analysis.
It's just that if I've heard 'electability' and 'she's won the big
primaries' once this week, I've heard it a thousand times. Or at least
it seems that way.

I know. That's the buzz right now and it's making me peevish.

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