This post comes from BlackPerspective. net.Yobachi breaks down the voting process for the Democrats nominee:
"If you’ve been following the news for the last week, by now you should know about “superdelegates”. I first wrote about them back in early January after the New Hampshire primary, and how in that case they gave Obama an actual win when he and Clinton tied in voter delegates.
But let’s recap so that everyone understands what we’re talking about. Determining the party’s nominee is not decided by the overall popular vote from the primaries. State by state delegates are assigned to each candidate depending on percentage of votes, and this is decided based on congressional district for the democrats as far as I understand it.
To become the Democratic nominee you have to win 2025 delegates. But, on top of the delegates that are earned from voting in the primaries and caucuses, there is this group of people called super delegates. Super delegates are simply individuals who are party officials who are handed a delegate that is equal to the delegates earned in the voting. These folks include Congressmen, ex-presidents, some governors and mayors, and simple state party officials.
For example, in New Hampshire, 8 out to the 30 delegates were super delegates. That means 8 individual people made up 26% of the total vote by themselves. That’s right, it’s rigged.
Right now Hillary Clinton has a total delegate count of 1,148, with Obama closing fast, up to 1,121 after sweeping 4 primaries and caucuses this weekend. Clinton receives 924 from primary and caucus votes or what are called “pledged delegates”, and the other 224 are from super delegates. Obama takes 986 of his votes from pledged delegates and 135 from super delegates. So Barack Obama has to date actually won the voting and earned more delegates from the voters; yet, Hillary Clinton is in the lead!
THEY’RE STEALING THE ELECTION Y’ALL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Hillary is receiving support from 63 percent of the super delegates to Barack’s 37 percent. That’s an almost 2 to 1 split. If you take away the super delegates Barack would lead by 62 delegates, but because of the entrenched party machine folks favoring Hillary, she instead leads by 27. That’s an almost 90 point turn around.
It’s really simple here. Hillary Clinton is the entrenched party candidate. She’s worked for Congress since the 1970s; her husband was head of the Democratic Leadership Council; then they were in the white house for 8 years; now she’s been a Senator for 8 years.
The whole apparatus of the Democratic Party has loyalties to them. They’ve raised money for these folks to win, campaigned for them successfully; made back room deals with them for years, even decades. And the Clinton business interest can be a luring attraction to these folks who want to make big money on the side. Plus the Clintons are known for selling ambassadorships, cabinet positions, and even the Lincoln bedroom in the White House to their allies and friends. And these slick ass politicians who are the super delegates, these party bosses want part of that action.
The political bosses have the fix in. This is how it’s going to go. Obama is going to win the majority of delegates tonight, and may even sweep like he did this weekend, catapulting him further ahead in the pledged delegate count of the voters. Obama will win the voter delegates and be right on the cusp of the nomination; except, the party bosses will support Hillary, putting her over the top. The Democratic political machine will hand the election to Clinton in defiance of the voters and will of the party rank and file. They will steal this election from the voters the same way these same people complain about republicans stealing elections.
And if some how that doesn’t quite work, the folks that run the party will then seat the Florida and Michigan delegates that Clinton won overwhelming because Obama didn’t campaign there as agreed, due to those two states violating the Democratic National Committee rules on when they hold their primaries. That will give Clinton a net gain to put her over the top if it is close.
Either way, the Democratic Party Machine has politricks to make sure their patron gets elected.
The voters of the democratic primary and party members must demand that super delegates suspend their role, and not cast votes at the convention; letting the will of the people stand. For the voters to vote one way, then to have the party machine come behind them and hand the nomination to someone else is undemocratic. The people should not stand for this. Call the DNC and call on the Super Delegates to pledge to refrain from stealing this election!
If you still need help understanding the whole delegate thing, CNN has a graphic and more explanation.
Thanks for the repost, and for helping spread the word.
ReplyDeleteWe really do have to stop the party bosses, or hold them accountable.
I am an ex-Republican who left my life long party because I felt that they no longer represented me and my interests. I really hate to see the dems acting like the republicans with backdoor deals to elect a candidate that clearly isn't the will of the people. I will be voting for Obama until I no longer have a vote.
ReplyDeleteBUT anyone who wins this election in November must declare an economic emergency and require the manufactured goods that are (and have been) flooding in from China to be have 50% manufacture in the U.S. much like BMW and Toyota do already...so don't say it can't be done.
This will create a skilled labor shortage and we all know that that will make wages for the "working people" in America rise.
Also, it should be illegal to "out-source" skilled American jobs.
We were promised that if we studied hard and learned computers in the 90s there would be GOOD jobs, but what happened was that greedy employers outsourced these jobs to places like India.
If Arnold can declare an economic emergency in California our new President can do it for the whole country.
Lastly, most of the illegal aliens will HAVE to go home. and we need to get a handle on the murderous gangs that have come in with the workers. Good jobs and benefits and no drain on our economy of illegals getting free social services will automatically make health care available toalmost all Americana the few left out can be paid for by the rest of us with good social programs.
GO OBAMA!
Go OBAMA!
One more point about super delegates - they were designed to make a level playing field for the no bodies that would like to be a delegate. If someone walks in off the street and has to compete for votes to become a delegate against say Obama, and he is a super delegate,that person doesn't stand a chance to be a delegate. Think of it as affirmative action with in the party, for the regular voters.
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