Monday, March 31, 2008

Texas State Convention Day

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Maybe we’ll actually find out what’s going to happen to all of those extra delegates.
The place to go to get the latest info is Burnt Orange Report where you’ll see up to the minute news on what takes place today.

Sixty-seven of the state’s 228 Democratic delegates are at stake in a delegate-selection process that started with the caucuses. Selections will wrap up at the Democrats’ state convention in June. Continue Reading...

Saturday, March 29, 2008

New support for alternative Florida delegate plan

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The Ledger in Lakeland, FL is reporting that Jon Ausman, the head of Florida’s DNC delegation, has two proposals for allocating Florida’s delegates that will honor the spirit of the election results while not seating them entirely as is.

Ausman, who is also the DNC member appealing the DNC’s decision to strip Florida of it’s superdelegates and its 100% delegate penalty, has devised two different approaches for how the delegates can be allocated. Continue Reading...

Friday, March 28, 2008

Life as a Super

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‘Morning all – Mr Super here from MrSuper.org. Me and the boys at DCW thought it might be fun to give you a glimpse of life as a Super.

For starters, it used to be a dull existence. My life is very routine. Wake up, coffee, read the papers. Get dressed, get to work. I asked a friend who house sat for me last year if they had learned anything about me while living in my house. “Yeah,” this person said. “That you’re boring.” Then this Super Delegate thing came along. Continue Reading...

Friday, March 28, 2008

Dean calls for supers to decide by July 1

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DNC Chairman Howard Dean is calling on all superdelegates to make a decision by July 1:

A potential game-changer from CBS News and “The Early Show.” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says he wants superdelegates to make a decision by JULY 1 — the most specific he has been in his effort to prod the party to decide between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton before the Democratic National Convention in late August. Continue Reading...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Representative Al Wynn Resigns

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Representative (and Obama Superdelegate) Al Wynn announced his resignation this afternoon. He will leave office in June to allow Donna Edwards to go into the November election as an incumbent.

U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-Md.), defeated in a Democratic primary for reelection to his seat in February, announced this afternoon that he will resign from Congress to take a job a local law firm. Continue Reading...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Puerto Rico Governor Indicted

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Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila is among several people named in a sealed indictment, officials said Thursday, as U.S. authorities made the first arrests in a long-running probe into his party’s finances.

An Associated Press reporter saw at least five officials from the Popular Democratic Party as they were led in handcuffs into the U.S. federal building in San Juan. – AP Continue Reading...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Connecticut names Obama supporter as add-on

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Wednesday was Connecticut’s turn to name it’s add-on superdelegate:

The Connecticut Democratic superdelegate ranks are complete with the selection of State Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams, D-Brooklyn….he is a leader of the Obama campaign in Connecticut. Continue Reading...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Upcoming Texas County/District Conventions

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This Saturday Texas will perform its second level of delegate selection – its county and Senate District Conventions. Unlike most states, Texas does not apportion precinct delegates from its primary and caucuses according to its US Congressional Districts, but rather from its State Senate Districts.

A lot of confusion has reigned about how the first level delegates were determined on March 4th. Most folks are now familiar with the famous “Texas 2-Step”, where first a primary was held, then caucuses immediately afterward. Continue Reading...