Florida Will Not Hold A Re-vote?
2009 July 9
“We researched every potential alternative process — from caucuses to county conventions to mail-in elections — but no plan could come anywhere close to being viable in Florida,” state party Chairwoman Karen Thurman said In an e-mail sent to Florida Democrats late Monday afternoon.
“Thousands of people responded,” she said. “We spent the weekend reviewing your messages, and while your reasons vary widely, the consensus is clear: Florida doesn’t want to vote again. So we won’t.”http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/17/f…
What kind of impact will this have on the democratic party if Hillary loses the nomination and claims it was because Florida’s delegates weren’t seated?
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Wow…this one hits right at home Ken…literally.
Well the only reason I believe that we are visiting the need for a do-over is because Sen. Clinton is behind in delegates. Her campaign came out first and spoke about a do-over in Florida and Michigan. Because I live in Florida, I can honestly say that a do-over would be catastrophic(we would find away to mess it up) and probably cause more conflict than there already is over the primaries. I wish that the Democratic voice could be heard in Florida, but it’s a risky move. By making this decision to not have a redo, it gives Howard Dean a little bit more power at the Convention in Denver because he will get to choose 25 delegates from Florida for the committee and 25 may be small number but it is huge in this race. I do want to say this, there are a lot of people in this state that would love to have a do-over. Only 2 million of the 4 million democrats voted in the primaries, and a nice chunk of that other 2 million that didn’t vote, saw it as a waste of their time to vote because it was not going to count . As far as the Democratic Party, there has already been a huge impact placed upon it by this election process alone. These primaries and caucuses are causing a strain on the party right now and it cant afford to take another hit by having a potential “faulty primary”. Painted , I agree it’s not your fault that your vote does not count, but it is not fair to use a primary that may not be accurate because some Floridian’s did not vote based on the rules of “the game”, and on that note, a do over would go against the rules of “the game” since all parties involved knew over a year and a half ago that Florida and Michigan would not count.
They will seat the delegates. It will be some agreement between the state, DNC, and campaigns.
They should use the original votes. It is not my fault that my vote doesn’t count. I’m not the one who broke the rules.
Florida knew that their delegates would not be seated when they had the early primary. This wasn’t a big secret. And -now- they are crying foul?
Florida and the party seem to enjoy being at odds with each other, if not too much. Gore got over it, and so will Hillary, if it comes to that.