Bang the Drum

rants and ramblings of a political junkie

Entries Tagged ‘convention’

Congratulations to DNCC Credentialed Bloggers!

As much as I would have loved for this blog to be on the list, I am impressed with the list of bloggers that were given press credentials by the DNCC. Many of my “must-reads” are on there, including BlogHer, Jack and Jill Politics, Crooks and Liars, MOMocrats, AMERICAblog.com, Digby’s Hullabaloo, Firedoglake, MyDD, Obsidian [...]

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Clinton’s Taking it to the Convention

The Rules Committee meeting on the 31st doesn’t make a whit of difference. Here’s why

Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party’s legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo
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Because Clinton has mobilized her over-50-women base in Florida by comparing [...]

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An Alternative Solution to FL and MI?

Seat the delegations, but move them to the end of the roll call to prevent any last-minute machinations on the convention floor.
I’m more or less convinced that if Clinton doesn’t get her way with the rules committee on Sunday, she’ll will take the battle to the convention, and the meeting of the Credentials committee. [...]

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Memo to the Mainstream

To: Mainstream Media Outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Cable Networks and Broadcast News
From: An Informed Democrat
Re: Your addiction to misinformation, horseracing, and misplaced hope
Please be advised that this metric is worthless.
There is only ONE METRIC that matters when it comes to the nomination for the Democratic Party.
Read this carefully. The only [...]

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Obama to claim nomination on 5-20?

This will be a very quick post because I’m in between meetings for the REAL job today.
Politico has a post up saying that Barack Obama will claim the nomination on May 20th. He just gave an interview to Brian Williams of NBC which will air tonight. In the clip I saw just [...]

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Democratic Primary: This is Survivor, not Deal or No Deal

Let’s be clear here. For all of the constant yammering about electoral votes in primary races, daily tracking polls that move one way or the other consistent with the whims of the media stream that day, uncounted states and superdelegates, the Democratic primary race is all about endurance.
We’re not here to open 47 cases [...]

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