Who says Hillary doesn’t have what it takes to beat Republicans at their own game next November?
According to Steve Rosenfeld at AlterNet…
In an afternoon press conference, the campaign’s State Director David Cohen and Washington-based election attorney Bob Bauer said that an indeterminate number of caucus locations closed their doors at 11:30 AM — a half hour before the noon starting time — because manuals provided by Hillary Clinton’s campaign incorrectly stated the earlier start time. Once the door to a caucus are closed, no other voters may participate, according to party rules.
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Earlier in the day, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent this statement to volunteers:
“We currently have reports of over 200 separate incidents of trouble at caucus sites, including doors being closed up to thirty minutes early, registration forms running out so people were turned away, and ID being requested and checked in a non-uniform fashion. This is in addition to the Clinton campaign’s efforts to confuse voters and call into question the at-large caucus sites which clearly had an affect on turnout at these locations. These kinds of Clinton campaign tactics were part of an entire week’s worth of false, divisive, attacks designed to mislead caucus-goers and discredit the caucus itself.”
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At the Sunday afternoon press conference, the campaign said it had 300 election incident reports.
How sick,it’s beyond any deceny.I am with Cindy Sheehan on this I will no longer hold my nose to vote for trash &
are trash.
Jeb fer preznit …
Downright Rovian….
That line suggests we’ll have something good, if win by Rovian tricks. Another Rove tactic is that they blame the opposition for something they themselves do.
Imagine if Bill had been as much of an advocate for Kerry, on the truth, as he’s been for Hillary, by lying about Obama, we’d have beaten vote fraud. Couldn’t win in a landslide if everyone out there was afarid and not hearing anything bad about Bush from a respected two time ex-president. All he could do was have a book tour, and suck up the oxygen.
Whatever Hillary’s smarts and capability, Obama meets her qualities and more. My question, do we want more years with Bill Clinton?
My gripe is we somehow had to endure all these years, Iraq, Katrina, so Bill could have his do-over. Terry McAuliffe not building the party infrastructure or securing the polls for a win. (He didn’t believe in electronic fraud.) Carville, if Woodward’s book is to be believed, talked to Mary about Kerry’s election night plans, who talked to Dick, who talked to Blackwell. Then provisionals disappeared. Placesitting, maybe?
Kerry had to do all the heavy lifting, with a Democrat party in non-support. Maybe a few on paper, but not out there as surrogates explaining the very strong qualities of a future president. He didn’t shield the Bushes for the past 15 years, closing the books on Kerry’s own investigation, Iran-Contra, as Bill did.
The Clintons brought some bloggers and alternative media in their camp, early, like the esteemed Peter Dauo (sp?), and now we have the same advocacy media problem we had promoting Bush (although MSM were made deregulation promises).
Do you think their friend Murdoch will get a special favor or a pass, in the same way?
I’ve heard the same problems about Nevada, from eyewitness accounts. Media is claiming huge Clinton wins, when Obama won most of the state, getting one more delegate. He now has his own factcheck site
http://my.barackobama.com/factcheckaction
I want to be supportive of all our candidates, but the Clintons may yet split the Democratic party more, and undo the gains we’ve made as progressives, as aware and active citizens, if they continue making us ashamed of their tactics, and denying many of a better choice. At least a choice.
Obama is a worthy leader, and not at all a risk. People should read up and listen. Make an informed choice about what we need.
(I miss seeing what I write in preview. We all need an editor.)