Re: Bush Mark II?

A re-vote was offered, and if I'm not mistaken, the Clinton campaign 
offered to pay for it.  Obama and the Democratic elite said no.

What it comes down to is the powers that be in the Democratic party LIKE 
picking the candidate.  If the average Democratic voter had any 
education at all into how their system worked, they'd leave the party, 
because it's so corrupt.

But alas, your average Democratic voter has no idea that the cards are 
stacked against them with the entire super-delegate system.  Nor do they 
understand how the system is set up to weigh black votes heavier than white.

In Texas, for example, delegates are awarded based on how each district 
voted in the prior election.  Thus say you have a hispanic district that 
voted 55-45 for Bush in 2004, and a primarily black district that voted 
75-25 for Kerry.  In each district, the same number of votes are cast 
for the Democratic primary.  The black district would get 5 delegates, 
and the Hispanic 3 delegates, based on how that district voted in 2004.  
I believe I have that example correct, but in state after state there 
are examples of that kind of gerrymandering lunacy in the Democratic 
primary.  Some use a combination of outright election AND caucus.  That 
way the people APPEAR to have a say, but in reality, they elect some of 
the delegates, and the party elite caucus elects the rest.  Toss in the 
Super-delegates (20% of the Democratic delegates are party big-wigs) and 
you see how the party elite completely control who the candidate is.  
The primaries are a farce on the Democratic side.

On the Republican side, no Super-delegates.  Winners of each state's 
primary get a lion's share of the delegates, thus more of a winner take 
all approach state by state.

When you think of it, I'm not sure who the two parties think they are to 
tell states like Florida and Michigan when they can or can't hold their 
elections.  Why, so two little piss-ant states like Iowa and New 
Hampshire get to be first?  WHY?  What makes THEIR vote any more 
important than MY vote?  Especially given that both states are pretty 
liberal.  It certainly hurts potential conservative candidates who have 
to somehow survive the northern states long enough to make it to the south.

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