presidential primary

Bill Ownes, the DNC Committeeman for the TNDP, and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, had been talking about the delegates being required by law to vote for the candidate they were pledged to. As Randy Neal points out, this did not happen, as Obama won the delegate count 51-32. So what law is he referencing?

I've said several times before that there are several feminist organizations, EMILY's List chief among them, who will need years to recover any sort of credibility from the bad decisions made during this election cycle. After Steve Cohen's crushing defeat of EMILY's List-backed candidate Nikki Tinker, I'm wondering if we have an even deeper problem than that.

Sean Braisted reacts to word that some of your upcoming choices for school board don’t the best voting record:

It appears a large swath of political candidates have opted out of their right to vote over the past few years, including both leading candidates for Metro School District 9:

The presidential primary in Oregon today is quite unique - no one in the state will be going to the polls to vote. Back in 2005, they became the first and only state to have a 100% mail-in ballot.

Grantham Is Talking rounds up some of the more gruesome examples of the bitter partisanship within Democratic Party Presidential Primary from two Tennessee bloggers, Sean Braisted and Egaila.

The Oregon presidential primary
has been around for nearly a century.

And has proved to be as treacherous,
for front runners,late in the campaign
as NH is early in the campaign.

Gene McCarthy,Frank Church & Gary Hart
all upset the apple cart by defeating front runners
in the late May Oregon primary.

Sean Braisted has about had his fill of our governor’s constant chin-wagging in the press about the Democratic superdelegates’ selection timing and its affect on the Presidential primary:

Memo to the 5 Hillary supporters who read this blog:

Its becoming increasingly clear that Sen. Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee after the closest Presidential primary in modern American history.