If this scenario plays out, this is going to be fun for us political junkies to watch:
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama’s advisers are anticipating the possibility of a Democratic presidential race deadlocked past the last primary, and the outcome may hinge on a fight over whether delegations from Florida and Michigan get seats at the party’s national convention in Denver.
One scenario prepared for the Illinois senator’s campaign and released inadvertently yesterday with another document projects Obama will end up in June with 1,806 of the delegates who select the party’s nominee to 1,789 for New York Senator Hillary Clinton. That is short of the number needed to win the nomination.
The forecast doesn’t include Florida and Michigan, which were stripped of delegates by the Democratic National Committee for holding early primaries. Clinton won both uncontested and is vowing to fight for those delegates — which were slated to be a total of 366 — to be seated when the nominating convention opens on Aug. 25.
“This is only one of an infinite number of scenarios,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said. He added that the information was released unintentionally.
Moreover, any scenario could be altered with changing circumstances or conditions.
Obviously, but a brokered Democratic convention suddenly seems a lot more possible.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
There’s nothing that warms the Conservative’s heart like the prospect of a couple of sanctimonious boobs tearing into one another.