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| Video- What will happen to the Democratic Party if the popular vote winner isn’t the nominee?
by Arlen Parsa
This clip from Face The Nation, 2/17/07 is a must watch for those of us thinking about the end game.
CBS’ Bob Schieffer asks Clinton surrogate Antonio Villaraigosa (a Clinton surrogate) if he thinks this nomination will carry into the convention (he says yes and manages to spin it as an “aw shucks” type of thing).
Schieffer then asks the same of Obama surrogate Doug Wilder (the first elected African American governor and now the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia) if he thinks it will head to the convention and Wilder convincingly explains why if it did it would be an absolute tradgety for the party if the winner of pledged delegates does not emerge victorious.
The last part of the clip is from later in the program where Schieffer asks The Politico’s Roger Simon about Wilder’s comments, and Simon more or less ratifies them.
My viewpoint was already obviously closer to Wilder’s, but the way he described the possible result if the superdelegates decide this race was quite a bit better put than I’ve heard elsewhere. It really would be a major problem for the party.
Clinton who got all the votes in NY voting precincts, including Harlem, has bigger problems5 million can go a long way I guess and if Obama wins the delegate count and hill wins the super del’s, it will be like running into a brick wall for the Dems
[…] And frankly he’s right: there would be chaos if the pledged delegate winner (the choice of the party) doesn’t go on to be the nominee. More on that possible situation here. […]