Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Are They Serious?

So, the Clinton campaign is saying that, if it's close, their plan is to poach pledged delegates.

This is obviously the most contentious of their yet-revealed plans to steal the nomination, behind seating Michigan and Florida without a re-vote (largely Howard Dean's fault if it happens) and swaying all of the non-elected (and elected) superdelegates.

Now I am glad that maybe the reason Gore, Biden, etc. haven't made endorsements is because they will need to stop all of these shenanigans before they destroy the party. For what it's worth, last night some guy on MSNBC said that in a little-noticed interview over a year ago, Gore said that he didn't know if he'd be endorsing anyone, but that he definitely wouldn't endorse Clinton. Plus I'm sure those party vanguards, or whatever you want to call them, know that they don't get many shots at turning the largest generation ever (Y) and tons of independents into Democrats.

Update: Clinton is saying that this will not occur and is trying to defuse this story as quickly as possible.

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