Evan Bayh Sounds Like a Mayberry Machiavelli
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) is either an idiot or else a DLCer salivating to be Hillary's VP. Why else make the following inane suggestion?
A NYTimes article says, "Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
"He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.
“ 'So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States,' Mr. Bayh said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
For him, the hell with vox populi votes. In trying to spin the unspinnable, he ignores his own and Hillary Clinton's history.
The article continues, "Many Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bayh, have opposed the Electoral College in the past, particularly after 2000, when Florida’s 25 electoral votes were awarded to George W. Bush, who became president, even though Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, had won the popular vote nationwide.
"At the time, Mrs. Clinton, who had just been elected to the Senate, said, 'I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.
Evan Bayh's try anything, clutching at straws superdelegates suggestion is related to this:
"Mr. Obama, of Illinois, is ahead of Mrs. Clinton, of New York, in most other leading indicators: popular vote (by 700,000 votes out of 26 million cast, excluding caucuses and the disputed Florida and Michigan results, a difference of about 3 percent); delegates (1,622.5 compared with 1,472.5 for her, according to The New York Times’s count); and number of states (27 compared with 14 for her, excluding Florida and Michigan). The opinion polls are mixed but give Mr. Obama a slight edge.' from the NYTimes."
Senator Bayh is a tepid, pseudo Democrat, with failed presidential ambitions and attempts to refashion himself as a neoconservative, who voted in 2002 for Bush's Iraq invasion and occupation and voted with the Senate Republicans for retroactive telecom immunity in the FISA bill. As previously stated, so much for Senator Bayh's respect for vox populi.
Rank and file Democrats are not stupid, so Bayh should quit trying to equate the Electoral College with primaries and caucuses. It makes him sound like a Bushite Mayberry Machiavelli.
A NYTimes article says, "Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
"He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.
“ 'So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States,' Mr. Bayh said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
For him, the hell with vox populi votes. In trying to spin the unspinnable, he ignores his own and Hillary Clinton's history.
The article continues, "Many Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bayh, have opposed the Electoral College in the past, particularly after 2000, when Florida’s 25 electoral votes were awarded to George W. Bush, who became president, even though Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, had won the popular vote nationwide.
"At the time, Mrs. Clinton, who had just been elected to the Senate, said, 'I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.
Evan Bayh's try anything, clutching at straws superdelegates suggestion is related to this:
"Mr. Obama, of Illinois, is ahead of Mrs. Clinton, of New York, in most other leading indicators: popular vote (by 700,000 votes out of 26 million cast, excluding caucuses and the disputed Florida and Michigan results, a difference of about 3 percent); delegates (1,622.5 compared with 1,472.5 for her, according to The New York Times’s count); and number of states (27 compared with 14 for her, excluding Florida and Michigan). The opinion polls are mixed but give Mr. Obama a slight edge.' from the NYTimes."
Senator Bayh is a tepid, pseudo Democrat, with failed presidential ambitions and attempts to refashion himself as a neoconservative, who voted in 2002 for Bush's Iraq invasion and occupation and voted with the Senate Republicans for retroactive telecom immunity in the FISA bill. As previously stated, so much for Senator Bayh's respect for vox populi.
Rank and file Democrats are not stupid, so Bayh should quit trying to equate the Electoral College with primaries and caucuses. It makes him sound like a Bushite Mayberry Machiavelli.
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