blogs.abcnews.com - 6/27/2009
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ABC News' David Chalian reports: One year after the country got an in-depth lesson on "superdelegates," the Democratic Party may consider doing away with them in the future. It was just over one year ago when Barack Obama accumulated more...
gallup.com - 7/1/2009
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- A Gallup Poll finds a
statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage...
of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since ...
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More Americans See Democratic Party as “Too Liberal”
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 7/2/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
Now that Al Franken’s victory has put Dems
within reach of 60 votes in the Senate, Harry...
Reid is already working to lower expectations for what Dems will be able to accomplish: “We have 60 votes on paper,” Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, ...
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Harry Reid: Don’t Expect Too Much From Our 60 Votes
politicalwire.com - 6/28/2009
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politicalwire.com —
"One year after the country got an in-depth
lesson on 'superdelegates,' the Democratic Party may consider doing...
away with them in the future," ABC News reports. "The lengthy, expensive, and often divisive 2008 Democratic nominating process caused ...
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Democrats May Eliminate Superdelegates in 2012
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Saturday reading: Sausage making
Ben Smith's Blog —
Inside the sausage factory.
Fall of the superdelegates?
And more on the parties' off-year rules tinkering.
Nagourney: "Even as cultural acceptance of homosexuality increases across the country, the politics of gay rights remains full of crosscurrents."
Nate Silver sees a sliver of daylight - but just a sliver - for 60 cap-and-trade votes in the Senate.
Chris Frates on the rough give and take on health-care reform.
A warning note from the Washington Post editorial ...
Democrats May Eliminate Superdelegates in 2012
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"One year after the country got an in-depth lesson on 'superdelegates,' the Democratic Party may consider doing away with them in the future," ABC News reports. ...
Democrats May Eliminate Superdelegates in 2012
The Political Carnival —
... "One year after the country got an in-depth lesson on 'superdelegates,' the Democratic Party may consider doing away with them in the future," ABC News reports. ...
If I ever hear the word 'superdelegate' again...
Political Animal —
... is a twist. With both committees working simultaneously -- and in some ways cooperatively -- reformers hope that real improvements in the timing and sequence of the primaries and caucuses could result. On the table is an idea of delaying the start of the nominating process a bit -- from early January to February -- as well as ways to improve the caucus system and the eternal debate over which states will get to go before others. Of particular interest is the prospect of Democrats doing away with superdelegates altogether. Touching on what may prove to be one of the more ...
Democratic Party May Dump Superdelegates
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... It's impossible to look back on those halcyon days and not wish that they would soon come again, especially that sandwich, because it looked delicious. Well, those monsters at the DNC are aiming to wreck a large part of what made last year's presidential primaries so downright magical. From The Note: ...
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