March 14, 2008

Florida, the Democratic Party, and the Vanishing Voter


While yesterday Florida’s Democratic party idea of a mail-in primary seemed feasible, today it looks dead-on-arrival again. This is because the Republicans who rule in Florida are certain that State law prohibits election officials from authenticating votes cast in a Party's primary outside the one organized by the State. This seems a potentially fatal blow to the controversial plan (Hillary Clinton, who hopes to have "her" Florida delegates seated at the Convention was very much opposed to it).
With the possibility of a new vote vanishing, efforts to find a way out from the nightmare of a battle inside the "Credential Committee" of a brokered convention, seem fruitless so far. As things stay today, it is quite possible that Americans will watch live at brawls between the Obama's and Clinton's factions on the floor of the Denver Convention.