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• 1 kmf // Jan 10, 2008 at 10:23 pm

  Helps.

  If nothing else, that’s one more “superdelegate.” And a standing US Senator is not without influence–he can twist some arms.

  …….Assuming, of course, that he’s not for Obama before he’s against him.

• 2 CarolinaBlue // Jan 13, 2008 at 1:56 am

  Maybe he likes the sound of Vice President Kerry since President Kerry didn’t work out.

  I find it interesting how much stock is put into the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary by the pundits. I’m not ready to write off John Edwards yet, as apparently the media spin doctors have already relegated him to also-ran status.

  The results in Iowa and New Hampshire do not automatically signal a coronation. Hopping in the way-back machine to 1972, Edmund Muskie won for the Democrats in both Iowa and New Hampshire, yet George McGovern eventually won the nomination. In 1988 the candidates who eventually became the Democratic and Republican nominees, Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H.W. Bush, came in third in Iowa. In 1992 Tom Harkin won Iowa with 76 percent of the vote, followed by “Uncommitted” (12), Paul Tsongas (4) and then Bill Clinton (3). Paul Tsongas carried New Hampshire that year.

• 3 Mr. Dependable // Jan 13, 2008 at 10:45 am

  I find the entire primary process to be depressing, and anti-democratic, in a peculiar way. I especially don’t like “open” primaries, which devalue the importance of party building, and elevate personality and charisma far above platform. It’s seems to be uniquely American (although it looks like the Russians are catching up to this variant of democracy.)

  Josh Marshall has an interesting take on the endorsement process, not just limited to Kerry’s endorsement of Obama. Which, by the way, doesn’t move me in the least.

• 4 kmf // Jan 14, 2008 at 11:46 am

  The American Plan has been getting some press recentlly as an alternative to the current system.  Here’s how it stacks up against the others.

  That failing, there’s alway’s the “baby primary.”
  
   

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