Posts tagged with 'superdelegates'

TPMtv: The Argument

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 02 2008 04:27 PM | PERMALINK

The Argument

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In today's episode we look at news that the Clinton camp is discussing Jeremiah Wright in conversations with super delegates and how the press and spinners on both sides are reacting.
It's primary delegates, stupid....

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 21 2008 03:43 PM | PERMALINK

With slim chances of Hillary Clinton picking up more pledged delegates and more of the popular vote, (if Michigan and Florida don't revote/count), than Barack Obama, how can Clinton convince superdelegates to pick her as the nominee? The answer is: pledged delegates, the New York Observer's Politicker blog reports:

At the end of today's Clinton conference call (during which Phil Singer said that if the Clinton campaign were a baseball team, they have a "great leftfielder in Mark Penn") NBC's...
TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Rules, Rules, Rules

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, FEBRUARY 18 2008 01:06 PM | PERMALINK

Sunday Show Roundup: Rules, Rules, Rules

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The Republicans' best hope in 2008 might just be the maddening debate raging within the Democratic Party over the rules governing super delegates and the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan. Who's playing by the rules, who's trying to change them mid-game, and how might the Democrats find a way to screw up 2008? We explore in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.
The Problem with Superdelegates

POSTED BY MALCOLM RAY, FEBRUARY 12 2008 03:38 PM | PERMALINK

Today is the Potomac primary and many democrats are anxious that if the race is not decided in the next three weeks then in all likelihood the democratic nomination will not be decided before the Democratic Convention in August. This would be a particularly bad scenario as the democratic delegate system gives party leaders and activists a prominent (but usually symbolic role) in deciding the nominee. As we have come to learn in the past few weeks, around 800 of these “superdelegates” will...
TPMtv: Why So Super?

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, FEBRUARY 06 2008 03:28 PM | PERMALINK

Why So Super?

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Today we move from Super Tuesday to super-delegates.