Joel's Two Cents
Onward to Guam!
Will Guam end up with license to decide the Democratic nominee? (The Washington Post).
By Joel Achenbach
Get ready for Guam.
Circle the date on your calendar, book your flight. On May 3, Guam -- which increasingly looks like the New Hampshire of the Mariana Islands -- will hold its presidential primary, with nine Democratic delegates at stake.
True, that's not a lot of delegates, but every delegate counts at this point, and Guam is the first primary after the Super Tuesday III vote in Portentous Pennsylvania.
Will candidates actually go to Guam, you ask, rather than concentrate on the much larger states of Indiana and North Carolina that vote just three days later, on May 6? Obviously the answer is that they should, because the flights can stop in Hawaii for much needed R&R and big-wave surfing.
I'd also venture that the Guam contest, being located on an island, will serve as a harbinger of the too-critical-for-words mindblower of a primary on June 7 in Puerto Rico.
That will be the final showdown in this epic barnburner of a slugfest of a donnybrook. Don't scoff at Puerto Rico: It is putting 63 delegates up for grabs, which, in case you've misplaced your delegate tracker, is more than the number of delegates that were at stake in Iowa.
Or New Hampshire.
Or South Carolina.
And more than were at stake in, let's see: Connecticut, New Mexico, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Maine, Nebraska, Utah, Kansas, Idaho, Delaware, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas, Alaska, Alabama or the District of Columbia.
So, on to Puerto Rico!
On Expedia, I'm seeing a non-stop leaving tomorrow from Dulles to San Juan for just $389 round-trip (return Monday) on the unfortunately named airline Ted.
Posted at 11:29 AM ET on Mar 5, 2008
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Posted by: Anonymous | April 26, 2008 1:10 PM | Report abuse
Hillbillasama?
Posted by: rat-the | March 5, 2008 11:42 AM | Report abuse
O'Billary is never going to let it go that far.
Unfortunately! ;~)
Posted by: rat-the | March 5, 2008 11:40 AM | Report abuse
steven4:
There's no realistic way that Hillary DIANE Clinton will agree to the number two spot.
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Posted by: steven4 | March 5, 2008 11:38 AM | Report abuse
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Hillary is leading the popular vote. The caucus system is flawed, as it was shown in Texas (Hillary won the popular votes by 101,000 or 4% for a total of 2,000,000 votes, but only 40,000 people voted in caucus as well - the same one who had voted already in primary, and gave 12% advantage to Obama. Obama has won mostly in Caucuses and not even one major state with the exception of his home state.
The voice of people= the popular vote should mean something, and should determine this race, as none of them can reach the target delegate.
Hillary 08! :)