Legal Commentary

Overnight Open Thread

By Jeralyn

This may be our first overnight open thread but I'm blogged out and you all seem to have more to say.

Here's your place. Big Tent Democrat will probably be back in the morning for a W. Va. wrap up posts.

My final thoughts: Obama is likely to do as poorly in KY as he did in W. VA. Counting MI and FL votes (not delegates), she's going to either top Obama or get really close to him in the popular vote total.

As to what you can do, here's my suggestion: [more...]

If you live in a state that went for Hillary, check out the superdelegates from your state that are in Congress. Write them and tell them that since Hillary won in your state and she's the most electable in November, if they do not support her, you will take that into account in deciding whether to encourage someone else to run for his or her seat in the Democratic primary next time around.

And, if Obama is the nominee and loses in the general, you will hold them personally responsible because they should have known Hillary was the more electable and they did a disservice to Democrats everywhere by voting against the candidate that had the best chance of winning.

Tell them you will do your best to make sure the primary opponent campaigns against them using the argument that not only did he or she go against the will of the voters in your state, he or she made a bad judgment call. People who make bad judgments like that shouldn't be serving in Congress.

There's nothing these Senators and Congresspersons hate more than a contested primary. It distracts them, costs money and keeps them on edge. They care about getting re-elected more than anything else. That's your leverage. In my opinion.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).