#Dean warns against brokered convention
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Democratic dead-heat 'not good news' says Dean
AFP
Published: Wednesday February 6, 2008
[Zeppnote: one of the rare times I disagree with Dean. The fact that
we have a competitive and unmanaged race is one of the reasons for the
high level of voter interest. Political operatives have forgotten
that drama can play a big role in a campaign]
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced
concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the
party's White House nominating contests.
"The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and
then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good
scenario," Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1
television.
In state nominating contests so far, no clear winner has emerged among
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the party's nomination
ahead of November's presidential vote to replace George W. Bush in the
White House.
"I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or
April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates
together and make some kind of an arrangement," said Dean, who failed
in his bid for the party's nomination in 2004.
"Because I don't think we can afford to have a brokered convention --
that would not be good news for either party."
A brokered convention has not been seen in decades, and harkens back
to an era of shady political deal-making when powerbrokers and cash
kings -- instead of regular voters -- chose one candidate over another
at a raucous, smoke-filled convention hall.
The comments by Dean highlighted the rising tensions among Democrats
as rivals Obama and Clinton fight bitterly for delegate votes ahead of
the Democratic National Convention in August, at which a nominee is
officially selected.
For more than 50 years, each party has selected delegates who favor
one nominee over another by a significant margin well ahead of the
convention, which exists mainly for ceremonial and celebratory
purposes.
The last conventions that required more than one ballot to designate
nominees were in 1948 for the Republicans and 1952 for the Democrats.
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Brian Carey
"3941 Dead" <zepp22...@finestplanet.com> wrote in message
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> http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Democratic_dead_heat_not_good_news__02062008.html
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> Democratic dead-heat 'not good news' says Dean
Why didn't he scream it?
George Grapman
George Grapman
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Guess Georgie has hearing problems as well problems with facts, unless
he's going to say "it depends upon the definition of the word scream".
3941 Dead
<sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote:
Brian's a troll. Repeating urban legends he knows to be false in
order to attract attention is his stock in trade.
Kurt Nicklas
> >news:4bqkq31glh8a95hsu...@4ax.com...
> >>http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Democratic_dead_heat_not_good_news__0206...
>
> >> Democratic dead-heat 'not good news' says Dean
>
> > Why didn't he scream it?
>
> Because the scream story is an urban legend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc
Also featured are numerous shots of Tom Harkin looking like the utter
fool he is.
Brian Carey
"George Grapman" <sfge...@paccbell.net> wrote in message
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You're right. It was more like a howl from the Nazgul in "Lord of the
Rings".
Brian Carey
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!