Because it is unjust. The priorities are wrong.
They’re acting like the candidates own the votes, so they can split them up however they like. But that’s not right. The voters own their own votes, and what the party should be doing is making sure that their votes count, either with the votes they already cast, or by arranging for a do-over. The 50/50 split is the worst possible solution.
Anyhow, the DNC staffer is Phil McNamara. His address is mcnamara-AT-dnc-DOT-org. Be forceful, but courteous!
When Democrats fight for what’s right, they win. When they don’t, they lose. How are the voters in FL and MI are going to feel after having their votes divided as if six-year-olds at a birthday party were squabbling over how to slice the cake?
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If this passes, I am not voting in the GE
What’s the point? There is no way on earth I’ll ever vote for a non democratic party. Splitting 50-50 is anti democratic.
Here's the point
Secretary of State Joseph I. Lieberman.
Now get out there and vote against McCain.
Let's leave it to the OFB to sit on the purity pot, shall we?
To bastardize Wolcott’s post on teacherken…
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
email to mcnamara from me, last night
The 50-50 Split is a Raw Deal
and while it may seem the most equitable to one campaign or another, it actually acts to take away the votes of citizens.
Please do not encourage this action by the party or its leaders.
I understand that this election season is proving longer and more wearing than anyone had expected, but I find that not only are we seeing attack after attack against Senator Clinton based on nothing more than her feminine gender and attack after attack on Senator Obama based on nothing more than his skin color, but also now we are seeing these attacks proliferate in the absence of such voices as our national party chair, former Governor Howard Dean, calling for moderation, reason, or when it is warranted apology.
I am very disappointed in the lack of fairness thus displayed; but I find the proposition that votes could simply be appropriated and apportioned in accord with campaigns’ notions, obviating the voters’ own intent, appalling. It is not the way of the Democratic party in which I grew up and for which I have always voted, and nor is it the way of a representative form of government, let alone a democracy.
Sincerely
The Other Sarah
Alternate Delegate to County Convention