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Thread #109799   Message #2299366
Posted By: Genie
28-Mar-08 - 02:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary Adopts Tanya Harding Option???
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary Adopts Tanya Harding Option???
Clinton's campaign team is also maintaining that Bill Richardson, if superdelegates need to follow the will of the voters, should support her because she "won New Mexico." (I.e., she got about .5% more votes than Obama did, but we all know in Democratic primaries it's not winner-take-all, so nobody really "wins a state," and Obama got almost as many delegates from NM as Clinton did.)   But where is it written that following "the will of the voters" means every governor or Senator has to go by who won more votes in his/her state? Would that mean that members of the House of Representatives should vote for whoever won their district? The "will of the voters" is also reflected in who wins more overall delegates from the primaries, who wins the overall popular vote, and maybe who "wins" more "states."