Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Hillary on "the Will of the People"

my first DKos diary:

If Obama ends up with more pledged delegates when all the primary/caucus votes are counted (incl. any possible do-over of Florida & Michigan), will Clinton respect the will of the people and concede, or will she allow superdelegates to hand her the nomination?

Sen. Clinton should remember her own comments from 2000:

"I have thought about this for a long time," Mrs. Clinton said at a rally in an airport hangar in Syracuse. "I've always thought we had outlived the need for an Electoral College, and now that I am going to the Senate, I am going to try to do what I can to make clear that the popular vote, the will of the people, should be followed."
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She said she wanted "to be on the side of the democratic process working," and so would support the effort to establish direct presidential elections.
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"I believe strongly that in a democracy we should respect the will of the people."

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