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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Oh Bull, People Should Try Reading For A Change

People must be desperate for things to talk about in what is starting to look like the ugliest Presidential race in years. And I don't mean ugly, as in the back and forth, but as in there's no one running that looks like a decent candidate on either side. Frankly, I can't even get worked up about covering the race.

UPDATE: TPM Election Central has a denial from the Clinton campaign. As Joe Gandelman says, this most likely was a trial balloon that fell absolutely flat. I doubt that Roger Simon got up this morning and decided to invent the story out of whole cloth.

It would help if people applied a little intelligence to stories, or at least took the time to read: it's a non-story, isn't happening. But if things are that tight at convention, you can bet your ass both sides will be doing it. And it's apparently within the rules, so what? People who think winning the Presidency is softball are either stupid, or haven't paid attention to a couple of hundred years of history.

“I swear it is not happening now, but as we get closer to the convention, if it is a stalemate, everybody will be going after everybody’s delegates,” a senior Clinton official told me Monday afternoon. “All the rules will be going out the window.”

Rules of good behavior, maybe. But, in fact, the actual rules of the party allow for such switching. The notion that pledged delegates must vote for a certain candidate is, according to the Democratic National Committee, a “myth.”

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