RETURN TO FLORIDA
May 22nd, 2008, 7:56 am · Post a Comment · posted by Dan Lehr
Both Democratic candidates made a stop in Florida on Wednesday, for different reasons.
Hillary Clinton urged that the delegates from Florida count in the upcoming DNC convention, & invoked the memory of the 2000 recount to make her point.
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Meanwhile, Obama was in Florida, too - & plans to stay there for the rest of the week. While he briefly mentioned his Democratic opponent yesterday, he clearly had his sights set ahead for the general election, targeting John McCain:
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Obama has some work to do in the Sunshine State, as Time Magazine points out:
“While a Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters released this month shows that Clinton would beat the presumptive Republican candidate, Senator John McCain, 49% to 41%, Obama trails McCain by only a point in the state, 44% to 43%. The Obama camp, in fact, feels his positions compare favorably to McCain’s on issues Floridians will care about most in November. Those include abortion (Obama is pro-choice while McCain has pledged to seat Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade); privatizing Social Security, which McCain supports but which Obama, like most of Florida’s massive retiree bloc, opposes; and a federal catastrophe insurance fund, which McCain opposes in the form that passed the House of Representatives this year but which Obama, like so many hurricane-battered Floridians, backs. “
Our take on counting delegates in Michigan & Florida: something should be done to see that the delegates are seated, but whatever decision is made needs to have a punitive element to it; otherwise in 2012 states will follow Michigan & Florida’s example & leapfrog over others.
What do you think?
