Talk about the inevitability of hope over experience, yesterday’s Globe had a sad story about how decades of “unintended consequences” of party reforms have left the Democratic party nomination process with the deadlock it now faces. The very next day the Globe’s Editorial cloister cheerfully endorses shunting the Constitution via the National Popular Vote initiative, citing it as “One clever way to fix this problem”. The problem being the constitution’s electoral college and the tradition of all a state’s electors voting for the candidate who wins the state’s election.
No problem is perceived as intractable by the meddlesome, even when "unintended consequences "appear.
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This is an absolute nightmare for the Democrats. Months ago, Hillary felt that her 'inevitability' was assured. But somewhere along the way, a bucket of water fell on her head and she's melting. Ohhh, what a world, what a world. Hillary's worst nightmare, if what's happening now isn't bad enough, is that she ends up being seen as having 'stolen' the nomination from Obama. How can it not come across this way, as tightly matched as these two are? The black community will riot; other staunch Obama supporters will probably join in. And she's going to come on TV in some flowery pants suit and tell us that we should all come together and put past differences behind us? I doubt it. But I will have popcorn ready when she tries.
It's too late to stem the tide. If she somehow does shovel against the tide and win with Barone's math, the conspiracy theories will choke her off. Already a nut shoting at Bill Clinton is perceived as a Hilary plant. She is not damned if she does or if she don't, she is just damned.
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