At 10:25 AM 2/19/2008 -0600, Ed Leafe wrote: >On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote: ...
> > But, ya know, in terms of "democracy" this structure of voting sure doesn't > > sound very democratic to me. It sounds more like and "elite" set of folks > > try to keep things the way they want it. Hmm.... > > Political parties are not governments, so they get to make up their >own rules. Again, why is this news? It just struck me as odd that a political party, that supposedly professes it is better at "democracy" than the opposition (Republicans), set up this kind of "elitist group" in determining who gets the party's nomination. That is, a group that isn't chosen by the people to determine who they want to be president. Sure a "party organization" is not a government. But it certainly is entwined in the political system of our government. And very vocally as well, e.g. political propaganda (from both parties). I would not have found the same thing so odd if we were talking about how some corporation determines it's CEO, or how a union determines it's leadership. Anyway, that's just my take. Maybe you knew this was there all along - I didn't. > > I'm off to see if the Republicans have something similar. > > Did you read the wikipedia entry? "The Republican Party also seats >some party officials as delegates without regard to primary or caucus >results, but the term "superdelegate" is most commonly applied only in >the Democratic Party." Why I did indeed read it. That's why I wanted to see if the Republicans had something similar (aka 20% of the votes controlled by "elitists"). As a quick side note, it appears the Republicans do not have the same sort of delegates. The supposed "superdelegates" (actually called unpledged delegates I think) in the Republican party are elected like pledged delegates. But my research isn't done yet. I would think there would be some delegates that probably are not purely elected per se - e.g. chair of the convention, etc. But no matter what, it looks like the Republicans have a much smaller "elitist" group. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
