Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, made the case for Barack Obama during an appearance today on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. In doing so, she criticized the idea, which has been mentioned that the party insider superdelegates may deliver the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton:
There are two things that decide who becomes president in this country. One is the independent voter, and one is voter turnout or enthusiasm. And that's the one-two bunch for Obama. If you look what happened in Missouri on Tuesday, we have an open primary and no registration. So independent voters in Missouri could have voted for John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
And by an overwhelming margin, they chose to vote for Barack Obama. And the enthusiasm that you see around this country, we have been wringing our hands for decades saying, how do we get the kids? How do we get the young people?
And I think it would be a tremendous mistake for our party to quash that enthusiasm by -- first of all, it would be a terrible thing to deliver the nomination by party insiders, because I think that would send a terrible signal to this incredible enthusiasm that's building in this country for the kind of leader Barack is.
2 comments:
McCaskill.......now there is a ringing endorsement. It is bad enough that she actually represents the state of Missouri but to try and sabotage the Obama campaign by supporting him....that's just mean....LOL
Randy, you are overwhelming your readers with politics. I know this is a busy and important time, but how about mixing some other stuff in too. Just my observation.
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