Day of Blogging for Voter Justice

Day of Blogging for Voter Justice

I support the AfroSphere Action Coalition campaign linked above.

It appears that Senator Clinton cannot win the delegate count, as Politico.com has noted. The Democratic party faces the challenge of living up to its name and nominating the democratically selected candidate (see article at end of this post).

I’m calling on Ms. Clinton to concede the nomination as soon as it is clear that she will have fewer voter-selected delegates than Mr. Obama. So that we can all turn to winning the election against McCain. Clinton must not make a mockery of democracy by pressing for the nomination against the expressed will of the voters, or further endanger the party’s prospects in the national election by spending months working for late rule changes regarding Florida and Michigan, where—due to rulings that were clear in advance—her opponents did not campaign and were in some cases not even on the ballot.

Clinton’s willingness to, in effect, campaign on behalf of the Republican candidate during the Democratic primary is also a strong indication that voters may have been misled about her political position.

I’m joining in the Day of Blogging for Voter Justice in support of the AfroSphere Action Coalition (see excerpt from their press release below).

We’re asking our readers who do not want to see four more years of Bush/Cheney in the person of John “100 more years in Iraq” McCain to do three things

1. First, sign the petition
2. Make contact with the DNC, and even Hillary Clinton’s office to let them know your stance. It can be as simple as sending an email with a link to the petition, saying that this is your stance; or whatever you want it to be.
3. Contact superdelegates that represent you with the same message. Superdelegates include democratic congressmen and governors.

And:The Democratic National Committee:

Mailing Address:
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003

Main Phone Number:
202-863-8000

For their email form, go here

For Hillary Clinton’s contact information, go here

And: A reminder from the Electronic Villager: If you would like to participate in the Day of Blogging for Voter Justice but have not yet done so, all you need to do is sign the petition, put up a post, and sign as a Participating Blogger at Yobachi’s place so that we can have comprehensive list to share with everyone after today’s efforts.

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From the Afrosphere Action Coalition press release:

The Afrosphere Action Coalition (AAC) is circulating an online petition to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to super-delegates, and calling upon Senator Hillary Clinton to “face the reality of the earned delegates count, concede defeat, and thereby contribute to healing a wound which is opening and continues to widen” in the Party. Therefore, the AAC is sponsor “Day of Blogging for Voter Justice.”

As the nomination contest for the Democratic nomination wears on, Senator Hillary Clinton insist on waging an increasingly divisive campaign; throwing the “kitchen sink” at Senator Barack Obama, dismissing democratic voters as in consequential in those states with large Black populations, in small states, or in what she regards as “red states”. In fact, Clinton discounts every state that she fails to win.

Behind in the earned delegate count and the popular vote, “Clinton’s desperate political tactics threaten to split the long-standing Democratic Party coalition.” “We utterly reject Senator Clinton’s endorsement of the other party’s candidate’s; an act which unprecedented.” If she cannot win enough earned delegates under the current process, “Clinton seeks self-serving rules changes or to win in a smoke-filled room.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2008 Democratic National Committee Convention Chair, states that “If the votes of the Super-Delegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.” (New York Times)

The Afrosphere Action Coalition concurs and therefore calls upon the DNC, super-delegates and Hillary Clinton to “end her relentless war against established Party principles and constituencies and concede defeat in the nominating process.”

If Democrats are going to act like republicans and steal elections from the voters, then what’s the point of voting for democrats?

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Story behind the story: The Clinton myth
By JIM VANDEHEI & MIKE ALLEN | 3/21/08 1:32 PM ESTOne big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.

Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.

Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.

People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.

Read the rest of the article