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Friday, October 10, 2008 --- 52 days ago http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/the-repeat-cycle-obama-inevitability-plays-
| Throughout the Spring and into the Summer, the Obama campaign was assuring us of the inevitability of his nomination within the next twenty-four hours. The Obama team urged us to do the math and insisted that further resistance was futile. In the weeks that followed, however, Hillary Clinton continued to rack up primary victories in state after state. With the finish line clearly in sight, Obama stumbled and struggled. As events turned out, the nomination contest continued almost to the start of the Democratic National Convention. Relying upon arcane party rules and a brokered deal to deny full voting rights to disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan, two states that dared to advance their primaries in defiance of the well established tradition of the party promoting the primacy of Iowa and New Hampshire, unless Obama was awarded delegates from the two states that had been carried by Clinton (full disclosure: owing to the party rules controversy, Obama gambled and did not file as a candidate in Michigan). Eventually, after decrying Clinton’s efforts to appeal to super delegates for their support in order to secure the nomination, Obama was forced to reverse himself, once again, and lobby the same super delegates for the necessary votes to put him over the top. Despite his early commanding lead, Obama could not win the game in regulation and had to play into overtime. For the first time in decades, Americans were nearly trea ... |
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