It is not unusual to shuffle the staff during a campaign. Hopefully the Evita Obama race will be a messy draw all the way to the convention . I would love to see the Dems split by a nasty floor fight.
Broomhilda is planning to ask Madam Mimi and Harry Reid to try to convince Obama to
"stand down" lol .
The Clinton camp hopes to stop the Obama bandwagon by winning Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, after which Mrs Clinton is planning to call on party grandees including Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, to persuade Mr Obama to stand down.
Hillary Clinton's advisers 'in a state of panic' - Telegraph
Howard the scream Dean is planning on a major intervention if the race isn't settled soon.
The problem is that the deciding factor could be Super Delegates votes . Super delegates are seated based solely on their status as current or former elected officeholders and party officials.They are not sent there by the primary and caucus vote.
There are some Super Delegates who have threatened to leave the party if the nomination comes down to their handful of votes over the will of the primary voters.
Open Left:: How I Could Quit The Democratic Party
Donna Brazile,who managed Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000, is a super delegate .She told ABC
"If 795 of my colleagues decide this election, I will quit the Democratic Party. I feel very strongly about this."
ABC News: Obama vs. Clinton: Will Voters or Elite Decide?
Leading Dems in the House and the Senate are calling this a potential "train wreck"
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Democrats Warn of Coming 'Train Wreck' as GOP Moves Closer to a Nominee - You Decide 08!
Another potential source of controversy is the delegates of Fla. And Michigan. Both states had their delegates stripped because they defied the party by voting early .
In Florida's case, each of the candidates agreed to play by the DNC's rules and vowed not to campaign in the state at all. In Michigan, the candidates agreed not to “participate” in the state's primary, which led John Edwards and Barack Obama to remove their names from Michigan's primary ballot.Evita promised not to participate in Michigan's contest, but she refused to take her name off the ballot. With no one else to vote for the primary voters split the block between Evita and "undecided " .
Evita decided to actively campaign in Fla .and the other candidates including Obama did not . She easily won the count but presumably did not pick up any delegates . She is planning to challenge the ruling of the national party so the delegations are restored . Expect this to go to the courts. How ironic would it be if Fla. Was again the center of a controversy in the electoral process ? Obama wants a 2nd contest in those states before their delegates are restored . But if that happens then I'm sure she will scream foul . But what would she have them do ? Change the rules midstream ? If she uses Michigan and Florida to capture the nomination, the Obama camp, and their supporters,will feel that she stole her victory. They didn't contest those states because they weren't going to count, not because they were so committed to the DNC's procedural arguments .
So what you have here is a potential for a number of reasons for one of the candidates supporters to think the nomination is stolen from them . Imagine that irony when they have presumably worked so hard the enfranchise core groups of supporters for both camps ?
This is going to get very interesting in the coming weeks . Evita's hail mary pass is the Texas and Ohio primaries . If she doesn't win them decisively then expect chaos and crisis in the Democrat party throughout the rest of the campaign.