Carville Wants Primaries, Not Caucuses for 'Subprime Crisis'

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The subprime "crisis" has been blamed for a lot of things -- a supposed recession, the fall of the dollar, a spike in energy and food prices, etc. But James Carville, a longtime friend and advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton, is pulling a new page out of his 1992 "It's the Economy, Stupid" playbook. He wants a "do-over" for the Florida and Michigan nominating contests to be a primary instead of a caucus -- allegedly because of the subprime crisis.

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[freff]

I love how he asks her a question, she answers it multiple times, and he just ignores her and keeps on with his talking point.

Nobody trusts a hypocrite.

[VenicDred]

The original post I put out there was about the caucus'.

I grew up in NJ, half hour from NY, and I live in California.

I was not aware that NY had the caucus system.(Senator Clinton (NY))

I do know that CA didn't.(large Hispanic vote)

And I'm not assuming anything about education.

My question had to do with why Obama did better in caucus'.(two weeks ago)

Your excuses were lame.

I have since read the Rolling Stone articles.

It made a lot of sense to me.(camp Obama and such)

You should read it.

[kabaau]

Do you believe everything that BO said? Have you attended any caucus? I attended one, and would not do it again. If organizing is BO's strength, why is he losing in major states like California and NYC? Do not assume Californians and New Yorkers are not college educated. Obama won in many small states like Idaho because she did not campaign. She uses a different strategy now they are paying for it. Obama used Dean's strategy, 50 states, not even his strategy, he borrowed it.

[devilembace]

Wow, that host is really dumb.

[VenicDred]

So what are you saying?

Only Hillary supporters work?

Obama supporters don't face the same issues?

This is the most ridiculous excuse I've heard.

Do you believe everything the Clintons tell you?

Watch out for that sniper!

The real reason is, the Obama campaign beat the Clintons to the punch in organizing.

The Rolling Stone articles shed light on this fact.

The articles explain the future of campaigning, which Obama took full advantage of.

This fact alone shows it's time to move on.

[kabaau]

caucus is intimidating. It is not the fairness because it exclude people that need to work for a living and it is limited to a few hours. People need to be there on time and if you're a student you have time off from class but for people supporting a family, it is not easy to request time off from work because it affect their income.

[xMannyfestox]

Good point, exactly why is it that Billary can't win a caucus?

[xMannyfestox]

WHat ever, in a fair primary Obama would stop Clinton in Michigan and Clinton might narrowly beat Obama in Florida, the net gain in elected delegates would be at best very small for either candidate. The only problem is that the Clinton campaign does not want a fair primary in Michigan.

[oldsheik]

Obama's team does not want FL.and Mi votes to count at all because he nows he didnt win them. They want Caucuses because that how he would get the edge here since he couldnt do it the right way. These tow states are being cheated out of their rights to cast a vote for who they wanted to win the people that didnt go vote then must not wanted to vote at all anyway or they would have voted and now people will say everyone didnt get to vote that way we can do it how Obama team wants so he can win.

[bleedingroseca]

Our country is supposed to be one man, one vote...secret ballot. Caucuses are undemocratic.