{"id":1786,"date":"2008-06-01T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2008-06-01T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T14:11:00","slug":"the-delightful-dismemberment-of-the-democratic-hopescape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"The Delightful Dismemberment of the Democratic Hopescape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/05\/31\/dems.delegates\/index.html#cnnSTCOther2\">reached a compromise<\/a>, giving Florida and Michigan half votes and splitting the Michigan delegation 69-59 in favour of Clinton. Immediately, some Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/fuddle-duddle.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/dnc-sends-democracy-back-200-years.html\">supporters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080601\/dems_nomination_080601\/20080601?hub=World\">organizers<\/a> have begun to raise the spectre of a challenge to this <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">ruling<\/span> at the convention &#8211; <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">presumably<\/span> to get an extra 4 half votes out of Michigan, which would cut <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Obama&#8217;s<\/span> lead from 174 to 172. With the primary calender wrapping up this week and most super delegates likely to make their choice public soon afterwards, I suspect this is more for show from the Clinton campaign and we&#8217;ll soon see some sort of recognition on her part that <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Obama<\/span> will be the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, here&#8217;s a great <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">SNL<\/span> video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r-AGX7PprgU&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r-AGX7PprgU&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats have reached a compromise, giving Florida and Michigan half votes and splitting the Michigan delegation 69-59 in favour of Clinton. Immediately, some Clinton supporters and organizers have begun to raise the spectre of a challenge to this ruling at the convention &#8211; presumably to get an extra 4 half votes out of Michigan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}