AL GORE?!

March 21st, 2008 at 02:13pm Matt DiBari

Red State has a blog entry stating that pollster John Zogby suggested that high ranking Democratic party members want Barack Obama to release his delegates to former Vice President Al Gore so the party can nominate Gore to face John McCain in November.

I pray they do this.

The Democrats are facing a potential meltdown in Denver because they have two candidates that are so attractive to the Democratic electorate. Including Florida’s results, over 27 million people have voted, and the popular vote is split roughly 50/50. Because things are so close, neither candidate will be able to reach the 2,024 pledged delegates, and things are going to be decided by superdelegates.

The obvious problem there is no matter who the party throws the nomination to, roughly half of the voters will feel that their candidate lost the election in the ’smoke-filled room.’ For their sake, Howard Dean and the DNC needs to find a solution that is at least acceptable to the vast majority of the electorate.

Handing the nomination to the man that has not a single delegate in the 2008 election cycle, no matter how popular that man is, is not the answer.

If they steal the nomination from both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and give it to an old white guy, they will hand the Presidency over to John McCain.

If the Democratic Party really wants to go that route (and I doubt they are seriously considering it), they will be making their own grave.

Not that I’m complaining. Heck, I hope they do something like that every election cycle.

Tags: Al Gore, delegates, Denver, DNC, General Election

Entry Filed under: Barack Obama, Campaign Issues, Hillary Clinton, John McCain

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