Comments by markg8 - Las Vegas Sun

Comments by user: markg8

Posted on: Timing may sink lawsuit aimed at Strip voting

Michael his name is spelled "Huckabee". Sheesh.

The judge ought to throw this suit out. The teachers union honchos acting as surrogates for the Clintons were fine with the Strip caucuses until Obama got the Culinary Union endorsement over Hillary and Edwards. Suppressing votes is a Republican tactic yet Hillary tried to suppress college student votes in IA and she's trying it again in NV.

That's not how we win elections. Dems need every voter and caucus goer we can get to decide our nominee because we'll need every vote we can get in November to build the kind of overwhelming victory required for the changes this country needs.

In yesterday's MI primary with no other major candidate on the Dem ballot Hillary got a lackluster 55% of the vote. "Uncommitted" got 40%. Facing that kind of opposition Bill got over 90% of the Dem MI primary vote in 1996 and Bush 90% of the 2004 Republican vote.

Hillary's showing was so poor, even with the support of top Michigan Democrats such as Governor Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in a state with high unemployment that should be solidly Democratic she drew 10,000 less votes than Romney, the Republican winner.

According to the exit polls a lot of Democratic and independent voters apparently stayed home or voted for McCain.

If Hillary wants to be our nominee she ought to be fighting for as many votes as she can get instead of trying to disenfranchise her opponents' voters. Judge Mahan throw this suit out.

(Suggest removal) 1/16/08 at 9:25 a.m.