Word: superealism
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...that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have redirected their vote-getting and money-raising operations to the 22 states, 75 media markets and nearly 1,700 delegates up for grabs on February 5, otherwise known as Super Tuesday, one overriding reality guides their thinking - and it's buried way down in the weeds of the Democratic Party's road rules...
...August in Denver, essentially declaring that Florida's primary wouldn't count. That also led Clinton, Obama, John Edwards and other Democratic hopefuls to sign a pact not to stump on the peninsula for the primary. (They signed a similar pledge for Michigan, which also jumped the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries and held its primary Jan. 15. But unlike Michigan, all three major Dems are on the ballot in Florida...
...November effect, Wexler's confident that precisely because Florida is so important, the Democratic candidates will come to stump there soon after Super Tuesday and more than make up for the primary void. "Florida is not a state the candidates will ignore," he says. Mark Brubiski, Florida Democratic Party spokesman, says that while "there has been concern on our side that this would have a long lasting impact, we've worked really hard to fight back...
...final irony, according to Wexler, is that because even Super Tuesday may not solidify either Clinton's or Obama's hold on the nomination in this unusually hard-fought primary season, "if Florida had kept its primary election date where it was, it may well have played a greater role in deciding the nominee." That said, however, he still believes the Florida result will influence Super Tuesday voters even if it won't count on the delegate tally board. And he and other state Democratic leaders remain convinced, like state Republicans, that it was necessary for Florida to strike...
...powerful message for the Illinois Senator to take into the Super Tuesday round of primaries on February 5. "In nine days-nine short days - nearly half the nation will have the chance to join us in saying that we are tired of business-as-usual in Washington, we are hungry for change, and we are ready to believe again," Obama declared. His South Carolina victory will be topped by an endorsement by Caroline Kennedy, in a Sunday New York Times op-ed headlined: "A President Like My Father." The move will serve as a powerful, symbolic counter to the most...