After Super Tuesday, there was great rejoicing in Tennessee knowing that Mark Penn and the Clinton campaign had deemed us "significant." Because Hillary won our state, we mattered in the grand scheme of things.
Unfortunately, the Clinton campaign has decided that we actually don't matter, after all:
A co-chairman of Hillary's Michigan campaign and has a line that's sure to drive a whole bunch of red state governors up the wall:Hear that, future Clinton delegates from Tennessee? Your own campaign just called you a second-class delegate. We are a red state, after all."Superdelegates are not second-class delegates," says Joel Ferguson, who will be a superdelegate if Michigan is seated. "The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic."
I presume this means that Hillary Clinton will be skipping the Texas primary on March 4? They're a red state that will most likely not go Democratic this year. Why bother trying to win there then, if they're delegates are "second-class"?
If it hasn't been made clear before, this should now answer the question of what the Clinton campaign thinks of Democrats in red states, and of what sort of "party-building" they'll be doing once they're in the White House...none at all. Because outside of the urban power bases, the rest of the party simply doesn't matter.
Can't wait to see the spin on this one...
UPDATE: Check out this diary on DailyKos with pretty-colored maps showing how many states Obama would swing to the Democrats, and how many Hillary would lose.
UPDATE 2: Just wondering...what about red-state superdelegates? Are they second-class too, or do they matter more?
1 comments:
An alarmingly naive statement- I can't believe we haven't forced Clinton to tell us how she intends to grow this party. However, in fairness, he was talking about caucuses in red states; we had a primary.
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