Saturday's Ruling Changed What?

[DangerDave921]

Did Saturday make any difference in anything? Anything at all?

We still don't have a candidate. It's still up to the SD's to decide. I'm at a loss to find anything that was actually accomplished Saturday.

[NightWatcher]

1. Hillary's "hail mary" was an incomplete pass....clock hits ZERO tomorrow

[WeDidIt]

2. There was a definite change

Barack Obama needed forty some odd more delegates to win before the ruling and he needed sixty some odd delegates to win after the ruling.

So in effect, the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee raised the bar on Obama.

[anonymous171]

3. It made her supporters even more insane. She had tricked them into thinking

that the MI and FL deals could put her ahead.

[DangerDave921]

7. Well . . .

that was never going to happen. Anyone who truly believed that was either: A) deranged or B) has the last name Clinton.

It's like a baseball manager trying to argue that we shouldn't look at the final score to determine the winner. We should instead look at hits plus walks, divided by ERA, for those games started by a left-hander on Wednesdays.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. We got some great YouTube videos out of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. She's gone VIRAL

[TahitiNut]

15. Poor Harriet.

[rocktivity]

5. While I'm relieved that the DNC meant it when they said the delegates would not be seated as is

I fear that in the future, some states may decide that it will be "worth it" to lose delegates to break the rules. Splitting the pledged delegates down the middle and not seating the superdelegates would have been a much more potent deterrent.

:headbang:
rocknation

[DangerDave921]

8. Oh come on!

We live in a world now where there are no repercussions for anything. Punishment is seen as too harsh, even when deserved. Remember when teachers could discipline kids and the parents would back them up? Now the parents demand that the teacher be fired.

[grantcart]

9. In terms of Obama's magic number he was moved back about 25 delegates

Since then he has gotten about the same and his magic number is now 42.5 versus 44 on Friday.

In terms of clinching the nomination it had no effect.

[Ravy]

10. It changed in that the DNC can now apportion state delegates

regardless of how the voters voted.

[hokies4ever]

11. It put a big hamper on a Hillary attempt to take it to the Convention

[paulk]

12. it changed one thing -

it set a precedent for the idea that you can be given delegates in a race where your name wasn't on the ballot.

In light of the fact that sending those delegates to Denver "uncommitted" wouldn't have really changed anything (Obama still would be the presumptive nominee), it makes a mockery of the entire process as "democratic".

[demokatgurrl]

13. It changed absolutely nothing, and that's the way

they wanted it. The committee is a bunch of cowards who didn't want to take any kind of stand, and made the "decision" that would have the least effect.

[DangerDave921]

16. DING DING DING

We have a winner!

The committee did not want to help either side, nor have any real impact. So it sat on its hands, found some comfortable middle ground, and did the least controversial thing possible.

Boy it would be nice to have LEADERS.

[jenmito]

14. Hillary was hoping for full seating of all the delegates (with full votes each).