Friday, April 11, 2008

Election Reading

From USA TODAY by Jonathan Turley
Unequal Votes
The Electoral College is a relic of elitist Framers who didn’t fully trust ‘the people.’ Yet the Democratic Party’s superdelegate system relies on the same disturbing principle.

From The Columbus Dispatch by Deborah Jones Merritt
Democrats should stick by Florida and Michigan ouster
Sen. Hillary Clinton rails against the Democratic National Committee disenfranchising voters in Florida and Michigan. But Clinton's cries don't protect voters in those states; instead, she seeks to disenfranchise voters who believed her word -- and that of party leaders -- that these primaries would not count.