YES WE CAN… Buy Votes

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YES WE CAN… Buy Votes

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Say it ain’t so. Barack “Change” Obama is literally buying the votes
of superdelegates. Oh, and so is Hillary “Third Term for Bill” Clinton.

Story from The Boston Globe:

Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the
Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign
contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.

“While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands
of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent
the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates
have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of
campaign contributions over the last three years,” the nonpartisan
Center for Responsive Politics reported today.

About half the 800 superdelegates — elected officials, party
leaders, and others — have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though
they can change their minds until the convention.

Obama’s political action committee has doled out more than $694,000
to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had
announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling
$228,000.

Clinton’s political action committee has distributed about $195,000
to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her
have received money, totaling about $95,000.

No one really thought Obama was different - did they? BigT