Florida Superdelegate goes Third Way, endorses Hillary Clinton

[Freddie Stubbs]

Annette Taddeo, a Florida Democratic superdelegate and Miami congressional candidate, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Tuesday.

There was little doubt Taddeo, who backed Clinton in 2008, would support her again. Taddeo has been involved in groups that recruit women candidates for years.

"For 25 years, Hillary has taken on the toughest fights, time and again standing up against policies that benefit the few at the expense of our middle class," Taddeo said in a statement. "I know Hillary will build on the great progress we've made in these past years, to fight for immigration reform, protect the Affordable Care Act, raise the minimum wage and protect women's rights."

In addition to running against U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (a Republican and Jeb Bush guy), Taddeo holds a couple of positions in the Democratic National Committee. She sits on the DNC's Executive Committee and holds a title as Hispanic chairwoman for the South.

more: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/11/miami-congressional-candidate-and-democratic-superdelegate-backs-hillary-clinton.html

Add another one to the list!

[leftofcool]

1. Yea, all those 3rd wayers like John Lewis.

[workinclasszero]

3. Right

If John Lewis is on your side, that's freaking good enough for me!

[leftofcool]

5. Exactly!

[JaneyVee]

9. And Sharrod Brown.

[Sheepshank]

36. The OP heading must read exactly as the heading in the article lol

I'm trying to find "Third way" in the article.


kerfuffle to follow:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=792532
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=792648

Use of third way is a losing endeavor.

[restorefreedom]

2. the hype about the supers is just hype

no way they will go against the will of the people. they can come out publicly for whoever they want, but come convention time, they will have to endorse the winner of the popular vote and delegates, or there will be an implosion of the party right there at the convention.

[leftofcool]

4. Actually, no they don't

Super delegates are the deciding factor at the convention.

[restorefreedom]

6. you really think they will override the vote?

we will see a real-time implosion and the end of the Democratic Party. Maybe it'll be for the best, because a new third new party will be born right there on the convention floor.

all this talk about the supers having it sewn up for Hillary is just more hype to try to discourage people from voting. The will of the people will be respected.

[leftofcool]

10. When the vote is close, super delegates are the deciding factor.

Bernie could win the popular vote and lose the primary. That is the way it has always been done. Super delegates matter.

[restorefreedom]

12. never happen.

if Bernie wins the popular vote and the supers steal the nom for Hillary, not only will you see a flaming defeat in the general, you will see the end of the Democratic Party and the birth of a new third-party right before your eyes. It will never happen.

[MohRokTah]

15. Hillary won the opular vote in 2008

This is because Caucus votes are never actually tabulated, only the resulting delegate counts are. So out of all the tabulated primary votes in 2008, Hillary Clinton won the vote, yet Obama was the nominee.

So that plows your entire post out of the water.

[restorefreedom]

16. obama had the delegates (nonsupers)

representing the states. also, the pop vote went to him as well, unless you count the "clinton" totals of the disputed states

key line.... from realclearpolitics, obama beat clinton in the popular vote by 41,622 votes...

more revisionist history from the clintons..what a shock

from factcheck.org
After the primary season wrapped up on Tuesday, Clinton commended her supporters and claimed once again that she had won the popular vote: "Nearly 18 million of you cast your votes for our campaign, carrying the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history."
Did she? Now that all the primaries and caucuses are over we can take one, final look.
Obama won more total votes than Clinton in the contests where they both appeared on the ballot. Clinton won the popular vote only if you count votes from Michigan, where Obama’s name did not appear on the ballot.
Any way you cut it, the candidates’ vote totals are within less than 1 percent of each other. Both candidates got roughly 18 million votes, but since four states don’t list official counts, the precise totals can’t be known.
The political Web site Real Clear Politics has an excellent tally, with links to official reports from state election authorities. Those show that even counting Clinton’s win in Florida, where the two were on the ballot but did not campaign due to the state’s violation of party rules, Obama beat Clinton in the popular vote by 41,622 votes – a small margin, only 0.1 percent. Obama’s margin grows to 151,844 votes, or 0.4 percent, when estimates are included for Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington, which did not release official totals of popular votes.

[UglyGreed]

30. They are just worried that

history will repeat itself. There will be many frowns on the faces of Hillary's supporters as there was in 2008.

[restorefreedom]

31. yup. hard enough once, but twice is gonna suck. nt

[UglyGreed]

33. It would be the end

of Hillary's presidential aspirations, a bitter pill to swallow.

[restorefreedom]

34. perhaps. but after being flotus, senator, and sos,

my sympathy would be quite limited.

[riversedge]

25. Shiver shiver shake shake.

[upaloopa]

8. Bernie represents a small minority of the people. Hillary represents more people than he ever will.

[restorefreedom]

11. if true, then the vote will reflect that. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. They are in fact reflecting the will of the people

Hillary is leading in the polls, and most superdelegates who have made endorsements have endorsed her.

[restorefreedom]

17. they can do whatever they want right now

but if the popular vote and the pledge delegates come in for Bernie, and the supers try to flip it to Hillary, it will be an ugly convention and she will never be president no matter what the Dnc tries to do.

[FlatBaroque]

23. She will never be President. Period.

[frylock]

19. These endorsements were likely brokered the day after the 2008 election.

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. Not Taddeo

She didn't join the DNC (the office she holds that makes her a superdelegate) until 2013.

[FlatBaroque]

22. Yes, I find that politicians, first and foremost, adhere to the will of the People

The People, God bless us, should feel warm and fuzzy that our political class always reflects the will of the people.

[jwirr]

38. The will of the people is DETERMINED by the vote in the

primary or caucus. Until then these so called super-delegates should not even have a say in it. The should be forced to stay out of it until the convention. And I don't just mean this election. I mean they should have been doing this all along.

Do you realize that this is just another way that TPTB use to discourage voting?

[jwirr]

39. Agreed.

[sufrommich]

7. She's obviously terrified of the Clinton machine!!

[VanillaRhapsody]

13. Yeah this looks "Third Way"

[brooklynite]

18. "Goes Third Way"...like John Lewis and Sherrod Brown?

I guess the story would have had the same "punch" if you hadn't added that.

[Cha]

21. Thank you, Freddie!

[riversedge]

24. Miami congressional candidate (and Democratic superdelegate) backs Hillary Clinton

The real title of the article without the OP's editorializing.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. So since you have POTUS as your avatar...

is POTUS Third Way?

[Freddie Stubbs]

27. Many of his policies would seem to indicate that

[VanillaRhapsody]

28. You cannot be halfway...is he or isn't he?

It calls into question your insistence that SHE is...

following that...I will prove you wrong.

[Freddie Stubbs]

29. His trade policies are more aligned with the Third Way that with Progressives

What about his support of charters schools? Is that more Progressive or Third Way?

[NCTraveler]

32. She is really locking it down from every segment of the party. nt.

[MineralMan]

35. Yes! Because only Third-Wayers could possibly endorse her.

Please step to the front, John Lewis!

[jwirr]

37. Any surprise here? Back room politics as usual.

[TSIAS]

40. A real winner

She was on the ticket that lost to Rick Scott, one of the nation's worst and post unpopular governors.