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Open Letter
Open Letter to the Super Delegates
The future of this country rests in your hands. You have a difficult choice to make. As chartered delegates of the Democratic Party you are entrusted with the responsibility to support the candidate that has the greatest ability to win in November.
The voters have spoken: each candidate has won about 18,000,000 votes, a dead heat*. And neither candidate has the required number of pledged delegates to win the nomination.
The Will of the People in the 50 states and 7 territories, and electability, must be the governing factors in your decision to vote for the nominee at the Convention.
The pledged delegate count is a poor reflection of the will of the voters. The count is a sum of delegates elected in primaries and caucuses. The primaries reflect the will of the 36 million people who voted in those 37 states, but the caucus delegate count reflects only the 1.1 million people who voted in the 17 caucus states and territories.
Electing 1 delegate in a caucus state took an average of 2,000 votes. Electing 1 delegate in a primary state took an average of 12,000 votes.
Primary contest results must be given more weight when you determine the will of the people, and not given equal weight with the caucus results.
In this election, the fundmental flaw is that one caucus vote creates six times the number of delegates than does one primary vote.
The candidate that has the ability to win the largest margin of electoral votes is the candidate with the least risk of losing the general election. We need the Super Delegates to elect the candidate with the greatest chance of winning.
Several analysts** conclude that Senator Clinton is the candidate that has the largest number of winning electoral vote combination possibilities and so has the greatest chance of succeeding in the general election.
At the Democratic Convention, we urge you to the candidate who is most likely to beat Senator McCain in November.
Signed,
Concerned Democrats
www.CountTheVotesCast.org
* Data sources: www.realclearpolitics.com, www.cnn.com,
www.precinctconventionresults.txdemocrats.org/election08
** A detailed scenario analysis of a number of scenarios has been done by www.electoral-vote.com and “Vorlath” (my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/2008/05/09/who-is-the-safe-choice-for-the-white-house and an update at my.opera.com/MrPolitics/blog/2008/05/16/new-comparison-using-rasmussen-polls).