By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s divvy-up of North Carolina and Indiana between them further deepens the two perils the Democrats face. One is that neither heavy hitter can deliver the knockout punch that the Democrats desperately need to get on with the business of mounting a united front against John McCain. The other is the much-talked and much-worried-about peril of a divided party and what that means.
There are two big reasons that preordained that the Democrats would find themselves in this muddled, confused and frustrating danger. The Democrats’ winner-not-take-all proportional delegate system and the system of superdelegates that they dumped onto the primaries was a prescription for disaster. The idea behind this was to bring democracy with a small d to the vote process and snatch the decision about who gets the big prize out of deal-making party bosses at the national convention. This supposedly would insure a smooth, happy-faced party convention and a coronation for the party’s pick.
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