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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

A good reason to not vote for Mike Hatch

From today's Strib:

If he's a close 2nd, Hatch would run in primary
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Hatch said he isn't willing to see his candidacy die at the June convention because he falls just short of the majority needed for endorsement.

Now I'm willing to vote for someone who is running against an endorsed candidate, I've done it in the past. But I'm not willing to vote for someone who is either a weasel or math illiterate. Since it takes a 60% vote to get the endorsement there's either no endorsement or you lose it by at least 20 percentage points. To say you will run if you are a "close second" is to either admit you can't do simple math or are trying to have it both ways by claiming you support the process, and thus hang on to the delegates who won't support candidates who don't honor the endorsement, while having no intention of abiding by the endorsement. The former is unlikely, tho sadly not inconceivable, while the former is the sort of double talk we expect from empty suits like Norm Coleman. Either way, it makes Hatch the kind of guy I don't want running my state.

And by the way, is there no one at the Strib who knows this and could have mentioned it in the article?