Thanks George. Maybe she'll hit up Bill Gates and Warren Buffett next.

The Clinton campaign seems intensely motivated to have this do-over. They must have realized how fake the first election would seem to the superdelegates?

good idea Hill, tell the honest hardworking people of Michigan you're going to finance their re-vote with money from a billionaire contributor of yours pressed into ponying it up by a Governor from another state. that should fly REAL well.

there's no other word to characterize this but DESPERATION.

This is funny to me.

George Soros, who funded MoveOn with $5M, who's PAC has endorse Obama.

Yep.

That loud sound is me still laughing. I love playing Six Degrees.

How do you even go about asking someone for that much money, billionaire or not?

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

Too bad Soros is such a fan of disenfranchisment.

Rendell had said last week he planned to keep nearly $40,000 of Hsu's money even though he was wanted for failing to appear for sentencing after pleading no contest to a felony charge of bilking investors out of $1 million.

"Though Norman is my friend, and remains so, his failure to appear casts a new light on his assertions regarding the original case," Rendell said in a statement before Hsu's arrest Thursday. "As a result, I will follow other elected officials and donate the money he contributed to me to charity."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/07/politics/main3240773.shtml

Looks like they won't get a revote thru the MI senate either. Letting the convention decide what to do with FL and MI's delegates takes them off the table and leaves Clinton one less avenue to try to steal the nomination. It's getting more apparent every day she's not going to be the nominee to everyone but the Clinton campaign.

I think she should hit up her buddy Rupert Murdoch. Maybe even offer him a sponsorship -- the Fox News Michigan Primary! Wouldn't that be appropriate?

Wow. George Soros' major philanthropic mission has been to promote democracy around the world (and he's been very good at it). I never thought I'd see the day where he'd decline to fund an election. It's his right, of course. But I would expect that he'd always error on the side of having more people vote.

That said, it's it ridiculous that we have a state governor begging a billionaire to pat for an election? It's just so unseemly and wrong.

"... he believes doing so will further delay the selection of a Democratic candidate in November."

Translation: Mr. Soros did not become rich by flushing money down toilets.

It's over, Hillary.

As someone with long-term Pennsylvania ties here (and an ex-Biden supporter to boot), I have to say-- Ed Rendell seriously needs to be more careful about being so pro-Hillary here.

There was a report recently of some Hillary Clinton supporters getting busted for trying to tamper with voting systems in Philadelphia, to try to alter the vote numbers in Hillary's favor. Whether that accusation is true or not (and I don't have any idea one way or the other), it's gained a lot of credibility due to Rendell's ridiculous partiality toward Hillary. EVEN THE SLIGHTEST TINGE of election irregularities or vote-tampering, especially in a racially-divided (and often polarized) state such as Pennsylvania, would lead to horrors in the state after the primaries, and the utter destruction of Rendell's political career (not to mention the Democratic Party in general).

While I haven't been an Obama supporter, the truth is that his lead is way too high to overtake. His pledged delegate lead isn't "narrow"-- it's 160-170 delegates, and since the Democrats award delegates proportionally, that's a big lead. He also leads by almost 1,000,000 popular votes and double Hillary's states. The reality is, it's too big a lead to overtake.

If the Democrats want any chance of winning in November, they need to stop this nonsense and just get behind their nominee. Obama is too far ahead, and the superdelegates would ravage and destroy the Democratic Party if they were to overturn Obama's clear lead in pledged delegates. Especially considering the often divisive nature of this campaign-- the Democratic Coalition, forged by FDR all the way back in the early 1930's, would collapse for good, and never come back together if the popular support for Obama were to be ignored.

Let's just end this charade and support Obama. I liked Hillary before, but she's shown tremendous immaturity and even delusion by continuing with this futile campaign of hers, and thus helping McCain. Although, the way she's praised McCain in the past (and insulted Obama), maybe she's been trying to do this.

I, too, thought that Soros was an Obama supporter. At this point, with all the difficulty trying to work out new elections in MI and FL, and considering that both states knowingly broke the rules, did not appeal to the DNC for any accomodation prior to the elections, it seems that they should just forget it and split the delegates in half. All but one DEM legislator in FL voted to break the rules. MI knowingly broke the rules. The candidates agreed to not honor any non-approved elections in MI and FL. The fact that they are whining now deserves little sympathy. Let the party leaders in MI and FL figure out how to make peace with their constituents.

Goodness, is this nomination ever *messy*!!!

It continues to astound me that Obama and his supporters want to justify a don't count the vote strategy. Our first viable Af-Am candidate uses voter suppression tactics to get elected! You can do that to become state senator, as Obama did, but you can't do that to become president, recently, unless you are a republican. Maybe if Obama gets the nomination he can then take his name off of the ballot of the key swing states in Nov. And then, after he doe snot win the state where his name has been removed fromthe ballot, he can cry foul and declare himself president over McCain.

That scenario is more likely that him being elected President in a process that involves all fifty states getting to vote--as the dem nomination process is proving.