Walz (apparently) backing Obama.
February 6th, 2008 3:29 pm by DJ DFirst District Rep. Tim Walz, who by virtue of his seat in Congress will serve as a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, which will select the party’s nominee for president, hinted toward an endorsement of Barack Obama today on NPR’s “Day to Day.”
Walz had previously been uncommitted to a presidential candidate, but Obama’s overwhelming support in Minnesota tipped him in his direction.
“I’ve felt this is the citizens and the constituents of the state’s responsibility to do this,” he said. “Our take on it was let the people make up their minds and we will cast our vote accordingly with them.”
The host then asked Walz if that meant he would be supporting Barack Obama. Walz replied that while he hasn’t yet made an official announcement he did say “today it’s becoming a little bit clearer” and “we’re definitely getting there, we’ll see how things shake out.”
[UPDATE]: Bluestem Prairie reports it’s official: Tim Walz for Obama!
February 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
[…] I Don’t Hate America! notes Congressman Tim Walz’s revealing answer to a question about his Presidential preference on NPR today: Walz had previously been uncommitted to a presidential candidate, but Obama’s overwhelming support in Minnesota tipped him in that direction. […]
February 7th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
One thing the old civics’ teacher commented on that may not be getting the attention that it should concerns his comment that he liked the direct participation by the party members in casting ballots as opposed to the delegate process. Taking that a step further, although Minnesota allocated its convention delegates through a preferential ballot, the US Senate race will be decided by state convention delegates. In 2006, Michelle Bachmann was able to get her minions to the precincts which selected the delegates to the County conventions and then to the District Conventions. Would Bachmann have won the endorsement if party members could have voted ?
This year’s most important election is not President, but US Senate. (The Electoral College makes most citizens votes irrelevant.) And who will challenge Norm Coleman from the DFL … unless you are a delegate to the State convention, your voice will not be heard.
Why didn’t the DFL provide Senate / House Preferential ballots in addition to the President ?