By Sarah Zavala
Dennis Kucinich’s campaign packed it in early Tuesday night and threw its support toward candidate Hillary Clinton during Mock Presidential Election activities at WIU’s Union Ballroom.
It was a wasted effort.
Barack Obama got 2,692 votes of the 4,367 delegates in the Democratic Party. Kucinich campaign manager Ken Pederson, a political science and journalism alumnus of WIU, said this just wasn’t the year for a victory for Kucinich. Clinton, he said, was the best candidate for president. Pederson said that when it came to the platform issues, Kucinich and Clinton were more in agreement than were Kucinich and Obama.
“When you are voting on a president … you should fight for what you want and what you want to see happen to your country,” Pederson said.
He said he was glad that his support actually helped out Clinton, with delegate votes from North Carolina.
However, Clinton managers did not feel the Obama victory in this mock election was necessarily realistic.
“If the delegates did any research at all, they would have found out that most Democratic states support Clinton more than Obama,” Clinton campaign manager Katie Anderson said. “All campaigns work so hard, and their thoughts should be taken into consideration.”
Anderson suggested that because many students here are from Chicago, as is Obama, it resulted in an inaccurate election. Clinton is one of New York’s U.S. Senators, but Obama won more delegates from New York last Tuesday when the mock election simulated the primary season and this week also drew more votes than Clinton. Christopher Dodd got 14 New York delegates; Clinton won 116; and Obama took 150.
Will Western Illinois accurately predict our next president? Convention organizer Rick Hardy says it’s clear not all the delegates stayed “in character,” but adds, “Who knows? Anything can happen!”
Dennis Kucinich’s campaign packed it in early Tuesday night and threw its support toward candidate Hillary Clinton during Mock Presidential Election activities at WIU’s Union Ballroom.
It was a wasted effort.
Barack Obama got 2,692 votes of the 4,367 delegates in the Democratic Party. Kucinich campaign manager Ken Pederson, a political science and journalism alumnus of WIU, said this just wasn’t the year for a victory for Kucinich. Clinton, he said, was the best candidate for president. Pederson said that when it came to the platform issues, Kucinich and Clinton were more in agreement than were Kucinich and Obama.
“When you are voting on a president … you should fight for what you want and what you want to see happen to your country,” Pederson said.
He said he was glad that his support actually helped out Clinton, with delegate votes from North Carolina.
However, Clinton managers did not feel the Obama victory in this mock election was necessarily realistic.
“If the delegates did any research at all, they would have found out that most Democratic states support Clinton more than Obama,” Clinton campaign manager Katie Anderson said. “All campaigns work so hard, and their thoughts should be taken into consideration.”
Anderson suggested that because many students here are from Chicago, as is Obama, it resulted in an inaccurate election. Clinton is one of New York’s U.S. Senators, but Obama won more delegates from New York last Tuesday when the mock election simulated the primary season and this week also drew more votes than Clinton. Christopher Dodd got 14 New York delegates; Clinton won 116; and Obama took 150.
Will Western Illinois accurately predict our next president? Convention organizer Rick Hardy says it’s clear not all the delegates stayed “in character,” but adds, “Who knows? Anything can happen!”
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