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"Hello again! This lovely little DC cold snap (it&amp;#39;s cold for DC, I swear) for the Potomac Primaries followed by the need to campaign in practically permafrosted Wisconsin has, apparently, proved too much for Southern boy Mike Huckabee, who announced yesterday that he&amp;#39;ll be heading to the Cayman Islands tomorrow to give a paid speech to the Young Caymanian Leaders Foundation annual banquet. What a lucky guy, even if the Caymanians might feel slight less so if they see him in his swim trunks. But Huckabee&amp;#39;s not the only one looking for a little change of pace this week.\nHillary Clinton&amp;#39;s in Ohio today trying to make good on her advisers&amp;#39; projections that she can take Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio by wide enough margins to stay in the game. But, as predicted, they do already have a backup plan. Clinton&amp;#39;s communications director Howard Wolfson announced yesterday that even if Clinton loses the race for pledged delegates, the campaign will stay in the game by trying to convince enough superdelegates to override those results. In the mean time, she&amp;#39;ll be fighting to get the DNC to seat the delegates she &amp;quot;won&amp;quot; in Michigan and Florida despite being the only one on the ballot in Michigan and the only one to appear in Florida even after the DNC prohibited both.\nAlthough the head of the NAACP, Julian Bond, is backing Clinton in the fight to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida, the Reverend Al Sharpton agrees with Barack Obama&amp;#39;s camp that simply awarding Clinton proportional delegates at this stage based on a primary in which a lot of people stayed home and only one candidate was on the ballot might be equally disenfranchising. Mind you, the whole system of proportional representation was developed in 1988 as a compromise between Tad Devine and Harold Ickes to keep the nomination from being solely in the hands of party leaders, since Ickes was working for Jesse Jackson and Devine for Michael Dukakis. These days, Ickes is a pledged superdelegate to Clinton and thinks superdelegates have every right to override the wishes of the primary voters at the convention, while a neutral (and non-superdelegate) Devine thinks that superdelegates should hold back to avoid exactly that. Oh, the times, they are a-changin&amp;#39;.\nIn the end, though, John McCain and Obama have already started campaigning against one another, Clinton&amp;#39;s brand-new advisers have her going negative against Obama in Wisconsin and John Edwards still doesn&amp;#39;t know who to endorse for the Democratic nomination, but only because he apparently wants his endorsement to serve to shore up his own political position. But, hey, Congress and the current President made sure yesterday that you&amp;#39;ll get your tax rebate checks in May to help spend us out of the recession. Unfortunately, the economy&amp;#39;s already so bad that almost half of Americans say they&amp;#39;ll use it to pay off existing bills and a third plan on saving it, so let&amp;#39;s hope the remaining fifth of Americans who&amp;#39;ll spend it are the ones getting the biggest rebates!\nSo, what are you planning on doing with your rebate? Are you surprised that Clinton&amp;#39;s gone negative, or that she&amp;#39;s willing to let superdelegates override the voters? Or that Obama and McCain apparently really dislike each other? And how much do you wish you were heading to the Caribbean this weekend, with or without Mike Huckabee?\n&amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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