Democrats still duke it out

Re “Bare-knuckle politics,” Opinion, March 31

I appreciate Andrew Gumbel’s historical comparisons, but he has a biased view of the current situation, one that conveniently ignores the fact that voters in Florida and Michigan have been denied the right to have their primary votes count, and voters in a number of other states are subjected to an antiquated caucus system that drastically lowers voter turnout. If the superdelegates should submit to the popular will, shouldn’t that include Michigan and Florida?

Jasmine Starr

Brooklyn

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is right not to quit. Instead, she and Barack Obama should agree to rise above squabbling and concentrate on John McCain, using their combined war chests to confront their common foe, forcing him into war on two fronts (surely they have all read “The Art of War”). Transform a liability into an asset.

What the voters want to know is which candidate can win the election, not which can best smear the other. If the candidates still want to attack each other, they can simply slip their ideas to right-wing bloggers, who would eventually find them anyway.

George Tucker

Redondo Beach

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I laugh when I hear Clinton and her supporters complain about calls for her to drop out of the race. If Obama had lost 11 primaries in a row and it was nearly mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination, not only would there be calls for him to drop out, he already would have been pushed out. The only reason she’s still in this thing is because she’s a Clinton.

Amy A. Schwab

Los Angeles