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Washington Post: Campaign Seeks To Win Over Superdelegates As Clinton Gives No Hint She'll Surrender
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NPR''s Ron Elving: By now, no one needs more rehashing of the numbers, but here''''s the short version: Barack Obama has a virtual lock on the Delegates he needs to be the 2008 Democratic Nominee for president.
Obama needs only about a 3RD of the Delegates at stake in the remaining primaries and about the same share of the uncommitted superdelegates.
Barring another outbreak of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama should do substantially better than that in both categories.
Big A!! Note: So Game Over. Even the Seating of the Full Delegations from the Outlaw Primaries in Florida and Michigan is no longer a Real Threat to Obama''s Nomination.- Reply to this comment
- There are really to many Republicans passing themselves off as Hillary or Barack supporters. This only to get the dems fighting among themselves so as to forget the real important issues. I guess this is the continuation of operation chaos, this is pitiful that a great party such as the Republicans must resort to trickery, lies, distortion to salvage a party devoid of ideas that are needed by America.
Such as abortion rights, an end to the Iraq war, Healthcare reform, economic and energy plan,Education, honest governance and a plan for the future
Don''t believe the hype!!
Dems o8 - Reply to this comment
NPR: Karl Rove: Odds (Against) Sen. Clinton
Karl Rove is the former Deputy Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush. AFP/Getty Images
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Karl Rove, the former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, says the chances of Sen. Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic presidential nomination are ''Slim'' after Sen. Barack Obama''s ''Decisive Victory'' in the North Carolina primary and her close win in Indiana earlier this week.
Rove said its (Extremely Unlikely) that Clinton (D-N.Y.) will be able to win enough delegates in the remaining contests, or the support of enough superdelegates to secure the ticket.
Democratic primaries are still to come in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana and Puerto Rico.
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More ''Super'' News For Obama
(CBS/AP) Barack Obama has almost erased Hillary Rodham Clinton''''s once-imposing lead ..
Obama picked up the support of 7 superdelegates today: Rep Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey, Rep. Pete Defazio of Oregon, Laurie Weahkee of New Mexico, Wilber Lee Jeffcoat of South Carolina, Ed Espinoza of California and John Gage of Maryland.
Payne, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, had been a Clinton supporter.
"After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," said Payne, who in a statement said that Clinton is a good friend and he still holds her in high regard.
Payne is one of at least 10 superdelegates who have switched allegiances from Clinton to Obama. None have publicly switched the other way.
Gage is president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union of 600,000 members who work in the federal and Washington, D.C., governments. The union also announced its support for Obama on Friday.
"Our people, I think, recognize the enthusiasm and vitality behind Senator Obama''''s campaign," Gage said in a statement.
Obama, who won a convincing victory in the North Carolina primary and lost Indiana narrowly on Tuesday, has been steadily gaining strength in the days since.- Reply to this comment
Bill & Hill
Bill: Hillary, Hun, we`ll Win in Meaningless W. Virginia & Kentucky...Ugh..Coal Country, but we`ve known that for the past 2 Months. The delegates won`t mean much and we`ll have to Split the D@mn Delegates with Obama & God knows what the Super-Delegates will do !!
Hillary: Well Bill, I just got off the phone with Barack and he said, thats exactly why he`s not putting Time, Money & Effort into those meaningless Coal Mining States...
He`s concentrating on Oregon & Colorado & Montana. I wished we had`nt put our Time, Money & Energy into (NC)
Bill: I thought those (NC) Confederate Flag Waving, Johnny Reb, that those Hay Seeds would`ve surely Voted for Us being we`re (White)...
Man Oh Man, Did those Confederates Yahoos Fool the He!! out of Me !!!
Bill: Hillary, Stop calling Barack, You know I know, he gets Your ''Kitty Cat'' Purring !!- Reply to this comment
- John Mccain, can`t Unify his own (R) Party, Ultra Conservatives, Conservatives, Evangelicals, Young Independent & Moderate Republicans, he has Skeletons just Begging & Dying to be EXPOSED and he`s D@mn near 100 yrs old !!
Game OVER: ABC News is the first news organization to place Obama ahead in the one category where Clinton has always led -- superdelegates:
Sen. Barack Obama moved into the lead today in the last category that Sen. Hillary Clinton had claimed to have an edge -- support among the Democratic Party''s superdelegates.
The Illinois Democrat grabbed the superdelegate lead thanks to a switch by New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne and an endorsement from previously uncommitted Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon.
Those two votes gave Obama a 267-266 lead over Clinton. That is a huge shift since the days when Clinton boasted about a 60-plus vote lead among the party''''s pros back on Super Tuesday. - Reply to this comment
- wait the republican''s have just started obama will
be road kill - Reply to this comment
- there 2.75 billion who won''t vote obama
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- Nanging: Do you know what obsessive compulsive disorder is? Consider yourself so diagnosed. You are bizarre.
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- "HE IS RUNNING A CAMPAIGN AS DIRTY AS IT COMES! LIES, LIES, AND LIES CONTINUED!" Posted by dumbshun
They all have, so your point is...? - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
