Obama Wins Guam Caucuses By Only 7 Votes

Democrats Turn Out In Big Numbers For Caucuses

(AP)  Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Saturday's Democratic caucuses on Guam by just seven votes. More than 4,500 island Democrats voted.

Neither candidate campaigned on the island in person.

Results of the all-night count completed Sunday morning Guam time show delegates pledged to Obama with 2,264 votes to 2,257 for Clinton's slate.

The territory sends four pledged delegates and five superdelegates to the National Convention in August in Denver although U.S. citizens on the island have no vote in the November election.

Voters also picked two superdelegates by electing a new party chairman who is uncommitted and a vice chairman who supports Obama.

One other existing superdelegate has favored Clinton and the remaining two are uncommitted.

All-day voting Saturday had people lining up at 21 caucus sites around the U.S. territorial island, which has unexpected importance in a historic Democratic race in which every delegate matters.

At stake on the island 8,000 miles from Washington were four pledged delegate votes to be shared among eight elected delegates to the National Democratic Convention in Denver in August.

There was no direct presidential vote, but each candidate had a slate of supporters on the ballot. Guam also has five superdelegates and two of those were being determined in the caucus voting as well - the party chairman and vice chairman.

Slow ballot-by-ballot counting went through the night in the territorial legislative building after votes were hand-carried from the caucus sites.

Presidential caucuses on Guam usually pass without much notice from the candidates.

This time, Obama and Clinton made their case for the territory's four regular delegates with local advertising and long-distance interviews.

Lines formed early at some caucus sites.

Cynthia Estrada of Dededo said she was making up her mind while waiting to vote, but she was leaning toward Clinton.

"She's had the experience," she said. "She's got her husband to help her."

Yona resident Tommy Shimizu said he was voting for Obama delegates.

"It's the fact that he grew up in Hawaii, and I think he can make change," he said. "I think it's time for that."

Clinton and Obama pitched improved health care and economic opportunity as they courted Guam voters from across the international date line.

Both candidates bought local advertising and conducted media interviews. In their protracted race for the nomination, no contest is being ignored.

Both Clinton and Obama say they've got the better health plan for Guamanians.

Obama said in an interview with Pacific Daily News that he would support reexamination of a $5.4 million Medicaid spending limit imposed on the territory. Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, told KUAM radio earlier that his wife would work to remove the cap.

Hillary Clinton also has called for Guamanians to be able to vote in presidential elections.

[rowdytexan2]

Indiana certainly won''t be like Guam! There''s not but four blue counties in the whole state. Even their democrats are conservative!

[jack3213]

IN HIS RETORT AFTER WRIGHT GAVE HIS SPEECH, OBAMA SAID :" I FEEL THAT HE HAS PERSONALLY INSUTLED ME" OF COURSE, OBAMA FEELS THAT IT IS PERSONAL, BECAUSE HE IS AS SELF- RIGHTEOUS AS CLINTON, WHEN NIETHER DESERVE SUCH ADMIRATION - HOW DARE THEY THINK THEY DESERVE SOME KIND OF ACCULADES FOR ALL THE NONSENSE AND LIES THEY SPEW. I FEEL SORRY FOR THOSE WHO ARE DUPED BY THEM. IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS- IT IS STUPIDITY.

[realtime09]

Absolutely true:

You also ate the dung when Media Inc. told
you he was "up by 12" in NH, "within 2" in CA,
had Hillary in trouble in MA and NJ, was
"up 4" in TX, and was ClosingClosingClosing
in OH and PA.

Check back Wednesday...

;-)

Posted by RField9 at 10:34 PM : May 04, 2008

WEDNESDAY IS GOING TO MAKE BARAK CRINGE.

[hillary4us]

GUAM SHOULD HAVE WATCHED THIS VIDEO BEFORE VOTING: http://www.villarrealsports.com/phpBB2/index.php

[truthyness]

sueann702...good point, Obama would

make Bush look like a good President!

[sueann702]

Hillary supporters:

If it came down to this vote, who will it be?
a. George W Bush
b. Obama

Hillary supporters would pick (a)
They would rather see the country fall than pick the man that beat Hillary.

[gorgeousm]

Is sueann702 bringing attention to who is the ''Antichrist'' ?

If any one would be, it would be Hussein Obama who together with his Moslem and anti-America mentors, is out to destroy America!

However, the term ''Antichrist'' is a man-made one, made up a long time ago, by some ancient minds, from their own personal thoughts.

In any case, we cannot trust Hussein Obama ANYWHERE NEAR The White House!

[veteran72]

(CBS) Democrat Barack Obama appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.

On one key measure, Obama has seen a big reversal since his denunciation of Wright%u2019s remarks on Tuesday. He now leads presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the hypothetical fall contest by eleven points, 51 percent to 40 percent.

OUCH!!! More bad news for Hillabush!!!...LMMFAO!!!

[gorgeousm]

RowdyTexas2 = the wrongful, cheating COPYCAT NAME of the GENUINE, TRUTHFUL ONE,

who is: RowdyTexan2 [the legitimate one]

Ignore RowdyTexas2 !!!

By the way, GEBUINE RowdyTexan2, who is Joe or old Joe who you referred me to re subject of being a sexual predator?
________________________________________________________

WHAT?! TRUST HUSSEIN OBAMA WHO HIDES HIS ANTI-AMERICA, MOSLEM CONNECTIONS AND THEIR SECRET AGENDA??

Hussein Obama: fancy words, and deceptive speeches from a deceptive, power-seeking, Moslem-born and influenced man.

Based on Hussein Obama''s links to all sorts of unsavory, anti-America, anti-White characters (such as EvilDevil Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader),

and as we continue to see, plenty others,

it is just too risky to trust Hussein Obama ANYWHERE NEAR The White House!

Hussein Obama and his hateful racists are working in ANYTHING BUT America%u2019s best interests!

[philly1550]

HILLARY IS WINNING THE POPULAR VOTES WHEN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN VOTES ARE COUNTED.

HILLARY HAS WON ALL THE BIG STATES THAT ARE CRUCIAL FOR THE ELECTORAL VOTES TO BEAT MCCAIN IN NOV.

HILLARY WILL WIN INDIANA AND NORTH CAROLINA.

HILLARY WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!