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POPS 'Uncommitted' Votes Rankle Clintonistas "Count Every Half Vote!" To prevent this nomination theft, Democrats decided to count only every half vote. This means Mr. Obama needs to win a few more superdelegates to gain a majority, and it isn't sitting well with the Clinton camp. Senator Clinton is now saber-rattling about challenging the Michigan ruling at the Denver convention. Her feminist supporters are also suggesting that their heroine is the victim of "sexism." Meanwhile, if the superdelegates do give the nomination to Mrs. Clinton, many of Mr. Obama's supporters will cry "racism." The identity politics that Democrats love to use against Republicans has now come back to haunt them.
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POPSObama Wins Democrats Nomination Primary race draws to a close in South Dakota and Montana | BRIEFING BOOK (pdf) | AP: Clinton Says She's Open to Being Obama's VP | National Delegate Count Tally | Cardinal Suspends Priest From Parish After Anti-Clinton Rant
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POPSSuperdel 'Tsunami' for Obama I'm not even going to bother to keep track of the superdels as they move to Obama. McClatchy confirms 10 House members, 10 Senators, and 10 other SDs moving today. Obama needs between 30 and 40 delegates to close and these numbers, with expected numbers from primaries, would put him over the top.
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POPSOBAMA CLINCHES! According to AP, Obama clinches democratic nomination with a flood of superdelegates today.
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POPSClinton-Obama, continues? "I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about "whitey" describe it as "STUNNING." I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright's Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks." Personally I believe the tape is a hoax.
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POPSClinton Seeks To Go After Obama Superdelegates
to travel with her to South Dakota where she planned to campaign Monday. Rodriguez had initially supported Clinton, switched to Obama, and recently returned to her camp. Clinton, meanwhile, said she was still contemplating whether to challenge the decision by the Democratic Party's rules committee to split the Michigan delegates 69-59 in her favor. Each delegate would have a half vote. The agreement granted Obama 55 uncommitted Michigan delegates and four who would have been assigned to Clinton based on the state's results. McAuliffe Sunday night called the panel's judgment "outrageous." "People are angry," he said. "This does not unify our party, this crazy, cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan." Here in South Dakota, Clinton pressed on against the odds. In a campaign trail reunion usually reserved for election nights, she was to join former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, at her last Monday event in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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POPSDelegate Breakdown Only two states remain -- both Montana and S. Dakota favor Obama. Seriously, this thing is over.
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POPSScary statistics for Obama supporters Seems to me that the point of having Superdelegates was to make the wisest strategic decision if the primaries didn't result in a clear winner. Speaking objectively, you would have to think these statistics are weighing heavily on the minds of those in support of Obama.
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POPSObama Prepares for Tues. Victory Expects to clinch it next week. I found this interesting: He predicted that after the last primaries, "whatever remaining super delegates will make their decisions pretty quickly after that." "If we've got the number of delegates to secure the nomination," Obama said, "then I'm the nominee." "It is technically not over until we have the number of delegates that are needed to secure the nomination. Once we have that number, then we'll focus on the general election," he said. Marc Ambinder reported earlier this week that Obama's "banking" superdelegates -- i.e., collecting endorsements he's not announcing. It sounds to me like he's going to release that info tuesday or just after, to really hammer the victory home.
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POPSKU KLUX KLAN WON'T ENDORSE OBAMA! Excellent satire - read the whole thing! Healthcare, it is assumed, is their point of disagreement. And "Noting her strength with the broad swaths of people who have no intention of actually voting for her, Senator Clinton also feels Obama's weakness with people who hate both of them with a passion should give unpledged superdelegates pause."
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POPSPrimary 'Race Should End Next Week' In addition to this report, Marc Armbinder tells us that Obama has "begun to bank delegates" -- i.e., the campaign's holding back superdelegate announcements to put them all out in one big blow, rather than the slow leak it has been.
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POPSCarter: June 3 Time for Hillary to 'Give it Up' Carter's technically an uncommitted superdelegate, but he's been quoted as saying : Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family. We have four children with their spouses, we have 11 grandchildren, four or five of them are married, and all of them, except one, are for Obama. I think that Obama will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now and the distrust that relates to our country and its government.
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POPSIt's a Republic When will they learn, it's a Republic not a democracy. It is not about the popular vote, it's all about the states and the electoral college. And Hillary is a presidential candidate.
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POPSHillary's Seeds of self-destruction But it’s an insult to white voters as well, including white working-class voters. It’s true that there are some whites who will not vote for a black candidate under any circumstance. But the United States is in a much better place now than it was when people like Richard Nixon, George Wallace and many others could make political hay by appealing to the very worst in people, using the kind of poisonous rhetoric that Senator Clinton is using now.
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POPSObama Campaign Introduces Customized Lapel Pins Update: It's just been announced that two superdelegates from the Virgin Islands have pledged support for Obama, giving him his first-ever superdelegate lead over Clinton. Interesting timing, no? You scratch my back, I grant you statehood. Handcrafted by Flip at 07:49 PM | Permalink |
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POPSHillary's Bitter Victory Is there any relief in sight? When will this thing end? The short answer to this question is no, there isn't. Watching this scene, I was struck suddenly by the genius of the Clinton campaign — and also felt myself beginning to understand why this Obama-Clinton contest may yet prove to be one of those defining cultural clashes that come along once a generation or so, like Bryan-Darrow or Ali-Frazier. what we have in Hillary Clinton: a once-in-a-generation political pugilist who, like her much smoother adversary, is amazingly capable of turning weakness into strength. Pitted against physical beauty and inspirational rhetoric, Hillary made herself the champion of everything stylistically ordinary, superficially unimpressive and ignored. And while her opponent won all the attention and admiration, all the teen-idol gushings of the beautiful people, she went for something deeper — resentment at the lack of those same things.
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