If you need to know the actual number of delegates that the DNC is currently allocating to Florida and Michigan, please see this document:


http://www.democrats.org/page/-/pdf/20080515_allocation1pgr.pdf

Me, I see goose eggs on the FL and MI lines on the chart...

The DNC total Delegate Votes = 4050.
Number of delegate votes needed for nomination (rounded) = 2026

Posted at May 19, 2008 9:57 PM in response to Hillary Clinton: you lost. Get the F**** over it

Ah, but Barack is not the Scottish King. He is, I think, of Welsh descent:

Enter the NOMINEE
Plouffe. O that we now had here

    But one ten thousand of those men in Texas

    That do no work to-day!


  
NOMINEE. What's he that wishes so?

    My cousin Plouffe? No, my fair cousin;

    If we are mark'd to die, we are enow

    To do our country loss; and if to live,

    The fewer men, the greater share of honour.


    God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

    By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,

    Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;

    It yearns me not if men my garments wear;

    Such outward things dwell not in my desires.

    But if it be a sin to covet honour,

    I am the most offending soul alive.

    No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from Texas.


    God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour

    As one man more methinks would share from me

    For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!


    Rather proclaim it, Plouffe, through my host,

    That he which hath no stomach to this fight,

    Let him depart; his passport shall be made,

    And crowns for convoy put into his purse;

    We would not die in that man's company

    That fears his fellowship to die with us.


    This day is call'd the feast of Franklin.

    He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,

    Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,

    And rouse him at the name of Franklin.

    He that shall live this day, and see old age,

    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,

    And say 'To-morrow is Saint Franklin.'

    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,

    And say 'These wounds I had on Franklin’s day.'


    Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,

    But he'll remember, with advantages,

    What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,

    Familiar in his mouth as household words-

    Barack the Nominee, Burton and Axelrod,

    Rouse and Gibbs, Nesbitt and Hildebrand-

    Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.


    This story shall the good man teach his son;

    And Franklin Franklian shall ne'er go by,

    From this day to the ending of the world,

    But we in it shall be remembered-


    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,

    This day shall gentle his condition;

    And gentlemen in Texas now-a-bed

    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,

    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

    That fought with us upon Saint Franklin's day.

Posted at April 25, 2008 10:53 PM in response to I've Made A Decision

Um, a Demon Queen

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1210

Hilary Clinton (Demon Queen of Pork Belly Futures.) (Lesser Goddess.)
FREQUENCY: Very rare
NO APPEARING: 1
ARMOUR CLASS: -7 (But -4 if encountered in the same campaign as a Bill Clinton)
MOVE: 3″ (72″ per flight sector on the campaign jet)
HIT DICE: 200 hit points (But first you have to defeat 4d8 Secret Service Agents)
% IN LAIR: 0%
TREASURE TYPE: The future is … Pork!
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1 + 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: captures 2-16 superdelegates; 20% chance to cast Slime per round
SPECIAL ATTACKS: If sustaining damage, 33% chance per round of invoking Bill Clinton to fight alongside her. See also Big Dog.)
SPECIAL DEFENSES: +4 Fundraising, Regeneration, +3 or better weapon to hit.
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 80%
INTELLIGENCE: Genius
CHARISMA: 17 (Democrats)/ -1 (Republicans)
ALIGNMENT: Lawful Neutral (Will steal anything that’s not nailed down, especially if she can construe it as lawful appropriation. Depending on the meaning of the word “it”.)
SIZE: 14
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: X/12,250* (* for impeachment) As with all Clintons, Hillary exudes negative charisma towards Republicans. Otherwise, she’s a classic machine reptile.

Posted at March 25, 2008 2:55 PM in response to Hillary: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor"

A google trick that you can use to search TPM is to use the "site" option. Example below:

"Posted by LookingIn" site:talkingpointsmemo.com

Put that in to a google search, and you will see all posts by (in this example) LookingIn.

Note that there is no space between "site:" and "talkingpointsmemo.com".

This trick works for winnowing searches to a particular domain anywhere in the web.

Cheers,

Ott

Posted at March 19, 2008 4:38 PM in response to Marginalize Marginal Player

I am a supporter of Obama, and I deplore Hillary's recent barrage of negative campaigning. That said, I have a great deal of respect for the argument that you make. My mother was, in the mid-seventies, a rabble rousing union organizer. She organized and led one of the first unionized shops for registered nurses in the country. In the past twenty years, she has swung so far to the right that we can no longer discuss politics without rancor and pain.

In 2000, and again in 2004 I made my simple case for voting democrat over republican, and I make it in concurrence with your opinion here. Long Term Matters. Think about our Judicial System and the Environment. I would rather see a President who will most likely come down on the liberal side in the judiciary and on the environment's side over big business.

That's it. Now, Cheney's imperial reign with his Presidential Sock Puppet has disabused notions of what an executive branch can get away with if they simply ignore one branch (legislative) of government and stuff the other branch (judicial) with politicoreligious activists. Even more reason to get behind both the eventual nominee of the Democrats (Please please not Hillary) but no matter who it is we MUST STOP the right wing ultra conservative growth within our society.

Frankly, I became an Obama supporter because I thought (and still do) that he has a better chance of beating a republican than Hillary. Hillary just brings too many anti-Hillary votes to the polls. Obama has a chance to shake things up.

Since joining the Obama campaign I have come to believe in Barack's message, and I fervently hope that we can, as a country, bring enough energy to Washington to shake the establishment a bit and see some ability to do great works. But we cannot do this if we alienate our sisters and brothers of any race, class, age or political persuasion.

Find ways to express your support for Barack in positive ways, and to counter Hillary in positive ways as well. We need to shift the debate from "Who is ready to be commander in chief?" to "Who is ready to lead this country?" Who is ready to bring people together, not in a spirit of cynicism and fear, but in a spirit of determination, grit, and hope. We must dedicate ourselves to work hard in order that sacrifices we make now will benefit our country and our children.

We must deliver our country from the disaster that the right wing bestows upon us. There will be negative attacks from reactionaries throughout our efforts and we need to prepare for them. What will we answer when we are accused of 'redistributing wealth', a typical reactionary response to progressive taxation and social and public works spending? I say that we need to be prepared to counter this with oratory decrying the Bush administration's redistribution of wealth from our country's needs for public infrastructure, education and health care into the pockets of a burgeoning defense industry.

Ah... I've begun ranting... Simple message...

Keep the faith, keep the energy, and bring it all to bear to defeat John McCain. We must win back our nation.

Ott Out

Posted at March 8, 2008 2:54 PM in response to Younger Dems, Hillary Haters, LISTEN UP!

Sorry for the formatting faux-pas!

All of the links work except the Texas Republican Race. Corrected link is here:

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_state.htm

Posted at March 4, 2008 5:45 PM in response to Official Results Sites for March 4 Primaries