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Obama moves on to the general election: Barack The Vote

This Saturday Obama is starting a 50 state voter registration drive.  It is time to take back power from the corrupt idiots in the government.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGCNDt

Pet Pev about how percentages are counted

So in NC Obama has about 56.7 percent of the vote which is most likely to go up slightly due to votes in pro Obama areas not done counting. Such as my home county of Mecklenburg which went 7-3 Obama.  Hillary got about 41.8 of the vote which is most likely go down slightly due to what i said above.  So what does the media do?  They round down for Obama to 56 and round up for Hillary to 42 and round down the undecided vote of like 1.5 or something to 1.  

Who else sees this uneven math as BS?  They are not using the same calculations to determine the percentages. The most accurate way to put it IMO would be to have it 57-42. When all the counting is done however the most accurate might be 57-42-1  which is a least a 15 point difference NOT A 14.  Its so dam annoying how they are using different ways of rounding in different states.  In PA they rounded Obama down and Clinton up to change it from 9 to 10 and in NC they are round Obama down and Clinton up to make it a 14 point instead of 15. 

56.7 -  41.8 = 14.9   yet it is a 14 point win for Obama not 15.  and PA was a 9.3 or w/e win for Hillary and it gets bumped up to 10....   WTF!!!

From a CNN article on their main page "Obama held a 14-point lead over Clinton"   Even though CNN's own numbers say its a 15-point lead.


/rant


Gregs comment on Obama meeting with Fox spreads to Wired

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/obama-distanc-1.html

Reminds me of the telephone game.

SurveyUSA: North Carolina in Every Respect the Opposite of Pennsylvania

"North Carolina in Every Respect the Opposite of Pennsylvania: On the
day Pennsylvania Democrats vote in a primary that has seen opinion
polls fluctuate wildly on how big her possible win might be, North
Carolina Democratic Primary voters are steady-steady, and not with
Clinton on top, but Obama. Obama's advantage has fluctuated
imperceptibly, or not at all, in four tracking polls conducted over the
past 90 days. Today, 14 days till NC votes are counted, Obama leads by
9 points. In five previous tracking polls, going back to before the
Michigan Primary, Obama's lead has been 4 points, 10 points, 8 points,
10 points. NC men are stable. NC women are stable. Voters under age 50
are stable. Voters age 50+ are stable. Black voters are stable. White
voters are stable. Charlotte voters are stable. Moderates are stable.
Registered Democrats are stable. Unaffiliated voters are stable." 
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=7e1ed059-9ef0-4a2c-a2a6-3cbef8ca9803


In NC the AA vote is expected to be over 40 percent.
In NC the 18-34 vote is expected to be higher then the 65+ vote, very different then PA.   
The amount of voters who have college education in the democratic primary in NC is also much higher in NC.  There has been a large increase in voter registration in the last few months, mainly with AA and the youth vote.   
Many polls are showing Obama running just slightly under Hillary with white voters overall. 

So with High AA and Youth and Educated = Obama wins, it also helps that pretty much everyone has endorsed Obama in NC.

Todays Gallup Obama 49, Hillary 42



The video of the speech given last night in front of 35,000

It speaks for itself.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QORZY11IHMo

I ask you this question though.  How the hell is McCain going to be able to stand against Obama's support? 

Obama's Donor Ticker is back

It seems the Obama website has put the donor counter back on its website with the goal of 1.5 million donors by May 6th. It currently is at 1.3 million donors.

Washington Post Article about the tax returns

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403927.html?hpid=topnews
Nicely sums up the facts.

Carter Endorsement Incoming?

 Saw a post at Huffington that linked to this article in the spam of the headline comment section figure I knock it over here.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=107611
" Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter has hinted that he
might cast his vote for Senator Barack Obama to aid his emergence as
the candidate for the Democrats in America’s bid to elect a new
President.
Carter, who is a Super Delegate from Georgia State, gave
this hint at a media interaction after the Carter Center Awards for
Guinea Worm Eradication in Abuja yesterday.
Carter, who was
accompanied by his wife Rosalynn, did not profess a direct support for
Obama but rather choose to make a veiled statement.
“We are very
interested in the primaries. Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of
Georgia. My town which is home to 625 people is for Obama, my children
and their spouses are pro- Obama.
My grandchildren are also pro-
Obama. As a Super Delegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for
but I leave you to make that guess," he said."

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