Week of June 1, 2008 - June 7, 2008
June 4, 2008, 11:58AM
Using Hillary's metric, if Florida and Michigan are counted fully the delegate needed to win increases to 2210. Here is how the number change if the FL/MI delegates were fully seated.
...... Total Delegates
..........Obama.......Clinton
Delegates 2156 ....... 1923
From FL ... 39 ......... 52
From MI ... 29 ......... 35
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Total ... 2224 ....... 2010
Obama is over the top with 14 extra votes. According to politico there are 117 uncommitted delegates. If Hillary got 100% percent of the remaining SD she would end up with 2127 or is 83 delegates short of the winning total.
Over the past 4 weeks, since the NC and IN primaries, Obama got a net gain of 76 new delegates, not counting yesterday's flood, and Hillary's net gain was 16. That is almost a 5 to 1 margin in Obama's favor. Yesterday Obama gained 63 new delegates, 8 of which swithced form Clinton to Obama.
The Delegates were not buying Hillary's arguments, that she should be the nominee even while she was winning West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico in a landslide.
June 3, 2008, 11:08PM
Someone please show me
How hard working whites won't support Obama?
How Hillary won the popular vote?
How she became the "every vote must count" advocate of FL/MI voters who before her South Carolina loss, she had agreed wouldn't count?
How not acknowledging a primary loss is a good strategy.
How using Republican talking points against your democratic colleague enhances the democratic party
How slicing up the democratic demographics to divide and exploit democrats is a good thing for the party and the country.
How losing to Barack, makes her the better general election candidate?
How Barack, who foresaw 6 years ago the Iraq fiasco, hasn't pass the commander-in-chief threshold?
How her so-called non-support of NAFTA isn't an example of Clintonian "having it both ways?"
How giving Americans a gas tax holiday worth as much as $28 and more likely $0 is a good idea?
How voting for a congressional bill entitled "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002"
isn't voting for an authorization to go to war?
How voting for that bill without reading it entitles her to be taken seriously?
How a poorly run primary campaign speaks well of her ability to run the country?
Please someone show me how Hillary won 18 million?
June 3, 2008, 9:54PM
McCain asks, "Why is Obama repeating over and over again that McCain is running for President Bush's third term?" His response is that "because it is very difficult to get the american public to believe something that is not true."
Straight talk? Obama's attack have put McCain on the defensive, and his addressing of Obama's "third term" comments prove that Obama has drawn blood.
In McCain's speech tonight, McCains underlying theme is Obama's special interest, position on taxes and military inexperience, "is not change we can believe in." He claims that Obama's does not have the judgement to run the country. The MSNBC punditry is excited about McCain's speech tonight. They claim it was his best speech yet. But in the background you could hear a small crowd, and the voices of operatives in the audience who are cheering the audience on in responding to his McCain's comments. I think it comes off phoney. Sure, a large percentage of the electorate will believe McCain's political comments. But I don't it will play well with the majority of the electorate.
So far, McCain seems weak and unable to effectively respond to Obama's repeated jabs. And consider McCain's verbal gaffes that Obama has yet to take advantage of. Finally, McCains repeated use of his war experience so early in the campaign seems desperate. It is as if his war experience entitles him to something that Obama doesn't deserve.
June 2, 2008, 10:45PM
Obama's SD today
Connecticut Democratic State Party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo
-Virginia DNC member Jerome Wiley Segovia of Virginia.
-Michigan Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence.
-Michigan Education Association President Lu Battaglieri.
-Jerome Wiley Segovia of Fairfax County, a member of the Democratic party's Rules and Bylaws Committee
-DNC member and Florida Democratic Party Secretary Janee Murphy
-Washington state superdelegate David McDonald
-House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn will endorse tommorow
Obama needs 41.5 delegates to clinch.
Clinton received two endorsements today.
-Louisiana Democratic State Party Chair Chris Whittington
-Irene Stein, the chair of the Democratic party in Tompkins County, New York
