As more finite results from Super Tuesday's voting come in, some are predicting that Barack Obama will come out on top of the delegate race. Hillary Clinton won the big prize in California, but, according to NBC News, he'll likely end up with 840-849 delegates to Hillary Clinton's 829-838. The Clinton campaign is still crunching numbers, but the Obama campaign has sent out his statement:
“Obama wins Super Tuesday by winning more states and more delegates.”
Campaign Manager David Plouffe said: “By winning a majority of delegates and a majority of the states, Barack Obama won an important Super Tuesday victory over Sen. Clinton in the closest thing we have to a national primary.”
“From Colorado and Utah in the West to Georgia and Alabama in the South to Sen. Clinton’s backyard in Connecticut, Obama showed that he can win the support of Americans of every race, gender and political party in every region of the country,” Plouffe said. “That’s why he’s on track to win Democratic nomination, and that’s why he’s the best candidate to defeat John McCain in November.”
The Obama campaign attached an Excel spreadsheet containing “state-by-state estimates of the pledged delegates we won last night, which total 845 for Obama and 836 for Clinton — bringing the to-date total of delegates to 908 for Obama, 884 for Clinton.”
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Don't count your chickens… Colorado, Utah, Georgia and Alabama are red states as any election night coverage enthusiast can tell you.
From a strategy POV, it's the ability to get more votes than the republican nominee in the swing states, especially those with the most electoral votes: PA (21), FL (27) and OH (20). It wouldn't be too too hard for the Dems to win PA. The blue states are gimmes. The Dem nominee will win those regardless. With people moving from NOLA, LA is going to the Republicans. As I've said before, the divide in the Democratic party will result in their downfall yet again come November regardless of who the winner is.
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what divide in the democratic party? the fact that there's a healthy debate over whether obama or hil should be our next president? other than that, there really is no divide. clinton and obama have nearly identical platforms. although i'm an obama supporter, i certainly don't think that my needs and interests won't be attended to if hil gets the nomination. the republicans are far more divided, and on fundamental ideological differences at that. the democrats seem to be united on the key issues.
the fact that Obama supporters say they won't vote for Hillary and Hillary supporters say they wont vote for Obama. I've heard this repeatedly in my family, from my friends and online. There is a divide. Republicans are going to vote for whoever wins the nomination if only to keep a pro-choice person who will tax them out of office.
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There are many, many Republicans who say they won't vote for McCain. And although I don't believe all of the conservatives who say this, I also certainly don't believe all the Dems who say they won't vote for Obama or Hillary when push comes to shove and we're facing the possibility of a McCain/Huckabee administration.
According to CNN Hillary is leading in delegates by a slim margin. Obama is spinning everytime he opens his mouth, despite the fact that the official count is'nt even in yet.
The race is far from over.
Hmm. I've heard that a lot of Romney recently but not McCain, Lauren. I live in New England though. We're in our own little bubble and most of the blogs I read are NY based. All the people I discuss politics with are on the east coast and none are south of D.C. I shouldn't assume that these views (which are also what's put out by the media) is representative of what's going on in the rest of the country.
It looks like it's going to be McCain which is better than Huckabee. If Huckabee wins the republican nomination, the Dems have a better chance of getting the swing states. Still, I'd prefer McCain to Huckabee because hey, if McCain wins, it's the same ol shit. If Huckabee wins, things will worsen at a faster pace. That's not a chance I'm willing to take though come election day. I could vote for Romney, but not McCain or Huckabee. At this point, I'm guessing I'll be voting against the republicans and I'm an independent, but what will the other independents and moderates do? We decide the election.
Okay. No more politics for forty days and forty nights. Lalalalala. :X I'm breaking my Lenten promise. No more. I'll just find out who wins the nomination when that happens but nothing else.
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This is interesting…I like both of them…I have issues with both of them as well….and will be happy with either as the Democratic nominee. I have my preference, of course, but in my mind, being pro one doesn't necessitate being anti the other.
ps…good job on News and Notes today Lauren….