Senator Hillary Clinton's expected win in West Virginia Tuesday set off a new and enormous round of donations to Senator Barack Obama from supporters nationwide connecting on the BarackObama.com website.
It started with Brad over at the www.obamavolunteercorps.org website who sent out this note:
We all expected Senator Clinton to win.
Although to celebrate her victory I think I will donate $10.00 to Senator Obama.
Who's with me?
www.barackobama.com/contribute
-Brad
Obama Volunteer Corps
www.obamavolunteercorps.org
..and it spread from there, with people matching the $20 donations of others.
Many Obama supporters were energized by what seemed to be an openly racist way of campaigning to people in West Virginia who seemed, well, openly racist. Personally, I think West Virginia's the land the time forgot, but they're a part of America and we have to take care of them. Still, it does not excuse the open racism down there.
And what the hell was John Edwards' name doing on the ballot? He took 7 percent of the vote from Obama, and he's out of the race. That smells -- bad.
The fact remains: Senator Obama picked up more Superdelegates than Clinton will gain in delegates from the West Virginia primary, plus, Obama too gets a share of delegates, eight to be exact, while Clinton gets 20. Senator Obama is now just 146 delegates away from victory as of this writing.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Native American Superdelegate Endorses Barack Obama
Kalyn Free...
is a superdelegate and at-large member of the Democratic National Committee. Free, who has endorsed Senator Barack Obama's bid for the nomination of the Democratic party today, is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and the founder and President of Indigenous Democratic Network's (INDN) List, an organization dedicated to training and recruiting Native American political candidates. Obama has shown considerable sensitivity to the issues of First/Native Americans, and appears to be the only candidate with a Tribal Leaders Steering Committee actively participating on the campaign.read more | digg story
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Senator Barack Obama : The Best Choice For President
Laurie and Awais are two Superdelegates who are the heads of the national college democrats, and have asked for comments on who they should select as President of the United States. My choice is Senator Barack Obama and I state why in this video. More here soon.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Slate Delegate Calculator Shows Obama Lead Even With Clinton Wins
The sheer power of Senator Barack Obama's eleven straight primary wins and its impact on the delegate race can be seen just by using Slate's Delegate Calculator. It's an online device where one can test how overall or specific state-by-state percentage wins effect the overall delegate race.
I've found that even if Senator Clinton were to win all of the remaining contests by an average of 10 percent for each state, including today's "Super Tuesday" primaries -- a total of 16 primaries and contests -- Senator Obama would still hold an overall lead in pledged delegates, but need 392 superdelegates to reach 2,025.
Right now, he has 208 Superdelegates.
Now, think about this. Even if Clinton WON each -- each state -- from now on and by an average of 10 percent, Obama would still have the lead in delegates 1,633 to 1,576.
That's why there's so much pressure for Clinton to get out of the race. There's no realistic scenario where Clinton could win all of the states and have the delegate lead. The only one is totally unrealistic and that's for Clinton to win 60 to 40 in all of the remaining states, including today. That means she would have to see a 20 point average win.
That's not going to happen.
Now what would happen if Senator Obama won each state by an average of 10 percent? (Something more likely than the Clinton example.) Then Obama would have 1,732 delegates, with Clinton at 1,477 delegates; Obama needs 293 Superdelegates; he has 208 now.
That means if 95 undeclared Superdelegates move to back Obama, it's over under this scenario.
Obama By Four?
OK. So what if Obama won by a four percent average in each primary and caucus, including today's events? Then Obama would need 323 Superdelegates; since he has 208 as of this writing, then 125 undeclared Superdelegates would have to back Obama.
According to MSNBC, Obama's campaign says they have 50 Superdelegates ready to back Obama. If they all sign up, that means he only needs 75 more to support him and it's over. This may be the most likely outcome of all. At least we should consider it a benchmark.
I've found that even if Senator Clinton were to win all of the remaining contests by an average of 10 percent for each state, including today's "Super Tuesday" primaries -- a total of 16 primaries and contests -- Senator Obama would still hold an overall lead in pledged delegates, but need 392 superdelegates to reach 2,025.
Right now, he has 208 Superdelegates.
Now, think about this. Even if Clinton WON each -- each state -- from now on and by an average of 10 percent, Obama would still have the lead in delegates 1,633 to 1,576.
That's why there's so much pressure for Clinton to get out of the race. There's no realistic scenario where Clinton could win all of the states and have the delegate lead. The only one is totally unrealistic and that's for Clinton to win 60 to 40 in all of the remaining states, including today. That means she would have to see a 20 point average win.
That's not going to happen.
Now what would happen if Senator Obama won each state by an average of 10 percent? (Something more likely than the Clinton example.) Then Obama would have 1,732 delegates, with Clinton at 1,477 delegates; Obama needs 293 Superdelegates; he has 208 now.
That means if 95 undeclared Superdelegates move to back Obama, it's over under this scenario.
Obama By Four?
OK. So what if Obama won by a four percent average in each primary and caucus, including today's events? Then Obama would need 323 Superdelegates; since he has 208 as of this writing, then 125 undeclared Superdelegates would have to back Obama.
According to MSNBC, Obama's campaign says they have 50 Superdelegates ready to back Obama. If they all sign up, that means he only needs 75 more to support him and it's over. This may be the most likely outcome of all. At least we should consider it a benchmark.
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