Obama overtakes lead in superdelegates for first time
Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.
Obama added superdelegates from Utah, Ohio and Arizona, as well as two from the Virgin Islands who had previously backed Clinton. The additions enabled Obama to surpass Clinton's total for the first time in the campaign. He had picked up nine endorsements Friday.
The milestone is important because Clinton would need to win over the superdelegates by a wide margin to claim the nomination. They are a group that Clinton owned before the first caucus, when she was able to cash in on the popularity of the Clinton brand among the party faithful.
Those party insiders, however, have been steadily streaming to Obama since he started posting wins in early voting states.
"I always felt that if anybody establishes himself as the clear leader, the superdelegates would fall in line," said Don Fowler, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
"It is perceived that he is the leader," said Fowler, a superdelegate from South Carolina who supports Clinton. "The trickle is going to become an avalanche."
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Posted By: Jammetrymon @ 05/11/2008 11:36:52 PM
Comment: If this were a chess game, Obama still has his Queen, both Rooks, a Bishop, one Knight and a pawn. Hillary has only one Bishop left. When Hillary beats Obama in West Virginia, she will have captured Obama's remaining pawn, and nothing more. After next weeks Kentucky and Oregan primaries, the parties will have exchanged their remaining Bishops, and Hillary will have no choice but to resign. Hillary supporters may get excited about her victory in WV.. But even the 8 measley delegates (to Hillary's 20) that Obama picks up, will put him within a move or two from Checkmate. Watch for Check, then Mate in Oregon. Good game Hillary!
Obama/Boxer 08
Posted By: Jrmapu @ 05/11/2008 9:35:23 PM
Comment: Hi glimps. Hillary will not put herself on the ballot without the backing of the party. She is not stupid. How dare people think she is. She is keeping true to her word. Every vote will count and the democratic party will be united. Since she will be the second place finisher, it will happen. That is something many (especially recent democratic voters) seem to forget. She is true to her word. She will back up the nominee even if that nominee is Obama. Obama knows this that is why he really do not want to make waves with Hillary. She never said she would not support the nominee. The Obama supporters have been calling her and everyone of her supporters idiots, warmongers, bigots, etc. Why? Because we don't believe in Obama and we are going over to McCain.
I think your numbers are off. But thats okay. Either way the future president will have bitten off more than they can chew
And yes my sentiment exactly, good luck to all everyone's candidates. This will be a very muddy one. With all the closet secrets. Only McCain's have been exposed, Obama's have yet to surface fully.
Posted By: Nins @ 05/11/2008 4:48:16 PM
Comment: Bravo to Obama, for reversing the tide of the superdelgates and overtaking Clinton, whose campaign style has shown us how little she deserves to be our leader. Hillary is playing politics, the worst kind of low-ball politics.
I am white, and female, and middle aged, and Republican, and I am voting for OBAMA.
Hillary insults both women and whites when she asserts that we are all both racist and stupid.
Get a life, Hillary, and stop pandering to the least common denominator. One of the reasons I am disaffected from the Republican party is because of the way they have tried to manipulate the gun-toting bible-thumping undereducated electorate.
A true leader will unite people around a higher cause, not divide them along lines of distrust and hatred.
Obama is a true leader, and a true Christian. Anyone who can't see this is falling victim to media manipulation. Hillary is imitating the tactics that dragged the once-proud GOP into the mud, and away from the hearts and minds of millions of thinking Republicans.
I still uphold Republican values. The good old-fashioned ones that founded our republic. And I am voting for Obama, who is truest to these values, despite his liberal ideas.