And the Democratic Nominee Will Be?
Kentucky and Oregon have their primaries today and many believe the former first lady will take the Bluegrass State while the Illinois Senator wins the Beaver State. At stake are 51 convention delegates in the former and 52 in the latter. Going into it, Senator Obama has 1,917 delegates to Senator Clinton's 1,722 of the 2,026 needed to become the Democratic nominee. The only remaining primaries are Puerto Rico on June 1st and South Dakota and Montana on June 3rd.
Even with a split victory for either candidate--although both contests today are proportional and thus like soccer for little kids where everyone gets a trophy, it is a mathematical victory of sorts for Obama. Since his Iowa caucus win back on January 3rd, he will have won a majority of the delegates at stake in the 56 contests and will celebrate the moment at a rally in the Hawkeye State tonight.
Even with a split victory for either candidate--although both contests today are proportional and thus like soccer for little kids where everyone gets a trophy, it is a mathematical victory of sorts for Obama. Since his Iowa caucus win back on January 3rd, he will have won a majority of the delegates at stake in the 56 contests and will celebrate the moment at a rally in the Hawkeye State tonight.
By day's end, Obama expects to have locked up a majority of the pledged delegates to the party's national convention. Though not assuring Obama of the nomination in August, the achievement would signal that victory is near in his hard-fought battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton. - Nicholas Riccardi and Stuart Silverstein, LA Times, 5/20/08.
Labels: 2oo8 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, hillary clinton
Posted by Edward Headington @ 5/20/2008 03:01:00 PM
8 Comments:
I'm really, really glad that you didn't write something obviously self-serving like "BREAKIN NEWS Hillary Clinton wins Kentucky."
It is true that she won, but it's not true that you break anything other than local stuff on this blog.
I love the blog, but keep it honest. Otherwise, it shows.
I think it’s over for Senator Hillary, but the only loser in this primary will be Mayor Villaraigosa for endorsing Hillary Rod.
If an American woke from a coma after 50 years and saw those images you posted he'd think this country was occupied by the Soviet Union.
Don't tell that to AlarCON, 8:53, he'll rush out with his Marxist flag to help Reyes annex the westside!
Why'd you remove the photo and comment? What's the matter with you, Head Up? That was an official campaign photo -- and what was wrong with the comment? If you're only going to run pieces and comments that are PR for your work, forget it, you should go somewhere else.
Go to a PR blog for Alarcon or Reyes.
Anon 2:40,
Not sure what you're talking about. Truth be told, I leave the moderating to others. I did, however, submit a comment late in the evening and noticed it's not here. Will look into it. Here's what I said:
Here's my initial thought to Anon 8:53. There's an interesting piece by William Booth from Sunday's Washington Post on the creater of the Obama poster (street artist and guerrilla marketer), Shepard Fairey.
And the Democratic Nominee Will Be?
The losing candidate in the general in November. Count on it -- once again.
They just don't get it. They will always allow the fringe elements to pick their front-runner and continue to just miss retaking the White House, despite being the numeric large political party.
The GOP learned in 1964.
The Dems never have.
And, we thank you, DNC, for being predictably short-sighted and fractionally narcissistic.
The "big tent" is a facade for a horribly dysfunctional field of little tiny tents that create one loisng under-majority coalition after another.
Fer cryin' out loud, we elected GEORGE W. over two of what they proclaimed to be their best and brightest.
How hard can this be?
11:54 is absolutely right: Hello, Pres. McCain. The Dems won't listen to Hillary, that she's the most electable precisely because she isn't the darling of the fringe left -- she's carried every big, industrial and multi-cultural state, while Obama gets NH, VT, CT and Oregon. And the predominantly black Southern states. Uh, huh...
Yeah, we got dubya because Gore was a bore -- and what's his policy doing for us now? All this ethanol has meant a global food shortage, higher food prices for the rest of us, while he still jets around and plays games with "energy credits."
IF we HAD signed Kyoto as he wanted we'd be even more heavily penalized and paying $8.00/ gallon for gas, if we were allowed to use it at all, while China, India and the wildly developing "Third World" are exempt and can keep polluting until they "catch up" the the west in per capita (not GNP) -- a little game that favors them because of the huge discrepencies in wealth.
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