Bloomberg: Obama Cuts Into Clinton's Delegate Lead Among Elected Officials

[Eugene]

Source: Bloomberg

Obama Cuts Into Clinton's Delegate Lead Among Elected Officials

By Julianna Goldman and Catherine Dodge

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has pulled almost
even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected
officials and has cut into her lead among the other
superdelegates she's relying on to win the Democratic
presidential nomination.

Among the 313 of 796 superdelegates who are members of
Congress or governors, Clinton has commitments from 103
and Obama is backed by 96, according to lists supplied
by the campaigns. Fifty-three of Obama's endorsements
have come since he won the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses,
compared with 12 who have aligned with Clinton since then.

“That's not glacial, that is a remarkable momentum,”
Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, a superdelegate and
Obama supporter, said in an interview. “I don't think
there is anything that will slow that down.”

-snip-

Both sides agree her chance to win the nomination rests
on winning a significant majority of superdelegates
because Obama is likely to maintain a lead of at least
150 pledged delegates - - those won in primaries and
caucuses -- after the last contest is finished. If he
does, Clinton, 60, would have to snag more than 70
percent of the remaining 334 or so superdelegates.

-snip-

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[MagickMuffin]

1. I certainly hope that lead keeps growing

At this point and time I think Hillary has done a lot of damage that could cost us the GE.

If she somehow pulls off the nomination I fear a large number of people would sit it out, from progressives, to liberals, to the black community.

We've seen how Barack has managed to get people interested in voting. All the new people who have found their way out of not wanting to participate to doing just that, becoming part of the process. If they think that she overstepped her boundaries and they feel she took the nomination away from the front runner, they will not care to elect her to the White House.

Hopefully the SD will recognize this as well.

[BringBigDogBack]

2. "If she somehow pulls off the nomination I fear a large number of people would sit it out,"

You're not too far off with that one.

There is no way in shit I would ever support tha campaign after seeing it's tactics. No. Fucking. Way.

[MagickMuffin]

3. I feel the same way, I don't want to vote for her..........

But I also realize that there is more at stake if I don't.

And I hate that she has put me in that situation. I would have been excited to vote for whoever got the nomination. I don't feel that way anymore. She didn't have to go down the path she chose to go down, and now that she has there is a certain amount of anxiety she has caused among a lot of people.

If it weren't for our aging Supreme Court, I wouldn't be as concerned.:cry:

[BringBigDogBack]

4. I know how feel, Magick.

I, too, had to draw the line somewhere.

They obliterated it. Go figure.

[BearSquirrel2]

5. I'd bite down hard ...

I would bite down hard and vote for her. But I'm not sending her any money.

The Florida and Michigan delegates will NOT be included in the count. Dean won't back down and if he gets overruled, the Obama camp will have the law on their side. That's why Hillary CANNOT sue.

She is planning to head to Denver with a big pile of jobs to dole out part private, part public and a whole lot of threats. They will muscle and cajole every delegate they possibly can with every bit of influence they have amassed. Hillary Clinton sickens me. I see her sliding down the Rove slope. I wouldn't be surprised if she started threatening political prosecutions to delegates who will not break for her after the first ballot.

[RoadRage]

6. I really don't think it will matter..

If she only wins the nomination with the Super Delegates - it won't matter if you or I go to the polls. Your average Joe who isn't a political junkie and who doesn't think about this election in terms of judicial nominees, etc... well he will be staying home. If Hillary "steals" this - there is no way she can win. You & I can begrudgingly go to the polls in persuit of the greater good.. but we'll be out numbered by millions of regular Obama supporters that dispise Clinton and won't vote for her anyway.

The only shot we have at winning this election is if Obama gets the nod soon, and Clinton stops throwing him under the bus. He has more states, delegates and the popular vote. What more do people want?