John Nichols: Obama's Super Tuesday

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Obama's Super Tuesday
posted by John Nichols on 06/03/2008 @ 07:42am


"It's time," said U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, the senior Democratic workhorse from Wisconsin who had resisted making an endorsement in the race for the party's presidential nomination out of a desire to maintain productive relations with colleagues Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Kohl, after more than a few consultations with Obama, will announce his position this week, and perhaps even today.

The same goes for a dozens of other Democratic National Convention super-delegates who during the course of the final day of the party's long primary season will endorse the senator from Illinois.

The Obama campaign, which has been accused of not being able to "close the deal" in the race for the nomination, is orchestrating a massive push to do just that on what they hope will be their real "Super Tuesday."

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For his part, Obama is more than ready to turn the page and begin the next chapter of the tale of 2008.

"I emphasize that tomorrow is the last of the contests and the sooner that we bring the party together," the senator says. "The sooner we can begin focusing on beating John McCain."