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Monthly Archives: February 2008 - Page 2
Larry Lessig on “electability” in the General Election
Posted by ryptide
on February 13, 2008
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Big Weekend for Obama
Posted by ryptide
on February 11, 2008
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Nebraska
Obama: 68%
Clinton: 32%
Louisiana
Obama: 57%
Clinton: 36%
Washington
Obama: 68%
Clinton: 31%
Maine
Obama: 59%
Clinton: 40%
US Virgin Islands (Edit: I had forgotten the US Virgin Islands)
Obama: 89.9%
Clinton: 7.6%
(sources: CNN Politics and The Guardian)
And, he won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream, beating former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Keep that momentum going! Tuesday is DC, Maryland and Virginia. I’ll be phone banking at Obama HQ in DC tomorrow night and canvassing Tuesday as well. The race is still very tight, but I’m hoping that it is a fair assessment that Obama has the momentum and will pull this thing off. CNN and MSNBC have two different totals, including or not including the superdelegates. I’m hoping this recent momentum is swaying some superdelegates that will ultimately vote with their states…
Democratic Delegates
Posted by ryptide
on February 7, 2008
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As I write this, CNN has Clinton ahead of Obama by a margin of 82 delegates. MSNBC has Obama ahead of Clinton by 4 delegates.
Either way, it’s a very, very tight race, with many, many delegates still unaccounted for including some superdelegates. This thing could go undecided all the way to the convention, and be settled in a back room deal with a handful of superdelegates. Chairman of the National Committee, Howard Dean has indicated that if this seems to be the case, he will try to get the candidates to meet and resolve something beforehand, rather than have a fight lasting to the convention and making an easy target for Republicans.
I’m not sure I agree with Dean, however. The Republicans will solidify their candidate quickly, and will quickly rally behind him. The longer the Democrats take to choose a candidate, the more time the Republican machine has to wait before ramping up the personal attacks on one candidate. That means less time to run negative campaign ads against a Democratic candidate — though they have already been treating Clinton as the nominee and targeting her from that side of the aisle. The GOP is basically chomping at the bit to run against Clinton.
Regardless, I want Obama to put this thing away soon. With Clinton having to loan her campaign $5 million to try to keep up with the flood of contributions Obama got in January, one has to wonder if she is on the ropes… Obviously she is financially strapped, with staffers working for no pay. At the same time, could this be spun by the Clinton campaign as an underdog story? Something to think about.
At the same time Clinton is trying to bail her campaign out with her personal fortune, Obama has raised almost $6 million at the time I’m writing this… Just since the polls closed last night. I think it is abundantly clear that his momentum is trending upwards, and hers is trending downwards. Clinton is going to be focusing on the big states left up for grabs; Ohio and Texas. I think Obama will be close there, if not win them both, and I don’t think Clinton can compete with Obama’s all-terrain approach to getting delegates all over.
Yes. We Can. And we will.
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