Barack Obama has just received the endorsement of the Culinary Workers Union, according to ABC News.
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Sunlen Miller Report: Despite losing Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Sen. Barack Obama secured the endorsement of the Culinary Workers union. The endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union is seen as the biggest get in Nevada, a state which votes Jan. 19. At 11 p.m. E.T. on Tuesday, a 12-member panel which controls the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union held a conference call to decide which '08 candidate to endorse. The panel making the decision is the executive committee of UNITE-HERE, Culinary's parent union. "We believe that Obama is the candidate who can bring the country together and we are proud to support his candidacy," Shauna Hamel, Executive Vice President of the union says. The backing of the 60,000-member union is seen as important because the state's Democratic Party is only expecting 40,000 Democrats to participate in the caucuses. Culinary's members work in casinos up and down the Las Vegas Strip.
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Sunlen Miller Report: Despite losing Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Sen. Barack Obama secured the endorsement of the Culinary Workers union.
The endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union is seen as the biggest get in Nevada, a state which votes Jan. 19.
At 11 p.m. E.T. on Tuesday, a 12-member panel which controls the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union held a conference call to decide which '08 candidate to endorse.
The panel making the decision is the executive committee of UNITE-HERE, Culinary's parent union.
"We believe that Obama is the candidate who can bring the country together and we are proud to support his candidacy," Shauna Hamel, Executive Vice President of the union says.
The backing of the 60,000-member union is seen as important because the state's Democratic Party is only expecting 40,000 Democrats to participate in the caucuses.
Culinary's members work in casinos up and down the Las Vegas Strip.
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Your question was, How did Hillary Clinton with N.H. when she was supposed to lose by double digits?" My answer is: The Expectation Game. The heretofore "inevitable" candidate Hillary Clinton was ACTUALLY supposed to WIN New Hampshire by a LOT, due to her connections and money in that state. Once Obama won Iowa -- a stunning victory for an insurgent campaign -- the Clintons and Mark Penn shifted their tactics into a Wall-Street style downshift in expectations. She portrayed herself as the downtrodden underdog, while Penn massaged the poll numbers to "predict" an overwhelming Obama victory. The result: instead of the press showing how amazing it was that the "inexperienced and naive" Obama campaign virtually tied the "unbreakable" Clinton machine, they are instead showing the "stunning comeback" of a so-called "dead" campaign. Perception. And guess what? You're all just lapping it up.
