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Barack Obama has been doing great from the begining, and is well on his way to the presidancy. If he could chose a running mate soon he would have the edge over Mcain in that respect. the latest numbers i've seen show Obama with a 3-7 point lead over Mcain, with 13% undecided. Time said it all though. Obama is getting most of the media, and most people expect him to win. It's hard to deny that kind of advantage, which, although has come without much work, would be prudent of the campain to make sure it stays.
Thats it for now
Thanks for reading
James
Vote For Barack, its the only way out
McGovern, former Clinton backer, urges her to drop out
SIOUX FALLS, SD: Former Sen. George McGovern, an early supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed her rival, Barack Obama.
McGovern said he had no regrets about endorsing Hillary Clinton months ago, [which he did] even before the Iowa caucuses.
"She has run a valiant campaign….but Obama has won the nomination "by any practical test" and is very close to a majority of the pledged delegates.…It's time to unite the Democratic Party. Hillary, of course, will make the decision as to if and when she ends her campaign. But I hope that she reaches that decision soon so that we can concentrate on a unified party capable of winning the White House next November”, he said.
This new endorsement from Mr. McGovern is, of course, encouraging support for our candidate!
Thank you North Carolina, and thank you Obama supporters in the Great Hoosier State!
Hillary Clinton probably won't drop out of course, but with influential support being added almost weekly from honorable statesmen such as Ted Kennedy, Bill Richardson, and now George McGovern, the un-pledged Superdelegates are surely getting the message if they haven't already. I, for one, plan to take the time to contact as many individuals of influence such as John Edwards - as well as uncommitted delegates, and Superdelegates - and ask for their public support for Barack Obama, and I hope you fellow Obama supporters will as well.
Still, the potentially problematic issues that remain unresolved and that concern me are twofold.
First - For some unexplained "reason" there is still the possibility of Hillary Clinton being allowed to change the rules and have Michigan and Florida counted, which change she began clamoring for only when she realized that the groundswell of support for Barack Obama posed a decided threat to her ascension to the throne, excuse me, the Presidency. I know I am not the only person who would be VERY UPSET if that were to occur, and IMHO that would be an extremely DIVISIVE act on the part of those who have the POWER in that arena.
This nomination contest has morphed into an (extended) historic event that, from my perspective, seems not unlike a second Civil War, only one without physical weapons. I deplore the fact that the racial divide in the U.S. remains as wide as this election year is revealing to everyone, not just to people in this country but to people around the world
Secondly - There is the problem of the "association" with one J. Wright, to whom some are determined to keep our collective focus diverted.
Like others, I was stunned and outraged myself when the media circus came to town again and Wright was its star attraction. I don't know beans about public relations, but I am hoping that people who do will get to work disarming the opposition so their continued use of this absurd distortion of the Senator's LOYALTY (which is a virtue, not a vice, the last time I looked) in A PERSONAL, NOT A POLITICAL CONTEXT will be to their disadvantage.
Barack Obama has a heart for people. A person like that is not cutthroat and calculating and is not going to kick someone to the curb just because that person's views DIFFER from his. He is also is intelligent enough to know where boundaries exist in terms of what part of his public service career people are in, and whether they have a part in it at all, especially when it comes to his political office. I have a feeling that he is keenly aware of the separation of church and state.
I saw a page in today’s issue (May 7) of the L.A. Times online this morning, one that featured ONLY politicians and others who are DIRECLY involved in politics. In the most prominent position on that page were the photos of (from left to right): John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and, would you believe, Jeremiah Wright!
Would someone please inform the media that HE IS NOT A POLITICIAN? HE HAS BEEN ENTICED BY THE SENSATIONAL MEDIA (and others whose motives are impure) TO THRUST HIMSELF INTO THE POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT even though he has no place there. Clearly if this man had been as all-inclusively involved in Senator Obama’s life outside of the traditional religious rituals of marriage, baptism, and (basically obligatory) Sunday services, Barack Obama would have observed these attention-seeking aspects in a context outside of his religious activities. But Barack did not have this man as a “bosom buddy”, or an advisor to his political decisions, contrary to what the opposition would like people to believe.
But I insist that Wright be put into context. If the “sins” of the clergy are to be attached to anyone who won’t drop his or her “association” with a person or a church, then every person who, like myself, was baptized and raised as a Catholic “should” be expected to cut their ties with that church when we began to be aware of not only words, but the actions of the now infamous among those clergy. What when JFK and later Bobby Kennedy sought the Presidency? Looking back, if those cases of child molestation by priests had been made public prior to their bids for the highest office of the land, would we have expected JFK, or of Bobby Kennedy to leave the Catholic Church?
If someone who is Catholic wants to become the Presidential nominee in the future, what if, at some point, people learn that his or her priest had molested children, and the candidate-to-be had had that person as a friend? Would we assume that he or she condones pedophilia? How far are some people going to take this “association” thing?
And what of Hillary Clinton’s choice (which, by the way, I agree with) to not end her “association” with ‘that man’ whose actions were definitely immoral when he elected to commit adultery? There were those who criticized Mrs. Clinton for staying in her marital relationship with Bill Clinton even though his actions were illegal - as in sexual harassment - if my understanding of that law is correct. Her association with him goes back quite a number of years, and, if memory serves me, there was at least one other young woman with whom he was, let’s say, inappropriately involved.
When the Lewinsky affair nearly caused the impeachment of Bill Clinton I found the graphic description of their illicit behaviors to be a total embarrassment. I’m sure Hillary Clinton did not agree with what the person with whom she was associated for more than 20 years did, or, for that matter what he said when questioning about the affair began. I found the whole thing distressing and I just wanted it to go away. I find Jeremiah Wright distressing and likewise, I want him to go away and live his life somewhere other than on the political center stage.
Hello America: J. Wright, as well as the lapel pin silliness both need to be relegated to a backwater of our national consciousness, so THE REAL ISSUES THAT ARE PRESSING IN ON US CAN BE DEALT WITH…AND SOON! It's the economy, sweetie. And housing that is affordable at EVERY income level, or homelessness “will be with us always”, and its numbers will swell exponentially. And healthcare, or rather the lack thereof, as I personally know. And education, before America falls even FURTHER BEHIND THE REST OF THE "DEVELOPED" WORLD. And Mr. Bush's war in Iraq which has not made the U.S. safe (or even any safer?) from KNOWN terrorists (not to mention incipient terrorists). Is anybody concerned about the price of food and of gasoline? I don’t care about what someone inconsequential said in the past, I care about what is going to be done in the very near future.
Hillary Clinton IS hanging on in this nomination contest by a slender thread. This FACT has been reported on by credible experts – people who are presumably impartial and who know how to run the numbers. Mr. McGovern's restatement of that numerical reality should be a wake-up call for the wife of the former President. But she wants to win badly; it’s my perception that saving face is more her style than facing facts. But what I and many other Americans want, and will insist upon, is significant change in the way things are done. From where I sit it goes without saying that John McCain won’t take us there…and neither will Hillary Clinton.
My having been inspired – or I should say “fired up” – enough to connect with fellow Americans about this political process and to take the time to WRITE THOUGHTFULLY (a task which had become distasteful to me post-Master's thesis) says a lot about the persuasive nature of Senator Obama's sustained commitment to changing the way things have always been done.
“I don't contribute money to political candidates”, says I, yet I have made modest contributions into Senator Obama’s campaign coffers. “I don't participate in partisan politics”, I add, and I am passionately involved in communicating by phone and in writing about this nomination process to an extent to which I have never before been motivated in any of my MANY years as an adult.
I believe that the participation of ALL Americans is vital at this point in this country's history if the U.S. has any hope of thriving as a nation. I also firmly believe that it is any nation's fatal flaw to fail to include any group that resides among it. In unity there IS strength, and, make no mistake about it: divided we will fall.
We, the people, are the ones who are building the momentum behind the leadership of the ONE CANDIDATE - in the person of BARACK OBAMA - who has the unique combination of abilities that are needed if America is to come up out of the pit into which the past eight years has placed this country.
We stand behind and beside Barack Obama and pledge our support to the HOPE and POSSIBILITY of achieving The Dream that we all have of being a Great Society.
Expect to see new math this week from the Clinton Camp. It's been consistent since Super Tuesday when their poor planning and assumption that they had the nomination gave Obama the opportunity to show the American people that he is our candidate.
Every time it becomes clear that Obama has the nomination, Hillary tries to move the goal posts. Well, in the General Election she won't be able to change the rules to win. Maybe we should be supporting the candidate the can win honestly and without gimmicks and political trickery.
RawStory.com has a stpry about a North Carolina Super Delegate saying that the Clintons tried to buy her vote - link below.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pressure_Mounting_on_IN_and_NC_0506.html
We now have the Presumptive Nominee of the Democratic Party - Barack Obama.
Stephanie Marushia, Virginia Beach, VA
This is the development for the committed superdelegates:
Date Obama Clinton Diff
01.13.08 69 165 96 139% 02.03.08 105 198 93 89% 02.24.08 174 238 64 37% 03.23.08 210 246 36 17% 04.29.08 239 259 20 8% 05.05.08 258 273 15 6%
Hey,
So I'm a member of all these teen-based groups, but I was wondering how practical it is for us teens who support Obama to be split up into various groups all with the same goal... Perhaps we could just create one universal group for teenagers across the U.S. and the world who want to support Obama in every way that he/she can. It seems to me that it would be more beneficial if we could all be posting blogs on the same group as opposed to switching through multiple. We would be able to increase our strength in numbers and have more potential for hosting/participating in teen-initiated obama-fan events and fundraisers. I don't mind creating a group, but I was wondering what others think of the idea?
-Ryan
Thank you Mississippi! Maybe people will stop talking about the numbers as if they are just statistics and realize that in reality, Obama has won this nomination.
Now that Senator Obama needs to be in PA to cut into Clintons lead, we need feed on the ground in Florida and Michigan. We need rallies, we need to talk to Seniors, farmers, and those upset that they were counted out in 2000. We need to remind them that Clinton is attempting to do to Obama what Bush did to Gore.
Most of all we need to get our message of hope and change out there. We need to get beyond political bickering and get our Social Security policy to the forefront. Point out that Barack hasn't taken money from big Pharma, insurance companies, and the like. We also need to point out that Obama is not concerned with the same old game that hasn't worked in saving Social Security in the past.
He's our chance for a new deal with Social Security. He is the only one that can successfully reach across the aisle and get it done. Clinton has alienated too many people, she does not have the popular vote, she does not have the delegates, and if she steals this election by cheating the voters with Super Delegates and forcing the DNC to overturn the rules she agreed to, she will not come into office with enough political capital to get major issues solved in the first term.
Our Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania supporters need to get out there and knock on doors, make calls, talk to friends and family, and make sure they have bumper stickers and signs very visible. We need to let people know that we will not sit down and accept it if she is allowed to steal this election. Show people the numbers and explain what she would have to pull in order to win (and we know she will try it), maybe then the people will vote for the candidate that has essentially won, so we don't have a mass exodus from the party!
I am scratching my head this morning listening to all the hype about Clinton's big come-back, and she seems to believe it suddenly inevitable that she will get the nomination. Folks, let's take a look at the numbers, and see why it is nearly impossible that she will win the majority of pledged delegates at this point . . .
The caveat here, of course, is that the slimmer the margin between the two, the more of an argument Clinton can make to sway superdelegates away from the vote of the people. So, while it looks inevitable that Obama will win in the primary and caucus votes--the peoples votes--we must keep working to ensure his margin continues to grow, so that he does not lose the nomination at the hands of the superdelegates. I trust the superdelegates to be of the utmost integrity, and we just make their decision easier by providing Obama a strong lead in the polls.
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This news is dated, but still something folks in New Jersey should be aware of. The Quinnipiac Poll of New jersey residents released on March 1st contained some interesting numbers. Click <a href ="Link to read the full release.
Important numbers:
Favorable - Unfavorable (Don't know enough about candidate)
Obama: 42% - 11% (45%!!!)
Clinton: 47% - 43% (8%)
There is definitely something special happening here.
From our count, over 40,000 people came out to see Barack Obama over the last three days from Iowa to New Hampshire. Everyday folks who want a new brand of politics braved sub-freezing temperatures, long lines, and long road trips to hear what Senator Obama had to say.
And that doesn't even include the 14.2 million people who tuned into 60 Minutes on Sunday night or the now 70,000 of you who have joined the BarackObama community.
This isn't just another campaign. You can't create this kind of excitement with campaign tactics or media manipulation. This campaign truly is about you - and this is just the beginning.
