The Obama 17: Superdelegates Waiting in the Wings to Put IL Senator Over the Top

[oldpol]

Source: Barron's

The Obama 17: Superdelegates in the Wings
By JIM MCTAGUE
THE ROAD TO VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL Hillary Clinton is straight out of a nightmare: It keeps getting steeper and steeper the closer she gets to the end. By late next week, it may become obvious even to her that she'd have a better chance at winning the Power Ball lottery than pulling out a cigar room filled backroom victory against Barack Obama.

A highly placed Democratic Party source we've dealt with for many years tells us that Obama over the next several weeks will announce support from as many as 17 superdelegates, bringing his total delegate count from the current 1,965 to 1,982. This means that he need win only 40% of the 110 pledged delegates up for grabs in primaries in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota to secure the nomination. Obama-campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said it sounded as though our source was guessing; our source says he got his information from the Obama campaign. We add that the number does not include 17 delegates won in early primaries by former candidate John Edwards, who recently jumped on the Obama bandwagon.

Clinton's strategy is to win most of the 111 delegates and then persuade 201 currently uncommitted superdelegates to support her. She argues that she would have a less difficult time defeating Republican John McCain in November because she's won primaries in key swing states, like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Primaries in Florida and Michigan did not count because the states violated party rules. Clinton hopes to persuade her party's rules committee on May 31 to seat delegates from those states anyway so as not to disfranchise their voters. She received the most votes in those unofficial primaries. Obama wasn't on the ballot in Michigan.


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[Spouting Horn]

1. Turn out the lights

the party's over!

[rodrigo2xxx]

2. this is exactly what she was looking for ... divide and conquer

She will do whatever possible to appear as a victim. Therefore the party has no longer legitimacy to impeach her for being a candidate and then, she can be a candidate without the party's support ... the perfect hold up ...
But, se already made mistakes all along the course of these primaries, another wrong idea ... by the clintons ...

[LiberalEsto]

3. Link is pretty much useless

You can't read the rest of the article unless you're a subscriber.


BTW I used to work with the writer of the article at a small NJ paper back in the mid-1970s.

[Pastiche423]

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But, you din't miss much. The rest of the article:

Simon Rosenberg, president of NDN, which describes itself as a "progressive think tank," predicts the party will seat part of the Michigan and Florida delegations, not all of them. Democratic officials in other states want them punished for bad behavior, he says. Rosenberg, who was a member of Bill Clinton's campaign staff in 1992, says he believes Hillary is hanging on because "she believes she's the better candidate."

[LiberalEsto]

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[Pastiche423]

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[Willo]

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:hi:

[Pastiche423]

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[Dogmudgeon]

4. Another I-Hate-Hillary screed posted OUTSIDE of GD-P

:eyes:

Take it back to the funny farm.

--p!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Where in that post does it say anything about hating Hillary?

[katerinasmommy]

14. Anything except saying Hillary will win...

is Hillary hating according to some it seems

[robinlynne]

9. waiting? waiting for what, for goodness sake?

[robinlynne]

10. self deleted.

[robinlynne]

11. the person in charge of the Puerto Rican election? Connie McCormack.

The same Connie who was charged with election fruad in Texas, then sent to "privatize" our Los Angeles elections, which she did. We are almost entirely run by Diebold and Diebold partners now. So, don't be surprised when.....

[Major Hogwash]

12. No time like the present.

If they wait much longer, we'll have to argue about why we wore tie-dyed tee shirts and "Jesus boots" all over again like we did with our parents 40 years ago!!

C'mon already!!

[billyoc]

13. Hey, Barrons. He gets 17 a WEEK!

17 over the next few weeks. :rofl:

[The Stranger]

17. Someone remind me again what the fuck they are waiting for?