“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Saturday May 3, 2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Saturday May 3, 2008

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U.S. and Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses the North Carolina Democratic Party's 2008 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Jon Gardiner (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008
(USA) (the crowd cheered so loud that CSPAN tried to drown it out by turning up the music.)

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1. May 3rd last day to register in person in North Carolina -read more

Please urge all voters in North Carolina, regardless of where or how they registered - to check their voter registration status.

Voters can either look up their registration online if they have a computer, or call their County Board of Elections office. If the voter is not registered, they can still go to an early voting site in their county, and register and vote at the same time. Time is running out - early voting is the last chance to register in person and May 3 is the last day. Then we have regular election day on May 6 (but you have to already be registered).

VOTERS: Make Sure You Are Registered to Vote and That Your Vote Counts -Check Your Registration at the State Board of Elections website Look to the left hand side for the "Voter registration button"

Call your County Election Director to check your voter registration if you do not have access to a computer. It is in the phone book. They will be happy to answer your questions.

You can still register and vote during "One Stop Absentee" (Early) Voting: Apr. 17 - May 3

The North Carolina State Board of Elections website now has up to date and easy to understand information for new and current voters. Find out how to register, where to vote, locations of early voting sites and more

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2. Last date to vote in NC: May 6

Time is running out, people with registration problems can still register and vote from now through May 3rd
Important Election Dates:
2008 Primary Election May 6th
Last day to register to vote: Apr. 11
Absentee Voting: Mar. 17 - Apr. 29
One Stop Absentee Voting: Apr. 17 - May 3

Go to the North Carolina State Board of Elections website http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/ to check your voter registration. They also have information for new and current voters on how to register, where to vote, and more. Voters without internet access should call their County Boards of Elections to find out if they are registered).
http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/content.aspx?id=13

Remember, if you are not registered, you can still go to an early voting site to both register and vote through May 3rd.
To report voting problems please see our online form (through Voter Story) at www.ncvoter.net

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3. Olbermann: Clinton's O'Reilly Gig "Pathetic And Revelatory"

Manchurian Candidates and Fox

by Keith Olbermann Fri May 02, 2008 at 09:31:36 AM PDT

I knew some day I'd actually write something that did not include a shout about what we're doing on the show. And, my very dear friends, as Mr McCain would begin, this day has arrived. I've been startled to watch two developments anger and shake our respective Coalitions of The Reasonable, without the obvious deflating corollaries apparently dawning on anybody.

Firstly, Senator Clinton's appearance with O'Reilly is more pathetic and revelatory than it is outrageous. Secondly, the "Manchurian Candidate" meme voiced by Coultergeist might be taken down and later used against her.

• Keith Olbermann's diary :: ::

Starting with Senator Clinton and Fox. Nobody appreciates outrage about Fixed News more than do I. I am the East Coast Distributor of Fixed News Outrage. But hasn't the most telling explanation about the surprisingly-yawny Billo interview struck anybody? She did it because it was serious free television time and if it costs much more than free, she can't afford it.She was doing a freakin' info-mercial.

This appearance with an 8 PM host on a network whose 9 PM host still likes to insist she's a murderer, is a kind of political version of the story of the legendary gossip columnist Walter Winchell, for 30 years dominating newspapers, radio, television, even film, and acting gigs like voiceovers for "The Untouchables." One day the tv show was cancelled. Then the radio. Then the newspapers started dropping the column. And seemingly overnight, Winchell is standing on a street corner with a handful of his columns, which he has typed out himself and copied on a mimeograph machine, and he is giving them away to passersby.

And the desperation in this was not one way. The Mighty Favog of Fox billed this as his "World Exclusive." To repeat two observations from last night's televisioning, if you live in your own world as he does, this might be technically correct. Billo's "World Exclusive" with her came ten days after my "World Exclusive" with her and ten days after Larry King's "World Exclusive" with her and the same day as Cynthia McFadden's "World Exclusive" with her. I am half expecting to see my buddy Joel McHale do a "World Exclusive" with her on E!'s The Soup.

…more at the link

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4. *** Obama and Hillary about to speak Live -- C-Span** Threads 1 & 2

*** Obama and Hillary about to speak Live -- C-Span
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5789863&mesg_id=5789863

Thread 2 *** Obama and Hillary about to speak Live -- C-Span
rhombus
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5791509&mesg_id=5791509

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5. OMG!! Crowd Chants 'OBAMA-OBAMA' During Clinton Speech at NC Dinner Tonight

(cant wait to see this on You Tube, hopefully SOON)
truthpusher
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5793573

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38. Obama is different

Although I respect Hillary, Obama is different. He represents a shift in a new kind of politics.

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6. Robo Call update 1: Why did Women's Voices use disruptive voter registration approach in NC?

Facing South. May 02, 2008

Why did Women's Voices use disruptive voter registration approach in NC?

In response to our investigation of Women's Voices Women Vote and their illegal and deceptive voter outreach in North Carolina before the critical state primaries, some have defended their voter registration approach.

No one seems to be defending Women's Voices' use of anonymous, illegal robo-calls in North Carolina, or their decision to do those calls in North Carolina two and a half months after they had told a newspaper in Virginia that they vowed to stop the practice nation-wide.

This strategy -- which Women's Voices conceded could cause problems, in a letter they faxed to the N.C. State Board of Elections on Monday -- is all the more curious given that every organization Facing South spoke to that has been involved in voter registration in North Carolina has been using a much easier alternative: One-Stop Early Voting.

This voting reform, passed last year, allows North Carolina voters to register and vote all at once at over 200 One Stop voting centers across the state. Representatives from Democracy North Carolina, the NAACP, and the N.C Democratic Party all tell us they have been pushing almost exclusively for One-Stop Voting, because of its ability to capitalize on interest in elections created by the primaries, but also avoids the potential of discouraging and disenfranchising voters inherent in Women's Voices' approach.

For example, as Damon Circosta of the N.C. Center for Voter Education said to Facing South:

“Ever since the register-by-mail deadline passed, nearly every voter engagement group in the state has been pushing one-stop early voting, where you can register and vote at the same time without mailing anything in. To be pushing mail-in registration at this time is either a blunder of comedic proportions or a deliberate attempt to confuse.”

...more at the link

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7. Robo Call Update 2: Center for Investigative Reporting follows Women's Voices' political connections

Center for Investigative Reporting follows Women's Voices' political connections

Facing South May 2, 2008

Will Evans with the Center for Investigative Reporting has compiled a helpful chart documenting in detail the connections between the principals of Women's Voices Women Vote -- the nonprofit we discovered behind illegal election robo-calls in North Carolina -- and the various presidential campaigns.

As we have already noted, many of the group's top leaders have worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton in some capacity. Founder and President Page Gardner, for example, served as the deputy political director for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign and worked on his presidential transition team. Executive Director Joe Goode was a pollster for Bill Clinton, and former Women's Voices leadership team member and strategic planner Maggie Williams is now Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.

The Center breaks new ground by showing just how heavily and disproportionately Women's Voices principals have invested in the Hillary Clinton campaign. According to the chart, they have donated a total of $34,800 to Hillary Clinton or HillPAC since 2000. At the same time, they have donated only $3,600 to the Obama campaign and $2,300 to John Edwards.

click here and scroll to the bottom about questions raised by charity watchdogs over the fact that in 2006 Women's Voices paid $800,000 -- 16 percent of its budget -- for phone services to Integral Resources Inc., whose CEO and founder, Ron Rosenblith, is Gardner's husband. The organization also paid several million dollars more to companies run by five other members of the nonprofit's leadership team.
Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy in Chicago, said that's a concern as it gives the appearance of a conflict of interest. Rick Cohen, former executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and a national correspondent for Nonprofit Quarterly magazine, added that such relationships create "the image, if not the reality, of self-dealing."]

posted by Sue Sturgis at 1:30

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8. The Mickey Kantor Indiana tape ...

May 02, 2008

The Mickey Kantor Indiana tape ...

Posted by Mark Kleiman

... is bogus. I don't know whether it's being pushed by actual (stupid) Obama supporters or by Rushbo's "Operation Chaos" types, but no, Mickey Kantor didn't use an expletive or a racial slur against Indianans, and the tape has been doctored to make it appear that he did.
And I'm glad to say that as far as I know no pro-Obama blogger picked up on the story (though Byron York of NRO got stung and then recanted) and that at least two of them (Andrew Sullivan and Hillary Bok) took the lead in unmasking the forgery.
Clinton supporters, please copy.

http://www.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/05/the_mickey_kantor_indiana_tape_.php

[mystieus]

9. Guam

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10. The Apollo Alliance (renewable energy advocate) reacts to the Clinton/McCain Gas Tax Holiday

The Apollo Alliance (renewable energy org) reacts to the Clinton/McCain Gas Tax Holiday

Subject: Apollo Update: Action in states, plus gas tax holiday or transit
Date: May 2, 2008 5:04 PM

A few weeks back several of our Hillary Clinton supporters took umbrage when we noted that Barack Obama mentioned the Apollo Alliance in the last Democratic presidential debate. So mindful of sensitivities and fairness, we want to spotlight Senator Clinton's speech in Fort Wayne, and comments she made during nearly every other public appearance this week in Indiana, when she repeatedly said, “You’ve heard of white-collar jobs and blue-collar jobs. We’re going to create green-collar jobs.”CAMPAIGN MEMO

Faltering Economy Plays to a Clinton Strength By JODI KANTOR Published: April 28, 2008

Senator Clinton and Senator John McCain have reached agreement on one energy strategy – temporarily suspending the 18.5 cents per gallon federal gas tax for the summer. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times attacked the proposal this week. “This is not an energy policy,” he wrote. “This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.”

Dumb as We Wanna Be By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: April 30, 2008

Senator Obama, meanwhile, countered this week with a proposal that from this vantage makes sense: expanding the nation's rail system to provide drivers with more alternatives. “With gas prices what they are, we should be expanding rail service,” Senator Obama said during a campaign stop in Indiana. “We are going to be having a lot of conversations this summer about gas prices. And it’s a perfect time to start talk about why we don’t have better rail service. We are the only advanced country in the world that doesn’t have high speed rail. Rail is a lot more reliable and it is a good way for us to start reducing how much gas we are using.”

For our Apollo Feedback feature next week I'd like to know what you think? Gas tax holiday? Public Investment in new rail initiatives. Something else? Write to me at [e-mail]

Learn more at Apollo Alliance

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11. ANOTHER DISTRACTION! THE VOTER SUPPRESSION ROBO CALLS WERE REAL!!!

mod mom Fri May-02-08 03:04 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5785118&mesg_id=5785118

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12. The Superdelegates Are Paying Close Attenton to Hillary's Gas Tax Pander

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5789949&mesg_id=5789949

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13. MEMO: TO THE NEW BOSSES OF THE PARTY – WE ARE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BUS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5779139&mesg_id=5779139

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14. Frontpage in Indiana! OBAMA! [View All]

thewiseguy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5783696&mesg_id=5783696

[JackORoses]

15. Hillary faces Obama Chants at JJ Dinner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqcJOfelTsc

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16. those darn latte drinking liberals (we've been poisoned by fancy coffee)

whats so bad is even McDonalds is peddling this horrible brain eating drink of democrats.

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19. DU link to JackORoses video - what about the other parts (Gov Easly)?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x127093

So people can see it and comment.

Thanks.

I'm greedy, got any on Gov Easly?

I bet the MSM will grab ahold of that one, its very embarassing.
(He got booed - probably because he endorsed Hillary).

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17. Stop the Racist Ad Against Obama: Blogger Spaulding Nails it to US Senator Dole's Door! (video)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x126956

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18. NC BLACK PRESS w/CLINTON & OBAMA asks how they would unite party before Nov

VIDEO

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x127090

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20. N&R: Jefferson Jackson Dinner: The first boos ...came for (Gov) Mike Easley

Boos for Easley, or his endorsement?

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith News and Observer - Under the Dome on May 2, 2008 - 8:49pm.

The first boos of the night came for Mike Easley.

As Hillary Clinton was going through her list of thank-yous at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, she mentioned former party chairwoman Barbara Allen, party chairman Jerry Meek and the state's Congressional and legislative Democrats.

But when she named Easley — and specifically his endorsement of her — some in the crowd began to boo.

It was not clear exactly why they were booing, but based on calls to the governor's office, some were upset that he took a stand in the contentious race.

Clinton then praised Easley's wife, Mary, and former governors Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt.

By then, the crowd settled down.

...more at the link

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21. Hillary Responds To Bill Clinton's Role In Shipping Of Jobs Overseas With More Deception

Friday, May 2, 2008 The Personal IS Political

Hillary Responds To Bill Clinton's Role In Shipping Of Jobs Overseas With More Deception

Not so long ago I linked to an article about how Hillary has been running around Indiana decrying jobs being sent overseas, and then blaming Bush for this, even though in the example she uses it was her husband, Bill Clinton, as president who sold out the workers of Indiana by approving the sale to the Chinese.

As usual, when called on her deception, she responds with more deception. Read about it here:

ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception
by David Sirota

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22. tomorrow's gallup will show Clinton -1 and Obama +1 (48/46)

http://www.gallup.com/poll/election2008.aspx

For some reason they post the results in their long term poll the night before and then add it to the daily tracking poll in the morning.

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23. Thank You! K and R

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24. NYT "Mrs. Clinton (left) with dwindling options"

Clinton May Be Hopeful, but Obama Rolls On

INDIANAPOLIS — Have Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination improved as Senator Barack Obama has struggled through his toughest month of this campaign?

Still, despite a series of trials that have put Mr. Obama on the defensive and illustrated the burdens he might carry in a fall campaign, the Obama campaign is rolling along, leaving Mrs. Clinton with dwindling options.

Mr. Obama continues to pick up the support of superdelegates — elected Democrats and party leaders — at a quicker pace than Mrs. Clinton.

On Thursday, he got a boost from a high-profile defection: Joe Andrew, a former Democratic national chairman appointed by former President Bill Clinton, said he had changed his mind and would back Mr. Obama. Even after Mrs. Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama has held on to a solid lead in pledged delegates, those selected by the voting in primaries and caucuses.

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By and large, the group that matters most at this point — the uncommitted superdelegates, who are likely to hold the balance of power — still seem to view their decision the way the Obama campaign would like them to see it. They suggest that they are more sympathetic to the argument that they should follow the will of the voters as expressed by the delegates amassed by the candidates when the primary season is done rather than following Mrs. Clinton’s admonitions to select the candidate they think would best be able to defeat Senator John McCain and the Republicans in November.

“It’s about the numbers, and the numbers are the numbers,” said Chris Redfern, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party and an uncommitted superdelegate. “It’s not about hand-wringing. And Senator Obama has the lead.”

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David Plouffe, the manager of Mr. Obama’s campaign, said that if Mrs. Clinton won 55 percent of the remaining pledged delegates — an assumption he called “overly generous” — she would still need about two-thirds of the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to reach the 2,025 delegates needed to secure the nomination.

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers did not dispute Mr. Plouffe’s calculation, in effect acknowledging the enormousness of their task.


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“The delegate math is not going to change significantly,” Ms. McCaskill said. “She is a formidable candidate, she has passionate support, but I don’t see the people who are for Obama wavering one bit.”

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25. Peggy Noonan on Wright: "it doesn't get my blood up. It doesn't hurt my heart."

What a surprise.

I am out of step. There is something that is upsetting others whom I care about and whose thoughts are often not unlike my own. And it's not hitting me the same way.

Loyal to the Bitterness

DECLARATIONS By PEGGY NOONAN May 2, 2008; Page A11

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I also think that if Hillary Clinton wins because of the Wright scandal, it will leave a sad taste in the mouths of many. Mr. Obama reveals many things in his books, speeches and interviews but polarity and a tropism toward the extreme are not among them. What happened with Mr. Wright should not determine the race. Mr. Obama's stands, his ability to convince us he can make good change, his ability to be "one of us," that great challenge for a national politician in a varied nation, should determine the race.

But I am finding it hard to feel truly upset about what Mr. Wright has said. This is the out-of-stepness I referred to. So here I will talk not about how people will respond to him but how I do.

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Few voters will be more inclined to vote for Barack Obama because his friend, mentor and pastor is extreme. They will think it makes Mr. Obama less attractive. They will not think Mr. Obama handled the challenge with force, dispatch and the kind of instinct that turns dilemma into gain.

And yet . . . it doesn't get my blood up. It doesn't hurt my heart. It doesn't make me feel I need to defend my country. Because I don't see it as attacked, only criticized in a way that is not persuasive.

...more at the link

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26. USA Today: Despite PA: Obama narrows superdelegate gap

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-01-superdelegates_N.htm

WASHINGTON — The Democratic nomination race is murkier than ever. Hillary Rodham Clinton is rising in the polls while Barack Obama is gaining ground among superdelegates who will decide the winner.

Obama has spent the past 10 days coping with his loss in Pennsylvania and new controversy sparked by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. At the same time, he has won 15 endorsements and Clinton has netted 10 from the VIP contingent called superdelegates.

Obama is ahead in overall delegates. His campaign is keeping a count of how many more he needs to reach 2,025 and win the nomination. On Thursday, tallying the latest additions on both sides, it put the magic number at 283. (The Associated Press had the number at 288.5 on Thursday.)

Clinton's top endorsement this week was North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, whose state votes Tuesday. He appears in a Clinton ad describing her as resilient and determined.

Obama made gains Thursday with a high-profile switcher: Joe Andrew, a former national party chairman from Indiana — the other state that votes Tuesday.

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37. Race is tight

This is a tighter race than most though. My feeling on it currently, is that it is going to get even uglier than it already has gotten.

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27. IHT Obama leaves the stage to mix with his skeptics

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/02/america/02obama.php?page=2
COLUMBIA CITY, Indiana: There was no music, no sea of screaming admirers and only a light dabble of applause when Senator Barack Obama walked across the green carpet of the Oak Pointe retirement center here on Thursday at his first campaign stop of the day.

For a presidential candidate, particularly one in the throes of a rigorous political and personal test, such a dearth of energy could be a worrisome sign. For Obama, it was all part of the new script.

"What I want to do is spend more time listening than talking," Obama told a small clutch of Indiana voters. "It's been wonderful to see these big crowds, but the problem is you don't really learn much when you're listening to yourself talk."

As he tries to navigate beyond one of his roughest patches in the long Democratic nominating fight, Obama did not retreat to the comforts of super-size rallies that have defined his presidential bid, with their lofty oratory.

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But as Obama heard for himself, those concerns are on people's minds. At a campaign stop outside South Bend, a man asked a question about trade and before he finished, he added: "I've been reading on the Internet that you believe as an American we should not have to pledge allegiance to the flag. Is that true?"

"It is not. That is completely bogus," Obama replied tersely. "These e-mails have been sent around in each state I'm about to go into. It's a smear campaign they've been running since the beginning of the campaign. I lead the Pledge of Allegiance when I'm presiding in the Senate, so you can catch it on videotape."

To lighten the day, Obama also turned to humor. A crew from "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central followed him around Indiana. He delivered the Top 10 list on "Late Show with David Letterman." He did not mention Wright but did poke fun at himself on No. 6, saying: "Earlier today, I bowled a 39," a reference to his actual score of 37 he bowled last month in Pennsylvania.


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At four campaign events, the subject of Wright was not broached publicly on Thursday. It was, though, on the minds of several voters who filled his small audiences.

Betty McManama, an 87-year-old resident of the retirement center, has carefully followed the Democratic primary. She disagreed strongly with Wright's remarks about the United States government, but she said she did not believe the senator should be punished for them. She said she felt that questions of religion, patriotism and values were an excuse.

"I think there's a certain percentage of people who won't vote for him because he's black, and I think that's a shame," said McManama, who started the day on Thursday not sure which Democratic candidate to support. But after meeting Obama, she said: "I'm leaning toward him. How could you not?"

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28. NJ Democrats now support Obama

NJ Democrats now support Obama

Poll shows Obama ahead with N.J. Democrats

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 30, 2008

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--presidentialpoll-0430apr30,0,5458012.story

TRENTON, N.J. - Support among New Jersey Democrats in the presidential race appears to be shifting to Barack Obama.

A Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll finds 45 percent of the Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents surveyed would like to see Obama get the party's nomination compared to 38 percent for Hillary Clinton.

Clinton beat Obama in the state's Democratic primary in February by a 10-point margin.

Nearly 40 percent of the Democrats polled say the continuing battle between the presidential candidates will damage the party's chances in November.

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29. USA Today: Obama radically changing campaign fund raising

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/USATODAY/2008/05/02/6370337?&pbl=7


Presidential campaigns are typically fueled by contributions of $2,300, the maximum allowed from an individual donor, but the Internet has made it easier to build huge campaign treasuries in small bites.

"Donating to campaigns for so long has been the exclusive domain of an elite few," said Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics. "This election seems to be the first one to indicate that's changing."

Since the 2000 elections, the percentage of small donations to presidential candidates has doubled.

The trend is driven by Obama, who has used the Internet to shatter many fundraising records.

Since January 2007, Obama has collected more than $101 million in small donations -- an amount that far surpasses the $68.4 million raised in small increments by all 10 Democratic presidential contenders at this stage in the 2004 campaign.

The Illinois senator's fundraising haul also is more than double the small donations collected by all presidential candidates -- Republican and Democrat -- at this point in 2000, Campaign Finance Institute data show.

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30. In Indiana it appears Bill is running against Obama

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=IN_ND&ref_pge=lst

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=IN_PT&ref_pge=lst


Here are some other front pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=IN_ET&ref_pge=lst

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=IN_SBT&ref_pge=lst

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31. Its GOP, McSame, Billary, Limpballs, Orelly, Scaiffe, er the vast right wing

Obama has to run against all of them, Hillary given GOTV effort as gift.

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32. Ooooops! On Hillary's "gas tax holiday"

((((((((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Ooooops! )))))))))))))))))))))))

2008.05.03 01:52:13


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Hillary Clinton says her gasoline tax holiday will help
farmers, who don't pay tax on fuel used on the farm.

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/lying_in_politics_/2008/05/ooooops.php

[Scurrilous]

33. K & R

:thumbsup:

[JimGinPA]

34. K&R

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35. **Another superdelegate for Obama - Inez Tenenbaum, Former SC state Ed Superintendent

In Breaking News, so please kick and recommend
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3295147

[progressive25]

36. Good suggestions

Good suggestions all.

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39. Truthful reporting about Jefferson Jackson Dinner in North Carolina

Making people angry: the Jefferson-Jackson Diner May 3, 2008 Mark Binker News and Record

It wasn't 8 a.m. yet this morning before I got a phone call from someone complaining about my story on Sens. Clinton and Obama campaigning at the Jefferson-Jackson diner in Raleigh last night.

The criticism was over this line:

"...from the crowd, which appeared to heavily favor the Illinois senator and roared when he took the stage 70 minutes later. Audience members roared and came to their feet several times during his speech. Although Clinton got applause, it was not as robust."

The caller said that the audience was evenly split between Clinton and Obama supporters. That was simply not the case.

First off, Clinton got a smattering of "boos" during her speech and Gov. Mike Easley appeared to lose his place at one point when the crowd jeered over his endorsement of Clinton.

Secondly, Clinton got some nice ovation. You could feel - literally feel the vibrations - from the applause that Obama got before he said a word.

Also, eyeballing the crowd, multiple reporters remarked on how many more Obama signs were in the house than there were for Clinton.

And the crowd was simply louder for Obama than it was for Clinton.

more at the link

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40. N.C. NAACP files formal vote-suppression complaint against Women's Voices, alerts U.S. DOJ of concer

We dont take shit on our voting rights - noey noey noe!!!

Breaking news, please kick kick kick

WillYourVoteB...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3295587

You said it needed to go further, now it has.

The NAACP in North Carolina is very effective.

[catgirl]

41. Obama beats Hillary in Guam

looks like there'll be a recount due to possible missing ballots.

[Blondiegrrl]

42. State (WV) auditor endorses Obama; says gas-tax flap sealed the deal

This is a day old. Sorry if it's already been posted:

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/ElectionCentral/200805010789

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43. that's great, he needed that in WVA

and they read the paper there.

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44. Hillary and Iran it's not pretty

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5799476