First Edwards Delegate Switches to Obama - Portsmouth

[Kittycat]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/15/0213/29650/716/515938

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/05/14/nh_edwards_delegate_announces_hes_supporting_obama/

Joshua Denton

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—A New Hampshire Democratic Party delegate who had supported John Edwards says he will support Barack Obama, now that Edwards has endorsed his former political rival for the party's presidential nominee.
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Joshua Denton of Portsmouth, 26, an Iraq war veteran, says he thinks that both Obama and Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Republican nominee John McCain. He thinks that Obama is the change the country needs, along with having the best chance of beating McCain in the general election.

"My fear with Hillary was just because she is who she is -- for better or worse -- she would sink, not just lose the presidency," but Democrats in Congress, Denton said Wednesday.

[Growler]

1. woohoo!

nt

[totodeinhere]

2. Look for Obama to net at least six delegates from the Edwards delegates.

[MadBadger]

3. I hope we hear about these just like superdelegates...except they count towards pledged delegates

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Potent quote.

Cannot wait to see McCrash attempt to navigate out of the quagmire Boosh has so considerately built for him. Obama will mow him down in the GE race.

[NewHampshireDem]

5. Yeah for Seacoast New Hampshire!

First in the nation ... for a reason! :P

[grantcart]

6. here are the numbers

The post Edwards Numbers
1) Pledged delegates

Edwards has 19 Delegates in Iowa/NH/SC let's assume Obama gets 15 of those (all of Iowa and SC but not NH)

Obama's pledged majority magic number 25


Delegates at stake in Kentucky 60 and Oregon 65.

Let's assume that the pledged numbers announce before 5/20

Obama would get the pledged majority in Kentucky - not Oregon

Let's assume that he gets 60 of the 125 delegates up that night



Obama's magic number for majority of the delegates is 133.5



Edwards 15
KY/OR 60

Total 75

He only needs 58 Super Delegates to get the nomination

There are probably 30 delegates that will go immediately for the pledged majority winner

So Obama needs about 30 Super Delegates to clinch the nomination

There are 8 add on Super Delegates to be added this weekend

Colorado 1 5/17/2008 Selected during the State Convention
Kansas 1 5/17/2008 Selected during the State Convention
Nevada 1 5/17/2008 Selected by the state convention as a whole
California 5 5/18/2008 Selected during the Delegation Meeting

[davidpdx]

7. Here comes 1900 delegates

[Cha]

8. Oh, Joshua Denton has this right..

"My fear with Hillary was just because she is who she is -- for better or worse -- she would sink, not just lose the presidency," but Democrats in Congress, Denton said Wednesday."

hilary doesn't have the country in mind..only herself so how could she not help but Sink? That whole kitchen sink strategy coming back to bite her in her lyin' ass.

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[K Gardner]

10. Today should be interesting...:-)

[Aloha Spirit]

11. I heart Portsmouth

[catgirl]

12. Yeah! My future hometown!!

I hope we see more of this by Fri.

[book_worm]

13. Great news!

[thewiseguy]

14. Most of them will follow