Obama overtakes lead in superdelegates

[Atomic Rooster]

Yahoo! News - AP

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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.

Obama added superdelegates from Utah and Ohio, as well as two from the Virgin Islands who had previously backed Clinton. The additions enabled Obama to surpass Clinton's total for the first time in the campaign. He had picked up nine endorsements Friday.

The milestone is important because Clinton would need to win over the superdelegates by a wide margin to claim the nomination. They are a group that Clinton owned before the first caucus, when she was able to cash in on the popularity of the Clinton brand among the party faithful.

Those party insiders, however, have been steadily streaming to Obama since he started posting wins in early voting states.

"I always felt that if anybody establishes himself as the clear leader, the superdelegates would fall in line," said Don Fowler, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

"It is perceived that he is the leader," said Fowler, a superdelegate from South Carolina who supports Clinton. "The trickle is going to become an avalanche."

Poor Hillary.

[pickel]

It ain't over till it's over.......but it's awful darn close. I still think ALL 3 are an insult to the American people's intelligence but we're stuck with one of these losers. God help us.

[Atomic Rooster]

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Originally Posted by pickel

I still think ALL 3 are an insult to the American people's intelligence but we're stuck with one of these losers. God help us.

QFT!

[The Real Bingo]

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Originally Posted by pickel

It ain't over till it's over.......but it's awful darn close. I still think ALL 3 are an insult to the American people's intelligence but we're stuck with one of these losers. God help us.

Yep. No matter who wins, the American people are the losers.

[MTAtech]

Although not as negative as that, I feel that for the highest office in the land, this is the best we can do? Perhaps if we had election reform and public financing we could attract a better pool of candidates.

[The Real Bingo]

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Originally Posted by MTAtech

Although not as negative as that, I feel that for the highest office in the land, this is the best we can do? Perhaps if we had election reform and public financing we could attract a better pool of candidates.

I completely and wholeheartedly agree. It's pitiful.

[jokostel]

Something that we can all agree on, and it's mighty damn sad its got to be about something of this nature.

[voogru]

Yay Hillary is losing!

[MTAtech]

This column is brilliant.

Frank Rich nails the conventional wisdom:

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The demographic reshaping of the electoral map, though more widely noted, still isn’t fully understood. From Rust Belt Ohio through Tuesday’s primaries, cable bloviators have been fixated on the older, white, working-class vote. Their unspoken (and truly condescending) assumption, lately embraced by Mrs. Clinton, is that these voters are Reagan Democrats, cryogenically frozen since 1980, who come in two flavors: rubes who will be duped by a politician backing a gas-tax pander or racists who are out of Mr. Obama’s reach.

Guess what: there are racists in America and, yes, the occasional rubes (even among Obama voters). Some of them may reside in Indiana, which hasn’t voted for a national Democratic ticket since 1964. But there are many more white working-class voters, both Clinton and Obama supporters, who prefer Democratic policies after seven years of G.O.P. failure. And there is little evidence to suggest that there are enough racists of any class in America, let alone in swing states, to determine the results come fall.

[pickel]

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Originally Posted by MTAtech

Although not as negative as that, I feel that for the highest office in the land, this is the best we can do? Perhaps if we had election reform and public financing we could attract a better pool of candidates.

Negativity ????? More like REALITY. These people are playing the American citizens for FOOLS and most are being fooled by this sideshow politics. Has any of them firmly asserted exactly how they're going to fulfill all their BS promises. Look at the shameful way the bastards have treated our Veterans. And you really think they give a schitt about you and me MTA ??????? I've as well as all those who have kept their eyes opened, have seen what the last seven years have brought us.
How many BILLIONS have been pissed away and we still have people without healthcare , most of all our brave and hurting VETS. Go talk to them about negativity and see what answer you get. On could go on but I need to keep my heart rate down. Lying Losers...that's all what we wind up with.