"After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," Payne told The Star-Ledger for today's editions. It was "one of the most difficult decisions I have made," Payne said. Obama is going to be our ...
Obama Takes a Victory Lap
nytimes.comFound 7 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, union nod
msnbc.msn.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 17 minutes, and 42 seconds agoThe Obama campaign gained steam Friday with endorsements from a union president and nine superdelegates.
Super Friday Haul for Obama
thepage.time.comFound 6 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes, and 23 seconds agoNet gain: Obama 7, Clinton 1* OBAMA GETS: -Hawaii Rep. Mazie Hirono , New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne, who is switching from Clinton, Oregon Rep. DeFazio. -New Mexico's add-on super Laurie Weahkee. ...
DeFazio throws support to Obama
oregonlive.comFound 6 days, 18 hours, 18 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
Obama narrows Clinton lead in superdelegates
cnn.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 27 minutes, and 1 second agoSen. Barack Obama closed in Friday on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among superdelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.
Super Movement
time-blog.comFound 6 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, and 47 seconds agoA good start to the day in the super department for Mr. Obama: DeFazio throws support to Obama On Thursday night, Rep. Peter DeFazio became Oregon's third Democratic congressman to endorse Sen.Barack Obama, putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer. ...
Obama picks ups 3 superdelegates, union endorsement
chron.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 57 seconds agoBordallo, D-Guam, in the Capitol, Thursday, May 8, 2008 in Washington. Obama's unannounced visit to the Hill during House votes lasted more than half an hour. He told reporters he's not taking the Democratic presidential nomination for granted, and that he was asking members of Congress to support his ...
Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.comFound 6 days, 11 hours, 28 minutes, and 58 seconds agoI'm told reliably that the American Leadership Project -- the big third-party group funded by Hillary-backing unions and major donors -- will not be funding any ads on her behalf in West Virginia. The West Virginia contest this coming Tuesday will obviously be an easy win for Hillary. ...
Obama picks up 5 superdelegates, union endorsement
ap.google.comFound 6 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes, and 48 seconds agoBordallo, D-Guam, in the Capitol, Thursday, May 8, 2008 in Washington. Obama's unannounced visit to the Hill during House votes lasted more than half an hour. He told reporters he's not taking the Democratic presidential nomination for granted, and that he was asking members of Congress to support his ...
9 more superdelegates endorse Obama
latimes.comFound 6 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes, and 52 seconds agoBarack Obama visits Bethlehem Brew Works in Pennsylvania last month. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the crucial race for Democratic superdelegates today as the campaigns turned their sights on Oregon, where balloting by mail is already underway. "This needs to be over and done with by Memorial Day," Espinoza ...
abcnews.go.com
Hillary Clinton to meet with major financial backers next week.
Found 6 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes ago
news.bbc.co.uk
Former Democratic US presidential hopeful John Edwards says Barack Obama is now his party's likely nominee.
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
Found 6 days, 17 hours, 22 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
reuters.com
Clinton is given little chance of winning the nomination but so far is rejecting calls by some prominent Democrats to withdraw from the race and cede the field to Obama, a first-term Illinois senator who crushed Clinton in North Carolina on Tuesday and almost defeated her in Indiana. The New York senator ...
Found 6 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
rss.cnn.com
Sen. Barack Obama closed in Friday on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among superdelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 56 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
cbs2chicago.com
CBS 2 has learned that Barack Obama is ready to celebrate winning the Democratic nomination for president on May 20, the day two more states hold their primaries. Among those offering congratulations on Obama's strong showing Tuesday were several so-far uncommitted superdelegates, people who will ultimately ...
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
news.yahoo.com
Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.
Found 6 days, 46 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
dailykos.com
Today the New York Times weighs in on Hillary Clinton continuing her campaign, saying that while she has the right to to do so:
...we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake - for herself, her party and for the nation - if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones. We believe it would also be a terrible mistake if she launches a fight over the disqualified delegations from Florida and Michigan.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
balloon-juice.com
News delegate estimate.
Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates this morning giving him a new metric to tout in addition to his current commanding leads in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won, and money raised.
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., endorsed Obama. DeFazio was previously uncommitted.
With these endorsements, Obama has the support of 267 superdelegates and Clinton has 265 superdelegates.
Every news organization's superdelegate count is a little different because it is an imperfect science.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 46 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
ghostinthemachine.net
Taken altogether, this means Sen. Obama has picked up +11 to Clinton's +0 since the last update , putting him finally in the superdelegate lead . In addition, John Edwards, despite his recent claim of neutrality , now suggests he voted Obama , and even Clinton canary-in-the-coalmine Rahm Emanuel is now calling Obama "the presumptive nominee ," even if he says he's not endorsing yet. In other words, the party is now backing Obama , and the Fat Lady is practicing her scales. (Clinton, of course, remains in denial .
Found 6 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
time-blog.com
Super Movement
Found 6 days, 17 hours, 8 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
time-blog.com
Congress' job approval in the new Gallup poll ties an all-time low of 18%. Lydia Saad writes in her analysis:
Americans' ratings of Congress are almost always lower than their ratings of the sitting president. With Bush in a period of extremely low approval, and both houses of Congress controlled by the Democratic Party, one might expect that gap to be closer today. And, in fact, it was for a short period after the Democrats first returned to power in Congress at the start of 2007. However, that honeymoon quickly ended (about last August) and since then, Congress has lagged behind the president in approval.
Found 14 days, 14 hours, 11 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
nytimes.com
Race Over or Not, Obama Takes a Victory Lap
Found 6 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
mediabistro.com
Washington Post: Caroline Hax Live
Washington Times: Clinton: Michigan, Florida wins should stand
Washington Examiner: Blogs - Yeas and Nays
N.Y. Times: Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students
L.A. Times: 5 more superdelegates back Obama
USA Today: 10-year-old gives birth in Idaho; Suspected illegal immigrant charged...
Politico: Some still dissing McCain at polls
ABC News: Obama Takes Lead in Superdelegate Tally
CBS News: Political Office In Alec Baldwin's Future?
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 49 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
bluejersey.com
Update : It's official. Payne has switched to Obama: "After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," Payne told The Star-Ledger for today's editions. It was "one of the most difficult decisions I have made," Payne said. "I've really been mulling it over for quite a while." And according to Payne, my theory below is wrong: He said Hillary Clinton "ran a very aggressive campaign" but he did not blame her -- as some have -- for injecting race into the campaign.
Found 6 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
bluejersey.net
Update : It's official. Payne has switched to Obama: "After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," Payne told The Star-Ledger for today's editions. It was "one of the most difficult decisions I have made," Payne said. "I've really been mulling it over for quite a while." And according to Payne, my theory below is wrong: He said Hillary Clinton "ran a very aggressive campaign" but he did not blame her -- as some have -- for injecting race into the campaign.
Found 6 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
demconwatch.blogspot.com
"At this particular time we need to really unite behind one candidate," Payne said. "It's time now for us to pull our party together. The quicker it's over, the better we'll be able to bring all of our forces together." - NJ.com
Found 6 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
blueoregon.com
Yesterday night, Congressman Peter DeFazio endorsed Barack Obama, becoming the third US Representative from Oregon to do so.
From the Oregonian :
On Thursday night, Rep. Peter DeFazio became Oregon's third Democratic congressman to endorse Sen.Barack Obama, putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer to the presidential nomination.
DeFazio said that Obama, who will begin a two-day campaign trip to the state this morning, "represents our best chance of winning in November."
"We must not allow Senator McCain to continue the failures of the Bush foreign policy, war in Iraq and disastrous economic policies," DeFazio added.
Found 6 days, 18 hours, 17 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
donklephant.com
This is almost the exact same post I wrote a couple days ago, and so far she's simply running in place, unable to add any to her total.
First, she lost Rep. Donald Payne from New Jersey with the congressman citing the reason as trying to pull the party together…
Found 6 days, 17 hours, 19 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
firstread.msnbc.msn.com
*** Where we stand: In addition to the two congressional superdelegates (Reps. Brad Miller of NC and Rick Larsen of WA) he picked up yesterday, Obama added two more overnight (Reps. Peter DeFazio of OR and Donald Payne of NJ). Payne had previously backed Clinton, so that takes one away from her total, but she made that up with the backing this morning of Rep. Chris Carney of PA. Here's the count: PLEDGED: Obama 1590, Clinton 1426; SUPERS: Clinton 273.5, Obama 264; TOTAL: Obama 1854, Clinton 1699.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
dailykos.com.
Today the New York Times weighs in on Hillary Clinton continuing her campaign, saying that while she has the right to to do so:
...we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake - for herself, her party and for the nation - if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones. We believe it would also be a terrible mistake if she launches a fight over the disqualified delegations from Florida and Michigan.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
amhersttimes.wnymedia.net
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Found 6 days, 15 hours, 37 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
blogs.wsj.com
told the New Mexico Independent that she supports Obama. "After the primary elections in Indiana and North Carolina, it is now absolutely clear that Barack Obama will be our nominee," Weahkee told the newspaper in an emailed statement. "Obama has proven that he can campaign in a difficult environment and still inspire thousands of new voices to take part in the democratic process.
Found 6 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
bloodthirstyliberal.com
CNN stumbles across the story:
Some say it could send a sobering message to Obama's Democratic supporters.
West Virginia is expected to go for Clinton big time -- and the polls show it.
Clinton has a 43-point advantage over Obama, 66 percent to 23 percent, according to a survey from the American Research Group released Friday.
…
"This state is really Hillary Clinton's wheelhouse. It's an older population, socially conservative, blue-collar workers," said Kennie Bass, a political reporter for WCHS in West Virginia.
Found 6 days, 11 hours, 54 minutes ago
wactivist.com
Obama narrows Clinton lead in superdelegates - CNN.com via kwout
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 43 minutes, and 1 second ago
phronesisaical.blogspot.com
poll (via TPM ):
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
gaysocialites.com
This presidential election is really starting to make my head hurt.
I feel like a hurricane hit the democratic process, and we're still cleaning up five years later.
A lot happened on Friday. Barack Obama picked up a lot of super delegates , Hillary Clinton gained support in the polls and John Edwards almost intentionally came one step short of endorsing Obama.
What does this all mean?
The root of all this evil stems from Michigan and Florida's decision to move their primary dates ahead of the infamous Super Duper Tuesday.
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
geniusofinsanityworld.blogspot.com
Meanwhile, Obama picked up five new super delegates today which puts him only 4 away from over-taking Clinton .
Found 6 days, 9 hours, 49 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
latimesblogs.latimes.com
While everyone keeps running through the math of the Democratic primary battle, Barack Obama's campaign already has come up with its own bottom line: The contest effectively ends on May 20.
There are 217 pledged delegates up for grabs in the remaining six primaries, fewer than the number of as-yet-undeclared superdelegates. The Obama camp will bolster its efforts to court these votes this weekend, when it kicks off a 50-state voter registration drive .
Each of the remaining contests lines up neatly for one candidate or the other-- West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico for Clinton, and Oregon, South Dakota and Montana for Obama.
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, and 1 second ago
blogrevolution.com
Talking Points Memo (#) :
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
d-day.blogspot.com
It's kind of funny that the Obama fans in the blogosphere were the ones worried about the superdelegates deciding the nomination in favor of Hillary instead of "the people," when in reality they're deciding it for Obama . Which is their right, and considering that it's completely within the DNC rules and there's no "real math" that ought to be stopping them, I say good. There's certainly no additional information that they need. According to Obama's tabulations, he's 160 delegates from clinching the nomination.
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
examiner.com
Obama grabs superdelegate lead
Found 6 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
blogd.com
Update : In Kentucky, Clinton goes on about how Obama is unelectable, that he will lose to McCain, and that he is disregarding the people of that state and others like it.
However you slice it, Hillary is not changing her tactics, and more and more people have got to be wondering: what is her end game here?
Found 5 days, 16 hours, 15 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
nydailynews.com
Rep Charlie Rangel slammed Hillary Clinton (whom he supports), for making a "dumb" comment about her support with "white Americans."
The Rev. Al Sharpton told NY1's Dominic Carter last night that Clinton needs to realize "it's over." (No link).
Many of Clinton's New York supporters are sticking by her - so far.
New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne switched his support from Clinton to Barack Obama, who was also endorsed by Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio.
Obama took a victory lap at the Capitol .
Found 6 days, 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
marcambinder.theatlantic.com
09 May 2008 08:14 am
** Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA) endorses HRC. (+1)
** Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) endorses Obama (+0)
** Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) switches from Clinton to Obama (-2)
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matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com
09 May 2008 08:40 am
After Tuesday's results, I kind of expected a Wednesday superdelegate flood to Barack Obama. It didn't really materialize, though he did pick up some ground. And Thursday was the same way. And now looking at my inbox, it seems like more of the same as Rep. Peter DeFazio endorses Obama while Rep. Donald Payne switches from Clinton to Obama . Stuff on this scale doesn't -- and can't -- lead to a knockout blow, it's more of a death by a thousand cuts thing with the handful of superdelegate defections being especially damaging.
Found 6 days, 17 hours, 57 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
rifuture.org
Love the One you're With : Obama continues to close Clinton's superdelegate lead as New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne tells The Star-Ledger he's switching from Clinton to Obama . Today, Obama also has won the support of Oregon super Rep. DeFazio and superdelegate John Gage and his union, the American Federation of Government Employees . Yesterday, Obama grabbed two other Congressmen: Rep. Rick Larsen from Washington state and Rep. Brad Miller from North Carolina. Need Directions?
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
bhfrick.dailykos.com
Today the New York Times weighs in on Hillary Clinton continuing her campaign, saying that while she has the right to to do so:
...we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake - for herself, her party and for the nation - if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones. We believe it would also be a terrible mistake if she launches a fight over the disqualified delegations from Florida and Michigan.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama closed in Friday on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among supedelegates, the Democratic party officials who hold the balance of power in determining which one will be the party's nominee for president in November.
The Obama campaign announced the support of two new superdelegates early Friday morning -- including one who had been backing Clinton. Clinton also announced a new supporter, maintaining her lead over the Illinois senator, but only by a handful of delegates.
Found 6 days, 16 hours, 26 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
mnmonitor.com
Something's wrong with this picture: Yesterday, even as Hillary fundraising stalwart Harvey Weinstein was reportedly pulling out all the stops to get Nancy Pelosi's backing for a five-minutes-to-midnight revoting plan for Florida and Michigan, Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe appeared on the Today Show to suggest it would all end soon :
"It'll be over early June... We've all said we'll be together at the end. If Hillary doesn't win, Hillary, (former) President (Bill) Clinton, myself, we'll be over there helping Senator Obama.
Found 6 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
indistinctunion.wordpress.com
To quote Stephen Colbert, "I called it." Here .
I said that Obama passing Clinton in superdelegates would take away the final arrow in the Clinton quiver so that even her upcoming wins in WV and KY would likely be (mostly) ignored.
NyTimes and ABCNews have Obama as of today passing Clinton.
First Read has Obama within 4 . He has picked up net 7 just today. And doing so on Friday adds further talking points for the Sunday talk shows.
And one other big superdelegate on the horizon (with himself 30+ other delegates pledged to him he could release)?
Found 6 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
marclafountain.com
Obama Picks up 9 Superdelegates, Union Endorsement
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
theonlywinningmove.blogspot.com
Obama has just picked up three -- make that five -- superdelegate endorsements, compared with one for Hillary. One of these, in fact, switched from backing her to backing him. I think it's safe to say that this will turn into a steady trickle ahead of Tuesday. If the DNC has any behind-the-curtains opinions, they pretty much need to act now. I don't think anyone would cry foul if a sizeable number of superdelegates pledged for Obama at this point. People definitely would if they pledged for Hillary, though I've noted , and David Limbaugh makes the case more persuasively , that it would be unfair if they did.
Found 6 days, 8 hours, 28 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
willrhodes1961.wordpress.com
Now the distance between Clinton and Obama is even closer still - even her pledged super-delegates are swapping over to Obama.
What does that mean for the race itself? Not much if you listen to the Clinton camp she still believes that she can win - remember yesterday with the humiliation? She would rather do that than dignifyingly leave the race.
Maybe she will after her predictable win in W Virginia. She had her chance this week to go, now this is a time where she can split the Democratic party - I don't think she will, but you never know when a person is being obliterated in such a way.
Found 6 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
myapologies.wordpress.com
While this is not suprising, it is curious that, according to the AP count, Senator Clinton still leads in superdelegates. What is more curious is that she leads by half a superdelegate. Check out MSNBC.com:
The developments left the former first lady with 271.5 superdelegates , to 271 for Obama, according to an Associated Press count.
This can only mean one of two things: There exisits a superdelegate who is only half-heartedly supporting Hillary. Or, my other theory: Mini Me has been secretly included as an honorary superdelegate.
Found 6 days, 5 hours, 23 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
While each news organization's super-delegate count varies, Barack Obama has reached a new milestone: According to ABC News, the first news outlet to declare this, he has overtaken Hillary Clinton in support among super-delegates by a score of 267-265.
In a further sign of political decline for Hillary Clinton, African-American Congressman Donald Payne of New Jersey has now switched his allegiance from Clinton over to Barack Obama. "It's time now for us to pull our party together," Payne told the Newark Star-Ledger .
Found 6 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com
Eugene Robinson, an op-ed columnist at Washington Post believes what she is really saying to the superdelegates is, "There's no way that white people are going to vote for the black guy. Come November, you'll be sorry."
Found 6 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
boomantribune.com
The drumbeat continues:
If Sen. Barack Obama needs a mere 170 more delegate votes to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination outright, he just got one vote closer.
That's because Laurie Weahkee, New Mexico's newest -- and most coveted -- superdelegate, just threw her support behind Obama. "After the primary elections in Indiana and North Carolina, it is now absolutely clear that Barack Obama will be our nominee," Weahkee, lead organizer for the Native American Voters Alliance, writes in a statement e-mailed to the Independent.
Found 6 days, 10 hours, 52 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
