The delegate fight: Obama wins WY
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:02 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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Democrats
Per the
AP, “Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination… Obama had 61 percent, or 5,378 votes, to Clinton's 38 percent, or 3,312 votes, with all 23 Wyoming counties reporting. Obama won seven delegates and Clinton won five.”
In a front-page piece in Sunday’s Washington Post, Dan Balz writes that Clinton’s wins over Obama last week in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas appear “to have convinced a sizable number of uncommitted Democratic superdelegates to wait until the end of the primaries and caucuses before picking a candidate, according to a survey by The Washington Post Many of the 80 uncommitted superdelegates who were contacted over the past several days said they are reluctant to override the clear will of voters. But if Clinton (N.Y.) and Obama (Ill.) are still seen as relatively close in the pledged, or elected, delegate count in June, many said, they will feel free to decide for themselves which of the candidates would make a stronger nominee to run against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the fall.”
The remaining superdelegates will likely be swayed by electability more than anything else.
On the Florida and Michigan front, Al Sharpton is heading to the Sunshine State today "to compile lists of residents who skipped the January contest because they thought their votes would not count. He plans to have those residents sign affidavits saying they would be disenfranchised by the seating of the Florida delegation, in the event the Democratic Party allowed that to happen."
Will Florida wind up being a mail-in primary?
