The delegate fight: Obama wins WY

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:02 AM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 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?

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Ever notice how jaycee can have multiple postings on different subjects, at the same time?

ceejay (Sent Monday, March 10, 2008 11:15 AM)

In the unlikely event that Barack Obama loses eleven caucuses or primaries in a row, I hope the media will provide equal treatment and chatter 24/7 about how he can make his "comeback" -- equal to the great favor the media did for Hillary Clinton prior to the Ohio and Texas events.

Chuck in Denver (Sent Monday, March 10, 2008 1:05 PM)

Obama needs to drive the point that THE WAR IN IRAQ IS HAVING SERIOUS NEGATIVE EFFECTS on our economy and that those who voted for the war should be to blame, in part, for the state of the US economy.

Ok, concerned about the economy, look how the WAR IN IRAQ is affecting the US economy...

$3,000,000,000 - $3 Billion PER WEEK! - That’s the amount we're paying for the Iraq War– money that should have been used here, at home.

Add to this:

Interest (because we're financing the war with borrowed money through treasuries)

Higher oil and energy prices. Instability in Iraq is adding roughly 30 dollars per barrel as a premium.

Higher oil prices mean demand shifts to other sources of energy like nat gas, coal, etc. and greater demand will raise the equilibrium price of other sources of energy -- Can you say high energy bills?

Higher oil prices (a raw material used in the production of many goods, fertilizers, gasoline, diesel, plastics, etc.) mean higher prices of goods and services -- Can you say INFLATION?

Higher oil prices mean a higher trade deficit because most of our oil comes from foreign sources. A higher trade deficit means more money is leaving the country than is coming into the country -- Can you say 'Goodbye money!'

Our dollar is weak, weak, weak. Since we have a trade deficit, the value of goods and services we import exceeds the value of goods we export. You know that foreign car you're thinking of buying or the computer you're using, or that trip abroad you've been thinking of taking....well, guess what? It's going to cost more, Ceteris Peribus, because the dollar is weak, weak, weak.

Lastly, how do you think the world views our country because of this war? The evidence was weak and circumstantial, yet we rushed into war with Iraq while our enemy was in other countries. -- Can you say goodbye to trust building with other countries?

Mary P (Sent Monday, March 10, 2008 3:50 PM)

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