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Delegate update: OH delegates adjusted

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:26 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
NBC News has adjusted the pledged delegate count in Ohio, adding one for Obama and subtracting one for Clinton. Despite Clinton's double-digit victory, she netted seven delegates (74-67).

Obama now leads by 166 pledged delegates, 1,417-1,251, and leads overall by 142 delegates, 1,652-1,510.

Clinton leads in superdelegates, 259-235. (Neither David Boren nor Sam Nunn, who endorsed Obama today, are superdelegates.)

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And this is why the caucus process is dumb!  

Obama = not ready for the general election
Hillary Clinton new campaign slogan:

"Democrats for McCain"
Hillary Clinton the only real Republican Candidate....
Picture this: tall, youthful, warm, Obama with his strong, down to earth wife at his side, dueling with the elderly McCain, he of the hair trigger temper, and his robotic beer heiress Stepford wife. The contest will not even be close. And ABC will be in fourth place in the ratings. Oh yes.
Washington State is going to adjust their delegate count too due to a combination of factors: Clinton precinct delegates not showing up for the district causues 2 weeks ago; undecided precint caucus delegates almost universally siding with Obama; and a small number of Clinton delegates switching sides.  Obama is going to pick up 1 or 2 national convention delegates when the state Deocratic party holds its convention next month. This was reported in the local press last week, but for some reason they did not do the math on the overall delgate count.
YES WE CAN!!! Obama 08!

Yes We know you can. We've seen all the cities and states you've ruined with your liberal policies. YES YOU CAN!!!
We just don't want you screwing up our states.
NO YOU WON'T
Besides even if you win the laughs on you. Liberals always hurt the ones they pretend to care about.
Hey if you're so bitter about this nomination fight that you'd be willing to vote for a man who wants to continue the Iraq War for a 100 years, who would be willing to spend billions of dollar a year overseas and give tax breaks understand.  I understand.  I just hope you can look your children in the eyes when they're growing up without fathers, in huge debt, and when we are no longer a superpower in the world.  If you can look at your children in the eye and believe that they will be better off then you are, well I wish you the best.
I'ts gonna take a "Village" to carry Hillary out of this race, she won't go easily, she thinks she's entitled!
People have stopped dreaming Hillary’s "Impossible Dream". Hopefully, Clintonites will not vote McCain the GE or home because they are bitter. They will think of the Supreme Court; I hope.

BTW; is it ironic that those were close to Clintons seem to emerge when the race becomes totally ludicrous and divisive; like Richardson and Reich?
They may not be superdelegates, but Nunn and Boren are huge gets for Obama.
Will NBC please explain HOW Obama gets an extra pledged delegate in Ohio? The math is quite clear, check greenpapers.com. The closest district is CD 1 and Obama is over 600 votes short of getting an extra delegate there! So what gives?
Elaine, Muscatine, Iowa (Sent Friday, April 18, 2008 1:58 PM) said:

"Why when they talk about the popular vote lead do they not mention the caucus states? These states went overwhelmingly for Obama but they do not report popular votes like primary states do. Any claim by Clinton would force the Dem Party to factor those in and conservative estimates give Obama a lead of 2 -3 million votes; not the 700,000 number the MSM keeps talking about."

Elaine, how are you counting the caucusers? Since very few people vote in caucuses, it wouldn't add up to 2-3 million people.

IOWA -- 940 votes for OB
ALASKA- 302 votes for OB
MAINE-- 2000 votes for OB

See, caucus states aren't democratic... a few hundred folks make the choice for millions and the bullies win because they push and intimidate their guy into the lead. End result, though, is you get very few votes for your candidate. So, if you want to add in baruck's couple hundred fans, go'head.

Hillary is the stronger, smarter, more savvy candidate...for certain.


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