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Delegates: Obama gets UT add on

Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:47 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Obama picked up Utah superdelegate add-on Kristi Cumming.

The NBC NEWS delegate counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,590, Clinton 1,426
SUPERS: Clinton 277.5, Obama 270
TOTAL: Obama 1,860, Clinton 1,703.5.

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Where does MSNBC get their delegate count?  By my count Obama is now ahead in super delegates, that's at least 10 in the last two days.  
Why is MSNBC/NBC's super delegate count (277.5) for Hillary so much higher than the rest of the media sources?

277.5 vs 270.5 (Dem Convention Watch)
277.5 vs 272 (CNN)
277.5 vs 272 (AP -- I'm guessing CNN is using AP numbers or vice versa).

Even if you add the "3" that the Clinton camp reported, NBC's is still higher.  If you guys are using a spreadsheet, it's pretty easy to find duplicates across the candidates or within a candidate.  Do you have the 9 defections from Hillary to Obama?

just wondering!

Number Junkie
As she continues her slash-and-burn-end-justifies-the-means campaign, more and more supers will come out for Obama to put an end to this dog-and-pony show called Hillary Clinton.
Hillary still doesn't get it...

She is a stuborn Arkansas mule.

The problem for her is, she's running
against Secretariat!

Game over!
Could it be that Hillary is actually helping Barack by staying in the race. First by challenging "hard working white americans" voting sensibilities. Secondly by staying and not letting Barack loses in Kentucky and West Virginia to a non campaigning candidate, how embarrassing would that be. I am an ardent Obama supporter but I am starting to understand the deeper dynamics of politics. Thanks Hillary I see your helping hand.
Could it be that Hillary is actually helping Barack by staying in the race. First by challenging "hard working white americans" voting sensibilities. Secondly by staying and not letting Barack loses in Kentucky and West Virginia to a non campaigning candidate, how embarrassing would that be. I am an ardent Obama supporter but I am starting to understand the deeper dynamics of politics. Thanks Hillary I see your helping hand.
Hillary please..... will you just stop this divisive rhetoric.  I support your right to remain in the race until June 3rd.  But let's make a deal.  You stay in the race until the end of the primary cycle then do the following:

1.  At your last campaign stop on the front porch of a white, uneducated, old female supporter, (Your words not mines) I want you to sing this, and sing it like Ol' Blue Eyes, that is Frank Sinatra for you youngsters:

Hillary's Way

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no... not me,
I did it my way.
the clintons are true to form ,if they cant have their own way and be given the nomination they will bring the party down,if they cant have it no one can, they are an embarrasment, the western world watches in disgust.
Enjoy Obamamaniacs.  Your happiness will not last.  No way Obama can win the middle class white vote. Sorry!!  McCain will prevail and he will get the vote and financial support of this staunch democrat.
Obama is a pig in a poke.

Can Obama pass a FBI security clearance???  I wonder.

Come on and bring on the dirt on Obama and give his a mud bath (fitting for a pig in a poke).  
Someone please tell Hillary that THIS 'older white woman' (age 55 and proud of it), from working class roots, with male relatives who are all blue collar and who tote those guns hunting, AND who switched from a Republican registration of 30 plus years thinks Obama is the freshest breath of air to hit this nation in my lifetime. Maybe I finally can believe that someone will hit Washington who won't have sold his soul before he ever got there. And yeah, I am one of the people who is proud to say that I am frustrated, angry, and maybe even bitter at the way Washington jacks us around, pretending that our hard earned dollars are 'Monopoly' money for them to waste and spend to enrich themselves instead of putting them to good use for the American people.

Go Barack!! (and Michelle-you will be a classy, inspirational role model for any young person of any race, creed, or gender when you become first lady..)
Go Obama go, Please do not give VP post to Hillary,
Don't do it, find someone that will work you and trust you, OBAMA 08 /12
To Donna, Dave, & Michelle (both of you):

I - and 90% of us here - agree with you ENTIRELY!  Come on, SD's, bring 'em on to let Hateful Republican Clinton off her own hook!

Please see www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/09/clinton-supporters-send-1_n_100979 to see the newest, LOWEST depth the Clinton camp has acheived!  You will NOT believe what you read!  It's about her camp barraging some of the Undecided Supers with emails slandering, well OUTRIGHT LYING, on Obama!  Still can't believe what they did!  Check it out!

I apologize to all of you Super Delegates fot my fellow American's INFRINGING on your PRIVACY as they did to you yesterday, pummeling you with all of that UNTRUTH.  Sen. Obama has NEVER talked about Hilly & her maniacs like that...EVER!!!  And I feel that Ms. Clinton should PUBLICLY apologize to Sen. Obama, his supporters, AND you SD's for that dispicable behavior & verbiage!

Be careful, Clinton-ite's, you will reap what you've sown eventually!
Donna, Donna, Obama's whole campaign has been pandering.  Where have you been???  

Obama went to 57 states he said.  Was that fair??? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!  
Killing her softly...
Hillary,  Obama SD endordsements continue to roll in because You focus on how we are divided, and Obama mantra is, "We'll change this country together."  CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE?  We fellow Americans, want a change, and we want it now. He has surpassed you n the SD count, soon that will be the case with the pledged delegate count.  We cannot wait.
Hillary's continuation in this process has less to do with allowing everyone to have a voice as it is about her.  I had always been a fan, but not anymore. For the greater good, she should at the very least in the remaining photo ops, dicuss the damage a President McCain could do to the country, and stop the Republican style denegration of her fellow Democrat.

I guess if it really is over I will have to vote republican, which is against my thoughts, but we must have a President with experience and the freshman senator from Illinois has no experience. Scares the crap out of me.
Hey everybody,

Obama was just here at the University of Oregon last night. He has pulled even  (or ahead, depending on your sources) of HRC in superdelegates. Now there is no metric she can use to win. Sure she'll wrap  up West Virginia. Sure they'll bang that drum loudly. But worry not, Oregon has got it taken care of. Most Obama voters here have already voted (we vote by mail or drop off in secure ballot box locations). On or around May 20th, your presumptive next president will be official. Senator Obama. Let's change the world.
With the Ohio add-on, Obama's total is 1869 as of today.  But your front page is only showing 1859.  And your articles are all over the spectrum...how about some accuracy?


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