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Clinton picks up MA add on

Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:27 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Clinton picked up Massachusetts superdelegate add-on Arthur Powell today. So far today, that's one apiece for Obama and Clinton.

The NBC NEWS delegate counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,590, Clinton 1,426
SUPERS: Clinton 278.5, Obama 270
TOTAL: Obama 1,860, Clinton 1,704.5

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In previous message Cummin was add-on for 270 ... what gives?
Thank you to Superdelegate Arthur Powell from MA...didn't Senator Clinton win MA?

At least someone in MA is following the will of the people...another man of conviction!!!
Is this the one guy still rooting for his team in the NBA Eastern Conference finals down 20 in the fourt quarter with under a minute to play in game 7.  You know the guy.  He's in the stands all by himself cheering for the Clinton team to score a touchdown.  He's wearing a football helmet to a basketball game.  The only thing you can think is "WTF?".  Then you notice the guy at the end of the row with a whole group similar people, keeping a watchful eye.  Then you realize that these people will probably be taking the "little bus" home.  You figure "ah what the heck, time is just about out anyway."  No need to break it to them that its all over.  Nor that the team is playing basketball and not football.        
Just read that in WV the Democratice party leadership is making comments that Obama does not sound American.There is a lot of prejudice in the USA but to state it as a fact by party leaders that African American can not be elected is sickening.  I am from Kansas an I have never heard such racial comments from the Democratic leadership since the 1960's.  Obama has no chance to win WV with Democratic leaders making these comments.  In the last half of the first decade of the 21st century we need to move beyond race.  The USA is no longer the sole economic super power.  We can not compete globally if we can not unite as a country.  I am both saddened and ashamed of these so called public servants who have taken the well worn path of ignorance and divisiveness.  We as a country need to be better than that. Obama has a legitimate chance with new voters, independents and African American voters and with the right VP can bring in a cross section of voters to win in the fall.  Yet if the Democratic leaders take the low road they will inherit the wind.
What makes me crazy is that all the pundits and media are saying that the super delegates should not overturn the will of the voters.

I may be wrong, but based on the large blue states that she has won - if all the elected house members voted as their district did, and senators voted as their state did, and non-elected supers voted as their state did - she would be ahead in supers - enough to win the nomination. No one in the media is doing that math…to afraid to go there???

Hillary should run as an independant.....
This does not change the facts, that the party is OVER.  Hillary should gracefully bow out after the last primaries.  A huge win in West Virginia is expected but, the facts still will not change.  It is absolutely amazaing that she is, as I speak, at a rally claiming that she is the better candidate.  What will it take for her to quit.

SD's you must open to faucet and let your votes start flowing.  She stated today, "I may stumble, I may fall down but I will always get up."  My fellow Americans, Hillary does not get it.  SD's this is urgent, please tell her the truth.  
Hillary continues to say she has "consistently" said votes in FL and MI should count ... without adding that she has said that "since she got so far behind!"   In FL Obama did not campaign, and we have seen in state after state that when he went into that state personally, his numbers went up.  Counting FL as is also ignores the fact that many did not go to the polls because they were told their vote wouldn't count.  In MI, well, any idiot knows that it is absurb to count MI as is.  
I think the count should be 274 for Obama...Today 2 more superdelegates endorsed Obama..both from Virgin Islands and one of them is a switch from Clinton to Obama
First Lady elegant, slender, Kennedy-esque, Michelle Obama and Barack have taken the lead against Clinton's SDs;  that's what really matters. Michelle will bring camelot back to the White House and change. What a classy, no- nonsense First Lady she will be.
Another interesting tidbit Hillary is celebrating Mother's Day on the campaign trail.  She has reduced herself to telling the mostly women audience what etiquette her mother taught her as a child. She really has nothing to talk about. Her mother even taught her how to use the proper knife and fork; i can't understand taught her how to use the Knife…??????????

We-e-el-l-l-l, she did not say if the knife etiquette lesson included giving it to another person. Neither did she mention anything about not telling Lies. Interesting, maybe it’s in the genes.
Also,  Barack supporters need to know:
CAMPAIGN RULES DO NOT ALLOW BARACK TO PAY HER DEBTS; BUT HE CAN DO FUNDRAISING for her.  Hillary then bows out gracefully with dignity; and is proud enough to show her supporters she fought to the BITTER end. I hope she keeps her word.

Or she employs Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh (her new friends) pay her debts. Next, she should take courses in accounting and crisis management.
Those would be Hillary's SMART CHOICES.

If Hillary can't manage her money; certainly she is not the stronger candidate; no matter how many coalitions she has.
the fact that she nnounces ONE does mean that she did not get the 2 she was expected to get?!  
Hillary, It's time to concede the race and unite the Party.  Be the Leader you claim to be.
She got a whole one superdelegate.  Whoopee.  Obama is starting to run scared now.    


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