The flood: Obama 14 away

Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:56 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
The last hour has seen a flurry of endorsements for Obama, and he is now within just 14 delegates of crossing the needed 2,118. He's gotten 13.5 since the last update. The past hour has also seen a few switches from Clinton to Obama, including Rep. Maxine Waters, and DNC members from California and Delaware.

We will update with the details... but for now here are the counts:

COUNTDOWN TO THE NOMINATON:
OBAMA: 14
CLINTON: 200

The NBC NEWS Delegate Counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1729 to 1625
SUPERS: Obama 354 to 293
EDWARDS PL.: Obama 21 to 0
OVERALL: Obama 2,104 to 1,918

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Comments

Robin (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:19 PM)

YES!!!!

TB Georgia (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:29 PM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tdF5cfOXrs

tommy, chicago, il (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:33 PM)

History repeats its self; from the early years of the womens movement till now, they have to settle with being second

Obama 08 Baby

nahaekai (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:34 PM)

I as a hispanic woman will vote for Obama only if Hillary is in the ticket for VP. Otherwise I am sorry but I will stay at home on election day.

Fca. Rhoads, Fort Worth Texas
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As a hispanic woman, you already voted for Hillary Clinton and she lost!! How do say "get a life" in Spanish??

Chicago - South Side (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:35 PM)

For those sore losers who will vote McCain because Hillary lost to Obama; you guys are phony /generic demorcrats and war mongers for supporting a candidate that voted for the war in Iraq, grow up and get over it!!
Obama 08 Baby

nahaekai (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:39 PM)

I will vote for Obama in November unless Clinton is the VP candidate. I will not wait around for her to have Obama killed so she can be President. She is a snake and would stoop to anything to get what she wants.

Linda Smith (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:42 PM)

America is not racist..its SEXIST
hillary got robbed..hijacked and its an outrage, ive been a democrat for 35yrs..im voting mccain, and im sure many more like me will be thanked for helping mccain over OSAMA.

VOTE FOR MCCAIN!!!

we still love you hillary..its not your fauilt you were robbed by a racist..sexist anti american pig.

Robin
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Sorry!!

Hillary signed an agreement to not campaign in FL & MI just the same as Obama and John Edwards lady!!!

Hillary tried to activate the anti-sexist base when she cried in NH!

Hillary tried to activate the Archie Bunker base with her comments before KY & WV!!

Hillary even tried to activate the Oswald base with her comments relating to RFK!!

What she didnt do is run a smart, effective campaign!

Touting experience when all of hers came compliments of her husband and now her supporters want to claim sexism!

Her base is exactly like her, they cling to loosely related, readily available facts that dont explain how she lost this election!!

Realize that her campaign was TOTALLY(negatively) reactive, not proactive like the Obama campaign!

Im white! I have it tough cause I'm a woman! I'm powerful!, I'm entitled!

Fortunately, the majority of people in America were smarter than that!

Chicago - South Side (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:49 PM)

lol I think Robin from the bottom of the first page should call herself Republican Robin. Don't believe all this "Vote McCain" nonsense...it's the Grand Oil Party trying to stir the pot lol GO OBAMA! Go DEMS! GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain=Bush=4 more years of AGONY & DESPAIR 4 THE WORLD (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:50 PM)

I watched he civil rights movement as a child and a teenager and I never thought in my lifetime I would see an African-American candidate for president of a ajor political party and have a better than even chance of winning. Thank you Americans for heeding Dr. King's words that one day we will judge a person not on the color of his skin but on the content of his character. This is truly historic and I do wish Dr. King was here to see it.

I am a 59 year retired white male who cannot wait to vote for Barack.

Dave, AZ (Sent Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:52 PM)

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