West Virginia Primary…Big Whoop

Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in the West Virginia Primary.

Obama still leads in delegates with 1,881, now just 144 short of the 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination. Clinton has 1,713 — 312 short.(source)

ABC News Reports Obama Leads in Superdelegates

It’s a wrap! From ABC News:

ABC News’ Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton’s support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate.

Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates this morning giving him a new metric to tout in addition to his current commanding leads in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won, and money raised.

Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., endorsed Obama. DeFazio was previously uncommitted.

With these endorsements, Obama has the support of 267 superdelegates and Clinton has 265 superdelegates.

Every news organization’s superdelegate count is a little different because it is an imperfect science. Since October 2007, the Political Unit has continuously reached out to the nearly 800 superdelegates to determine their candidate preference. We also reach out regularly to the Obama and Clinton campaigns for their superdelegate lists and work to confirm any that they include on their lists.

Clinton’s advantage among superdelegates was once massive and has been dwindling steadily since Super Tuesday, when she was ahead by over 60 superdelegates.

Clinton’s institutional support from within the Democratic Party allowed her to build a commanding lead in superdelegates over Obama in the early part of this nomination battle.

Despite several rough weeks on the campaign trail, Obama has maintained momentum in picking up superdelegates. Obama has outpaced Clinton at every marker of this campaign since Super Tuesday — after the controversial comments of Rev. Wright came out, after Clinton’s big win in Pennsylvania and after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

Below are the superdelegate tallies, as of this morning, from other news organizations:

ABC
OBAMA 267
CLINTON 265

CBS
CLINTON 271
OBAMA 261

CNN
CLINTON 268
OBAMA 258

NBC
CLINTON 274
OBAMA 260

AP
CLINTON 271.5
OBAMA 266

New York Times
CLINTON 263
OBAMA 258

Politico
CLINTON 268.5
OBAMA 260

Washington Post (uses AP statistics)
CLINTON 271
OBAMA 256

Time Magazine Names Obama the "Winner"

I absolutely love this cover….

Now Time magazine is declaring Sen. Barack Obama the democratic nominee. He is featured on the latest edition of the magazine titled “And The Winner* Is…” I love the asterisk symbol on “winner”. At the bottom of the cover it says “Really, we’re pretty sure this time”. Hilarious! I guess the asterisk is just in case Miss Hillary and her clan decided to pull some last minute shenanigans to steal the nomination. As an Obama supporter, I holding off on my celebration. I will wait, til May 20th after the Oregon primaries to do my shouting. I wouldn’t put anything past those shady Clintons to figure out a way to pull the rug from under Obama.

However, with Obama picking new superdelegates in New Jersey and Oregon and getting the endorsement of the American Federation of Government Employees its just a matter of time before we can truly call him the Democratic Nominee for President.

In the meantime I plan to pick up a couple of issues of Time to keep as souvenirs. One day I’ll be able to show my baby girl the picture of the first Black President of the United States!

Who Are You Calling ‘Elitist’?

“People who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones” — unknown

So now Miss Hillary is trying to tag Obama as an elitist after a statement he made regarding his troubles winning over white working-class voters at a fundraiser in San Fransisco last Sunday. A statement he made privately and OFF THE RECORD! I might add. In explaining his lack of support from that group of voters, apparently Obama said….

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

The Clinton campaign is focusing on the word “bitter”. Apparently, ‘bitter’ is a the new ‘nigger’ for the white working-class. Clinton and co. have even been passing out “I’m not bitter” buttons to supporters at campaign stops. In fact, the next time you get in an argument with a white working-class person, call them ‘bitter’ and see if it starts a fight.

First of all that comment is taken so out of context, its ridiculous. In fact, go here to read the entire transcript of his comments.

Secondly, I don’t even get how that statement is even offensive? Let see, the economy sucks and because of NAFTA (which was Miss Hillary’s husband’s baby) many of those jobs held by the working-class have gone overseas. People are losing their homes because of predatory lending, gas is at all time high and then there’s Iraq. Hmmmm…….I would imagine there would be some bitter folks out there. And now Hillary with her degrees from Wellesley and Yale is accusing Obama, who has degrees from Columbia and Harvard as elitist.

I think Miss “I dodged sniper fire in Bosnia” might want to back-up from the name-calling. After all Sen. Obama could call her a ‘liar’ and technically he wouldn’t be wrong. What ticks me off about this so-called scandal is how Clinton and some in the mainstream press continue to focus on the word ‘bitter’ without talking about the entire context of the comment. And now Obama is apologizing or trying to explain something that needs no explanation and is a big NON ISSUE. I guess for the Clinton klan, its —if you can’t beat him (in the delegates), lets try to create drama so the superdelegates will go my way.

Don’t Call it a Comeback…just yet

We Obamaholics got a reality check last night. And probably a much needed one. Yes, our boy only won Vermont, out of four contests with Texas and Ohio being the most important. But all is not lost. He’s ahead in the Texas caucuses as I write this which will increase his delegate count (if he wins). And while the loses are hard to take, Miss Hillary is still behind in the total number of delegates. And with the Wyoming caucuses and the Mississippi primary coming up, Obama stands to increase his lead in delegates. In addition, these wins were not even landslide victories. Only in Rhode Island did Hillary beat Obama by more than 15 points (Hillary 58%, Obama 40%). Even if she wins Pennsylvania next month, she will still not have enough delegates to secure the nomination. The nomination is going to be decided at the Democratic convention in August, where the issue of the superdelegates is going to make this race the political Thrilla in Manilla.

Who are the Superdelegates in Your Neighborhood?

With all the talk about the superdelegates possibly deciding who gets the Democratic nomination, many people are wondering what is a superdelegate and who are they. Check out Superdelegates.org. This site gives you the history of superdelegates in the Democratic Party and a listing of every superdelegate in the 50 states and who they have endorsed. This site even tells you where these superdelegates are located via Google Maps and Google Earth. So if the superdelegates in your area didn’t endorse your candidate or haven’t endorsed a candidate, you can uh…give em a shout out. But be nice. No need in going to jail for stalking or nothing.