Friday, May 23, 2008

McCain Ready For The “Old Soldiers Home”

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Thanks to Crooks & Liars for this 2000 McCain interview with Jim Lehrer

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Memorial Day Weekend Preview: 7 new superdelegates

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As we head into the first big weekend of the summer, the contest for the Democratic nomination continues in all corners of the country. Obama will be in Florida, Puerto Rico, Connecticut and New Mexico. Clinton will be in South Dakota and Puerto Rico. And we have new superdelegates being named in 4 states, Alaska, Georgia, Wyoming and Hawaii:

• Saturday, May 24, Alaska names its add-on, Georgia names two add-ons and Wyoming names one add-on. Obama won all three states.
• Sunday. May 25, Hawaii Democrats hold their State Convention, followed by a meeting of the State Central Committee, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Waikiki, and name their add-on, and also select a new state party chair and vice-chair, both of whom immediately become superdelegates. Obama won the Hawaii Caucuses. Candidates for the Chair position are Annelle Amaral and Brian Schatz. Schatz is a former member of Obama’s campaign in Hawaii, and has been endorsed by Obama. Amaral is a Clinton supporter but has committed to voting for Obama at the convention. In addition, Obama has endorsed James Burns, former chief judge of the state Intermediate Court of Appeals, for the add-on position. Update: Obama supporters are also backing Maui teacher Kari Luna for vice chair.

We’ll have the add-on information here at DCW as soon as it’s available. Continue Reading...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Superdelegate endorsements for Thursday May 22nd

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Hillary Clinton gets the first endorsement today. She leads 1-0.

Guam Democratic Party Chair Pilar Lujan has endorsed Clinton Continue Reading...

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Superdelegate endorsements for Wednesday 5/21

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Obama leads today’s superdelegate endorsements with 2 to Clinton’s 1.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Be a superdelegate sleuth

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MSNBC has released an interesting video of their superdelegate war room. You will especially notice their high-tech way of tracking superdelegate endorsements (which might explain things like this).

So we are asking the DCW community to take a look at the video. It gives intriguing brief glimpses of who MSNBC is counting. Pause it, zoom in on it, apply those video enhancement tools we see on all the TV shows, and let us know who MSNBC has on their list that we don’t! Continue Reading...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Obama clinches non-MI/FL pledged delegate majority (and most MI/FL scenarios also)

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Sen. Barack Obama tonight clinched a majority of the pledged delegates as currently defined, not counting Michigan and Florida. Under the current rules there are 3,253 pledged delegates, a majority is 1,627, and according to the DCW numbers, based on The Green Papers and estimates of tonight delegate allocations, Obama will have more than 1,627 delegates when the night is over.

Is this important? Officially, no, but symbolically, it could be in the minds of the only people that matter at this point, the remaining uncommitted superdelegates. A few of them, in our Pelosi Club, have explicitly said they would vote for the pledged delegate leader, and many others have hinted at it.. If they define the pledged delegate count as not including Michigan and Florida, we may see a large number of superdelegates endorse Obama in the next few days. Continue Reading...