Thursday, May 08, 2008

Thursday 5/8 Summary

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Yet another busy day for the Democratic Primaries. Definitely not Hillary Clinton’s best day of the year. Continue Reading...

Thursday, May 08, 2008

More proof that blogs are valid news sources

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We’ve told you about several errors that big media sources have made this primary season. This time The News Tribune of Tacoma points out a problem with the New York Time’s superdelegate list.

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Mr. Super…. Revealed!

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One of the greatest mysteries of this primary season isn’t who will win the nomination but rather who is Mr. Super? Today we finally found out!

MrSuper.org is a website which was created in March to debunk myths, offer insight and answer questions about the 2008 Democratic nomination process for President. The author, who has been posting under the pseudonym “Mr. Super” will announce his identity today. Continue Reading...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Record number of Native American delegates to Dem Convention this year

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An interesting article over at the Native American Times on the growing number and influence of Native American delegates to the Democratic Convention. According to the article, this year it is anticipated that 150 delegates will be Native Americans, an increase from just 7 in 2000.

Superdelegate Margaret Campbell from Montana is one of these tribal members. She initially supported Barack Obama until she had to rescind due to her role as the Vice Chairman of the Montana Democratic Executive Committee (she is required to stay neutral until after the Montana primary on June 3rd). Continue Reading...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Wednesday summary

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The day after the big primaries always bring out lots of news: Continue Reading...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Michigan Dems propose 69-59 split

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The Michigan Democratic party has gotten behind last weeks proposal from U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and DNC member Debbie Dingell:

The state party’s executive committee voted today to ask the national party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to approve the 69-59 delegate split when it meets May 31. The plan would shrink Clinton’s delegate edge in Michigan from 18 to 10 and allow the state’s 157 delegates and superdelegates to be seated at the convention.
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The state’s Democratic leaders also pushed back the date of the party’s State Central Committee meeting from May 17 to June 14 to give the rules committee time to act. The party is to pick 45 pledged delegates and two superdelegates at that meeting. It chose 83 pledged delegates last month at district conventions. Continue Reading...