By Antonio D. French
Filed Saturday, February 09, 2008 at 10:50 PM
According to David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, by sweeping today's caucuses and primaries, Senator Obama more than doubled his pledged delegate lead over Senator Hillary Clinton.
Before today, Obama led Clinton by 27 pledged delegates (pledged delegates are those won through caucus and primary election wins, as opposed to superdelegates which are basically endorsements by officials. These superdelegates are not necessarily fixed and can change their alliances).
"In the four contests today, we estimate we won 103 delegates to Clinton’s 58 delegates for a net gain of 45 delegates," wrote Plouffe on the Obama website.
"The pledged delegate total through February 9 now stands at 1,012 for Obama and 940 for Clinton."
Before today, Obama led Clinton by 27 pledged delegates (pledged delegates are those won through caucus and primary election wins, as opposed to superdelegates which are basically endorsements by officials. These superdelegates are not necessarily fixed and can change their alliances)."In the four contests today, we estimate we won 103 delegates to Clinton’s 58 delegates for a net gain of 45 delegates," wrote Plouffe on the Obama website.
"The pledged delegate total through February 9 now stands at 1,012 for Obama and 940 for Clinton."
Labels: Clinton, Obama, Presidential_Primaries
10 Comments:
This moment is making me so proud! People were counting out Obama this time last year and look at him now! He is giving Hillary a run for her money (literally and figuratively speaking) and he just may go all the way! I would so love to see a Obama/Clinton ticket and I am wondering if Dean is behind the scenes trying to pull this altogether because May is a long way away. Or will Hillary have to just run out of money first?
2/10/2008 1:16 AM
Hillary's campaign is claiming their 500,000 vote lead in the popular vote entitles them to a lion's share of the super delegates. They get this by counting caucus voters as equal to states like Missouri and New York where it was regular voters----essentially saying the caucus states count only 1 tenth what non caucus states count. Throw in her "victories" in Michigan and Florida, and Voila---her big "lead".
A person would guess even this convoluted logic would be too ridiculous for them to assert---guess again.
2/10/2008 1:41 AM
could we please have the names of the 16 superdelegates from Missouri?
2/10/2008 1:44 AM
Kjoe: Contact the Missouri Democratic Party and do your own research instead of demanding that PubDef do it for you.
2/10/2008 8:13 AM
While the state's primary delegates may be evenly split, there is still a fight over Missouri's 16 superdelegates - those elected officials and other prominent Democratic party members who are free to back whomever they want.
So far, four superdelegates have pledged support for Obama and another four are backing Clinton.
Obama's supporters include Sen. Claire McCaskill, Rep. William Lacy Clay, Rep. Russ Carnahan and Kansas City attorney Mark Bryant.
Those endorsing Clinton include Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, former Rep. Dick Gephardt and longtime party members Sandra Querry, of Independence, and Doug Brooks, of Joplin.
Uncommitted superdelegates include Rep. Ike Skelton, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, state Democratic Party chairman John Temporiti, party vice chairwoman Yolanda Wheat, state Rep. Maria Chappelle-Nadal and party member Leila Medley.
Two additional superdelegates will be chosen at the party's April 5 quarterly meeting.
http://www.kmbc.com/news/15237722/detail.html
2/10/2008 4:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Kjoe: Contact the Missouri Democratic Party and do your own research instead of demanding that PubDef do it for you.
sorry.
Young Dem said...
thanks.....so Two additional superdelegates will be chosen at the party's April 5 quarterly meeting.
Who will be the privileged few who do this?
2/10/2008 9:08 PM
Dannigyrl,
I would have loved an Obama/Clinton ticket too, but I would have preferred 8 years of Clinton P and Obama VP then 8 years of Obama as pres. We would have gotten a lot more mileage out of his attributes if he had done that--16 years instead of 8. Because there is no way, after this primary season, these two would ever share a ticket. This really needs to be overhauled and done much more quickly so this doesn't get so drawn out and ugly.
2/10/2008 9:18 PM
It's starting to look like I'll be able to vote for someone I really want to in the primary election instead of choosing between the lesser of two evils.
2/11/2008 7:01 AM
In the latest overall totals in The Associated Press count, Clinton had 1,136 delegates to 1,108 for Obama.
A total of 2,025 delegates is required to win the nomination.
2/11/2008 1:40 PM
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