Obama win appears big in Texas delegate battle »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsBarrack (sic) Obama appeared to have scored a clear victory over Hillary Clinton on Saturday in the second step of Texas' multi-tiered process for selecting its delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
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ETproductions1 year, 3 months ago
Here is another little regarded fact. About that huge Texas win that "proves" Hillary is the stronger general election candidate? She won by just over 100,000 votes, but of those, 119,000 were Republican crossovers voting for Hillary because Rush told them to. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008...
Hillary has NO chance of winning Texas in November. Same goes for Ohio. Rush handed her that one too. Is anybody stupid enough to believe he will do the same for her in November? He's only doing that now because he is convinced she is easy to beat in the general election.
Hillary would energize the Republican base like nothing John McCain could ever dream up. I don't think that's fair, but I do know it is a fact. That's one reason for the Super Delegates to weigh in now. Don't let Rush keep electioneering the Democratic Primaries.
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scott42611 year, 3 months ago
It's a long way 'til November.
As of now, the only way Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic nomination is if the superdelegates push her over the top. That is not going to happen (But I know this is a wet dream for many righties, since the resulting chasm in the Democratic Party would hand the Republicans a victory...all with only lukewarm support for their candidate, John McCain. How brilliant! Huh?).
No, the more likely outcome will be that Barack Obama will emerge as the Democratic nominee. His acceptance speech will breath new energy into the Democratic Party and will make his 2004 keynote address seem like just a warm up. In the end, the Democrats will be unified.
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ETproductions1 year, 3 months ago
Yep. To get to 2024 now (the magic number), Hillary would have to win all the remaining 10 primaries and then some. So far, she is winning about 1/3rd and Obama has taken 2/3rds.
Then Hillary would need for over 2/3rds of the uncommitted super delegates to back her. Barack would hit 2024 with just 1/3rd.
Unless Obama self destructs, he has won. If he should self destruct, Hillary would win even if she had ceased campaigning and wrecking the party's hopes. Kind of puts her lust for power in a proper perspective.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 3 months ago
"How can someone win the popular vote and not WIN the delegates?"
Very, very simple. Rush limpjaw's ditto head minions cross voted for Hillary and skewed the popular vote results. They are openly bragging about it in my county. The ditto heads couldn't show up at a dem caucus in most places, so the real winner was chosen by dems.
"This sounds familiar, like the Electoral College which the Democrats hate, after the last two elections."
The electoral college was never considered the problem by the dems that I know. It was the Supreme Court in the first one, then Diebold voting machines and GOP chicanery in the second.
Judging by the lengths that the GOP will go to, to subvert democracy by winning at any cost, they need to cling to the electoral college like a lifeboat, or they will drown in a torrent of dem popular votes.
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jovial1 year, 3 months ago
That's a question for your fearless leader "Bush". You're asking the wrong crowd.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 3 months ago
Fortunately for the rest of the human race, there are not enough of your silly ilk to make much of a difference in this election.
As soon as the MSM starts to focus in on McCain, we'll be hearing about failed S&Ls, special treatment for lobbyists (they are running his campaign!!), adultery, gold digging, senility and the most UNELECTABLE thing of all, 8 years of a failed and incompetent foreign policy and a disastrous war that he is advocating we continue.
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NoWayMan1 year, 3 months ago
you're getting pretty shrill there frenchie.
if you're talking about unelectable, you must be talking about John McCain, the guy who said he's fine being in Iraq for 100 years, then can't tell the difference between a shiite and a sunni - and both of those gaffs are in handy sound bite form that will be played over and over and over and over again for the next seven months.
time to face the music, pay the piper, get yer head outta yer butt. everything you've said has been wrong up to this point. no wonder you're a bushbot.
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annoDomini1 year, 3 months ago
I considered voting for this story, but it is actually a non-story. We've known for a while (since the TX caucuses) that Sen. Obama "probably" won more delegates in TX than Sen. Clinton. The real story will be posted when TX makes the results official.
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Poulenc1 year, 3 months ago
Saint, above: "...his idiotic 'Race Speech"...his 6 or 7 Muslim half-brothers..."
Precisely what made his "race speech," as you put it, idiotic? That he refused to endorse the racial divisiveness of black against black? That he refused to talk in terms of absolute allegiance, so beloved of the authoritarian right (if I'm not being redundant)? That he refused to talk categorically at all?
Now, as for those brothers--in your world, undoubtedly the idea that one might have relatives who don't practice one's own "religion of peace," or any religion at all, constitutes a kind of moral treason.
But it doesn't among people willing to look at a person clearly to see what he or she actually is.
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raats66621 year, 3 months ago
Although I too think that the nominating process should continue until all votes are counted I also believe that once they are it should be done and not decided by the super delegates.
As for the "Texas three part delegate system" frankly it's no different then the DNC nominating system. At some point someone in Texas got the nod that the big wigs in the party didn't like. So they set up a system that makes them (the party big wigs) able to mess with the out come. I just don't think they were counting on so much attendance that this election has brought out.
The question was asked "How can someone win the popular vote and not win the delegates?" The answer is that Texas (unlike ANY OTHER STATE) really has three DIFFERENT votes. Each of which has delegates available. In this case Senator Obama has won 2 of the 3 challenges.
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slate1 year, 3 months ago
First he didn't hear any of the remarks in church
Untrue, I saw him personally state otherwise on TV that he did hear those things in church,,,
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Poulenc1 year, 3 months ago
Say, Ani, been meaning to ask you--ever buy that gun you said you were going to get for your daughter so she could protect HER daughter?
This is off-topic, to be sure, but I like to keep up with the right-thinking. (OK--some puns just happen....)
The family that's armed together--well, you know the rest....
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jovial1 year, 3 months ago
All you dingleberries unite! Sink this story and add to the list at the bottom of the page.
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scott42611 year, 3 months ago
First of all, I NEVER said Hillary Clinton would sail to an easy victory. I never really liked her anyway. And as you may recall, my support went to John Edwards until he dropped out of the race. Then I went with Barack Obama
But to get back to the original point...you seem SO SURE that the Democrats are going to be in such disarray after their convention that John McCain is sure to be elected.
That is not the way I read it. Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination and he WILL win the election. You can take that to the bank!
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Tcaros1 year, 3 months ago
Obama took 99 delegates. Don't believe the sarcasm story. If we want sick sarcasm we'll read some of Bush's signing statements.
Good win for Obama!
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