Race for the White House – Update #420
Just in case you live in a cave, here are the latest numbers:
- Indiana: Clinton – 51%
Obama – 49% - North Carolina: Obama – 56%
Clinton – 42%
Senator Clinton was supposed to take Indiana with a double-digit win. That obviously didn’t happen. Not only does Senator Obama lead in pledged delegate counts, he leads in the popular vote and Super-delegates are also beginning an exodus from the Clinton camp. The calls for her to quit have resumed:
Senator Clinton, however, remains adamant that she will stay in the race until a nominee is chosen. We are also likely to see to see the Clinton campaign wage a serious battle over seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The Democratic National Committee will hold a meeting May 31st of its Rules and Bylaws Committee to discuss how to deal with this issue. Michigan’s executive commitee has settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59. Florida has yet to come to some arrangement. The question of whether these delegates should be seated at all still remains to be answered.
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Race to the White House – Update
Well, the officially unofficial resuts from the Pennsylvania primary are finally in:
- Clinton: 85 delegates
- Obama: 73 delegates
Results are also in for the tiny island in the Pacific Ocean; Guam. Obama won by a margin of 7 votes. Go Guam!
- Obama: 2 delegates
- Clinton: 2 delegates
The latest count by the Associated Press showed Obama with 1742.5 delegates to Clinton’s 1,607.5. The next primary will be held Tuesday with Indiana and North Carolina voting. No major decision is likely to come from these two states and this race will continue on until June 3rd. We might as well just push on to the end at this point and let all of the states (and Peurto Rico) get a chance. It’s an historic election, after all.
In other election news, Ron Paul stated in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that he preferred Senator Obama to John McCain. Quickly adding that this was not an endorsement. Watch the interview below:
Ron Paul – Why He Should Be President
It’s such a shame that the majority of America’s citizens are dumb, shit-kickin’ rednecks. Or that the nation’s women are blinded by gender. Or that so many people are too lazy to unplug from Fox, CNN, or ABC. They would rather be spoon-fed lies, distortions, and spin instead of searching for the truth. Why do the two strongest candidates for president – Ron Paul & Barack Obama – have such a huge following with the online community? Because they are elitists and so are we.
Urban Dictionary definition: The plural of elitist. In short, a person, or group of persons, who believes something about them makes them superior to others, and they feel the need to flaunt their superiority.
Why are we so superior? We aren’t shit-kickin’ rednecks and we don’t let Bill O’Reilly or Ann Coulter tell us how to think. A woman will sit in the Oval Office as President of the United States. But she won’t get our vote just because she is a woman. Congressman Paul and Senator Obama don’t talk down to us in a patronizing manner. They speak to us one on one; no bullshit, no lies and no spin. They tell it like it is. This country has fallen into ruin and it’s going to take some hard work to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Hillary Clinton should step down so that we can put an intellectual in the White House and start some nation re-building.
Obama/Paul ’08
Ron Paul – He Who Should Be President
There’s a well written article on Politico by jonothan Martin; Ron Paul is down but not out.
Ron Paul and his supporters have not given up. They have not given up with spreading the message of Dr. Paul; less government is more. Although his run for the presidency is finished, supporters still turn out to hear him speak. And still turn out to vote. Dr. Paul won 16% of the vote in Pennsylvania. I have stated before that Ron Paul would be my first pick for President. The big question on everyone’s mind now is who are all of these people going to vote for in the general election? They will probably follow Ron Paul’s lead. I personally wish that he would keep his name on the ticket. Unfortunately, he has stated unequivocally that he would not run under a third party. Minds can be changed.
I am afraid that the democrats are once again shooting themselves in the foot. I have about had it. Actually, I’m sick to shit of it. Hillary Clinton has ruined it for me. The prospect of having to listen to that voice for four years or possibly eight makes me terrified. I am in an absolute quandry over what I will do come November if the battle is between McCain and Clinton. I can’t and won’t vote for either one of them. Perhaps, I too, will have to wait and see where the Ron Paul supporters go.
Who Really Won Pennsylvania?
Due to Pennsylvania’s screwed up system of allocating pledged delegates, the answer to that question is still up in the air. The voting is done and the popular vote goes to Senator Clinton. But what about the delegates? Here’s an explanation from the New York Times:
Because of the rules that govern the allocation of Democratic delegates, final results for each congressional district in the state are needed to allocate that district’s delegates. There are seven congressional districts in Pennsylvania with precinct reports outstanding. The Associated Press tells us that those results may not be available for a day or two.
Thus, The Times has only allocated 127 of the state’s 158 delegates. Currently, Hillary Clinton has 64 delegates and Barack Obama has 63. Stay tuned to our delegate page for updates.
Whoa, she’s really creamin’ him!
There is a link in that article to the NYT’s delegate page. It has some pretty interesting information. Not only does it show you the current split of delegates for the states that have already held their primaries or caucuses or primary/caucuses. There is another column of un-allocated delegates. If you click on the ‘Details’ a little window will pop up to let you know when those states will have their conventions. That is when they will decide their delegates. If they haven’t been decided yet, how do we know who won what? Then you have the state of Nevada who had to conduct a do-over in Clark County because to many people showed up. Nevada held their caucus (or primary – I can’t keep up any more) on January 19th – January 19th! And we still don’t know who won what!?!
People we are all in Hell. Why is this so freaking difficult? How about if we voted by placing a penny in piggy-banks with the candidates names on them, dipped our fingers in ink to show that we voted, then dump the pennies into a coin counter and voilia! A winner is chosen.
Obama ’08
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