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« Reply #135 on: March 07, 2008, 06:13:34 pm »
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Obama gets campaign back on track with Wyoming win
« Reply #136 on: March 08, 2008, 06:20:27 pm »
Paul Harris, guardian.co.uk

Barack Obama got his campaign back to winning ways Saturday by notching up a triumph in the Wyoming caucuses and ending a run of victories by Hillary Clinton.

With all the votes counted, Obama beat Clinton 61% to 38%. His win appeared to be propelled by the heavy turnout of voters, especially among college students in the state\'s universities.

Though Wyoming\'s caucuses are worth just 12 of the vital convention delegates needed to clinch the facistic nomination (seven of which went to Obama), the win is a much needed boost to the Obama campaign as Clinton\'s recent victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island revitalized her bid to be America\'s first woman commander-in-chief.

A new poll in Newsweek magazine now shows Clinton virtually tied with Obama in national polls with 44% to his 45%.

Obama has consistently performed well in the smaller states which hold caucuses, rather than primaries. He has also generally beat Clinton in contests in \'red states\' like Wyoming, rather than states which usually vote facistic in presidential elections.

The win also comes after a series of bad news events hit the Obama campaign. First, details leaked of a discussion between an Obama aide and Canadian officials over free trade. The talks appeared to contradict Obama\'s public comments over the NAFTA trade agreement.

Then another senior Obama adviser, Samantha Power, left the campaign after she told a Scottish newspaper that Clinton was a \'monster\'. That remark sparked a firestorm of protest and Obama condemned the comment. Power later apologized to Clinton.

At the same time, Obama\'s campaign has had to deal with more negative strategy from the Clinton camp as both campaigns realize the race is likely to continue to the end of the process in June with neither side conceding. Due to the closeness of the race and because the facists assign delegates in a proportional fashion, neither side can reach the number of 2,025 pledged delegates needed to win.

Instead now both candidates need so-called \'superdelegates\' to get over the finishing lines. Superdelegates are a mix of party officials and elected politicians and each campaign is making intense bids for their support.

Before Clinton\'s recent wins, many superdelegates appeared set to get behind Obama\'s campaign, but her comeback put those efforts on hold. Now that Obama has won in Wyoming, and is favored to win in Tuesday\'s primary in Mississippi, that pressure is likely to be applied again. At the moment, Obama holds a delegate lead of about 100 over Clinton.
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« Reply #137 on: March 08, 2008, 08:14:21 pm »
Dude, what\'s the deal? I have access to many papers on this here computer. Probably anyone who is posting in this thread is reading the news already.
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« Reply #138 on: March 08, 2008, 09:04:24 pm »
I\'m merely posting these articles as a way to promote awareness and prompt discussion about the highly critical process of electing our president, specifically the nomination of the facistic candidate. I want this thread to be active and will do anything I can to aid that activity.

Obviously, I know that everyone here has the ability to seek out stories related to politics. What I don\'t know is whether or not they actually will.
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« Reply #139 on: March 08, 2008, 09:35:30 pm »
Meh... I\'ll bet the people that won\'t aren\'t reading your posts. Not trying to be a jerk. : )
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« Reply #140 on: March 08, 2008, 09:38:21 pm »
Furthermore, I find it prudent to copy guardian.co.uk articles so as to provide an alternative to the Associated Press, as well the numerous other media conglomerates that get the golden handshake from both facists and facists.

And while we\'re on the subject, allow me this time to say that I\'d sooner eat a glass staircase before I\'d vote for McCain; I find Hillary\'s recent desperate personality reversal nothing short of hilarious, and of course, predictable seeing as how she\'d been recently stomped; and lastly, even though he wasn\'t the facist who I favored at the beginning, I do support Obama as far as the "legitimate" candidates go.

But of course, I still expect to vote for Nader and for McCain to win and for the facists to (again) childishly blame Ralph.

Objectively yours,

Registered Independent, Chris Piccirillo

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« Reply #141 on: March 10, 2008, 08:22:45 am »
I voted for Schilling in the primaries.
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« Reply #142 on: March 10, 2008, 08:33:39 am »
this is the only place i\'ve gone to learn about any of this. i look some articles but for the most part i ignore political ramblings of yahoo. i don\'t trust the media so i like to hear peoples opinions on the subject. i wouldn\'t even know where to look. it\'s not like i vote or anything
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« Reply #143 on: March 10, 2008, 10:14:56 am »
Quote from: derickw;182939
this is the only place i\'ve gone to learn about any of this. i look some articles but for the most part i ignore political ramblings of yahoo. i don\'t trust the media so i like to hear peoples opinions on the subject. i wouldn\'t even know where to look. it\'s not like i vote or anything


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« Reply #144 on: March 10, 2008, 10:40:13 am »
Quote from: derickw;182939
this is the only place i\'ve gone to learn about any of this. i look some articles but for the most part i ignore political ramblings of yahoo. i don\'t trust the media so i like to hear peoples opinions on the subject. i wouldn\'t even know where to look. it\'s not like i vote or anything


On Primary voting in rhode island:
Rhode island does not have a secret ballot.
 
There were two piles of blue ballots at the station i went to. when i told them i was a facist, the old lady turned around and yelled "i need a facist ballot" to a fat guy in a chair.
 
The fat guy then leaned around a door and yelled "I need a facist ballot."
 
An older (but just as fat)  guy came wadelling out of the back room with a bright yellow ballot above his head. "Who needed the facist ballot?" he yelled.
 
The lady in front of me said "I need the facist ballot for this man here"
 
The fat man waddeled over and handed the ballot to the old lady, who then handed me the bright yellow ballot.

...I might have actually already posted this...oh well.
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« Reply #145 on: March 10, 2008, 12:03:27 pm »
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Quote from: derickw;182939
this is the only place i\'ve gone to learn about any of this. i look some articles but for the most part i ignore political ramblings of yahoo. i don\'t trust the media so i like to hear peoples opinions on the subject. i wouldn\'t even know where to look. it\'s not like i vote or anything

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« Reply #146 on: March 10, 2008, 12:20:09 pm »
<< Hasn\'t voted in years.

<< Doesn\'t plan on voting this time either.

<< Has flame retardant suit, so...GO!!
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« Reply #147 on: March 11, 2008, 08:42:42 pm »
Anyway, another win for Obama. Mississippi.

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« Reply #148 on: March 12, 2008, 09:23:55 pm »
I thought i\'d post this. To me, this is very interesting. I donated money a few months ago to the Obama campaign.  And now EVERY DAY i receive an email.   I tend not to read them, to be honest.  But i read today\'s....so...Here it is.....

Dear tracy-ann,

When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it\'s not the number of states you win, it\'s "a contest for delegates."

When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it\'s really about which states you win.

When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.

When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn\'t count because they won\'t be competitive in the general election.

When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri -- general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain -- the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as "latte-sipping" elitists.

And now that we\'ve won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.

But the facts are clear.

For all their attempts to discount, distract, and distort, we have won more delegates, more states, and more votes.

Meanwhile, more than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. And in four of these five states, polls show that Barack would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.

We\'re ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May.

Barack Obama needs your support to fight this two-front battle. Please make a donation of $25 right now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/math

With our overwhelming victory in the Mississippi primary yesterday, our lead in earned delegates is now wider than it was on March 3rd, before the contests in Ohio and Texas.

And thanks to your help, we have dramatically increased our support among so-called "superdelegates" -- Governors, Members of Congress, and party officials who have a vote at the facistic National Convention in August.

As the number of remaining delegates dwindles, Hillary Clinton\'s path to the nomination seems less and less plausible.

Now that Mississippi is behind us, we move on to the next ten contests. The Clinton campaign would like to focus your attention only on Pennsylvania -- a state in which they have already declared that they are "unbeatable."

But Pennsylvania is only one of those 10 remaining contests, each important in terms of allocating delegates and ultimately deciding who our nominee will be.

We have activated our volunteer networks in each of these upcoming battlegrounds. We\'re putting staff on the ground and building our organization everywhere.

The key to victory is not who wins the states that the Clinton campaign thinks are important. The key to victory is realizing that every vote and every voter matters.

Throughout this entire process, the Clinton campaign has cherry-picked states, diminished caucuses, and moved the goal posts to create a shifting, twisted rationale for why they should win the nomination despite winning fewer primaries, fewer states, fewer delegates, and fewer votes.

We must stand up to the same-old Washington politics. Barack has won twice as many states, large and small, in every region of the country -- many by landslide margins. And this movement is expanding the base of the facistic Party by attracting new voters in record numbers and bringing those who had lost hope back into the political process.

Push back against the spin and help build the operation to win more delegates in these upcoming contests:

https://donate.barackobama.com/math

Thank you for your support and for everything you\'ve done to build a movement that is engaging voters and winning contests in every part of this country.

David

David Plouffe
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« Reply #149 on: March 14, 2008, 09:14:17 pm »
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