By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 19, 2008 in Barack Obama | 4 Comments
According to the latest Gallup polling, Obama now leads Clinton 55% to 39% among Democrats nationally. This is the biggest lead he’s ever had in the Gallup national Democratic poll. Oregon & Kentucky hold primaries tomorrow (although Oregon votes by mail so most have already voted there.) Obama is expected to win Oregon (probably by [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 18, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
An incredible record breaking crowd of 75,000 people attended the Barack Obama rally in Portland, Oregon today according to this Washington Post story. The Oregon Democratic primary is this Tuesday and Obama is strongly favored to win it. Obama should easily pass the amount of pledged delegates needed to guarantee that he is the pledged [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 17, 2008 in Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
Hillary Clinton has been making a lot of ridiculous claims lately. Among the claims she’s made is that she is the popular vote leader. But that’s only true if count Florida & Michigan where neither Clinton or Obama campaigned. Most ridiculously Obama was not even on the ballot in Michigan, so Clinton is counting all [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, John Edwards | 2 Comments
According to CNN, John Edwards is going to endorse Barack Obama today in Grand Rapids, Michigan where Obama is campaigning. Michigan, of course, broke DNC rules by holding it’s primary earlier than it was supposed to. Clinton & Obama agreed not to campaign there or to have the votes in the state count, although Clinton [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 13, 2008 in Hillary Clinton | 10 Comments
CNN has now called West Virginia for Hillary Clinton. As everyone assumed, it will be a large margin of victory although perhaps not quite as large as Clinton supporters had hoped for according to exit polls (the margin is likely to be about 35% – some Clinton supporters were hoping for 60%.) Clinton is likely [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 12, 2008 in Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
The Clinton campaign continues to find new lows to stoop to in their desperate campaign for the Democratic nomination. The latest? Creating a fake newspaper headline for their ad when they couldn’t find a real newspaper headline they liked. Check out this story. It may be time for the superdelegates to step in and end [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
According to the blog at ABC News, Obama now leads Clinton in superdelegates 267 to 265. Superdelegates have been the only category that Clinton has lead in throughout most of this campaign, and now that lead is gone as well. Obama leads in contests won, the popular vote, elected delegates, and superdelegates. He also leads [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
It’s important to note that Hillary Clinton is expected to win West Virginia by a margin of 30% or more next Tuesday otherwise her campaign may try to spin it as some sort of “come back.” It will be nothing of the sort. The reality is that West Virginia only has 28 pledged delegates and [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, John Edwards | 0 Comments
Listen to John Edwards on who he’ll endorse for president: “I just voted for him on Tuesday.”
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 8, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
Read the story at RawStory.com The latest overall delegate count is Obama 1850 & Clinton 1696. 2025 are needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Obama will hit that target, at the latest, on May 20th when the Oregon primary is held. There is a possibility he could clinch the nomination previous to that if enough [...]