Obama Superdelegates

Source: news.google.com --- 56 days ago
Globe and Mail Obama Looking to Diminish Superdelegates Washington Post - 47 minutes ago By Dan Balz Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of Superdelegates, whose role became a major point of ... Paterson to Address Convention New York Times Women for Obama group courts Hillary Clinton faithful Los Angeles Times New York Daily News  - Chicago Defender  - KCPW  - Santa Fe Reporter all 2,284 news articles ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 43 days ago
So what was the final, official vote, anyway, in that race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? And how about the breakdown in the mammoth California delegation? As of earlier today, almost a week after the much-publicized roll call vote that officially anointed Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, party officials still had not released the convention-wide numbers. (It's an academic exercise, we know, but we're still curious about it). The state-by-state roll call was memorably cut off by Clinton herself, when she moved to make Obama the nominee by acclamation. At the time, 32 delegations had weighed in and Obama was leading 1,549 to 341. California had passed when its turn came up early in the roll call because, state party advisor Bob Mulholland later related, votes within the delegation were still being counted. Today, Mulholland said the count finally had been completed and the final numbers were: Obama, 273; Clinton, 166 (remember, Clinton won the Feb. 5 California primary). Two Superdelegates missed the convention and did not vote: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and state Sen. Carole Migden. As for the total vote, well, Democratic officials were still working on it as of late this afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Democratic National Convention Committee, Natalie Wyeth, said paperwork had been shipped back from the convention site in Denver, but that the Labor Day holiday delayed the tally. Wyeth said she expected t ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 55 days ago
So today's Washington Post reports that Sen. Barack Obama will try to change party rules to reduce the power of Superdelegates and reform the presidential nominating calendar: [A new commission would be established] with a goal of reducing the power of Superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during the long battle for the Democratic nomination between Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The commission also will be urged to redraw the nominating calendar for 2012 to avoid starting the primaries and caucuses so early, and also to look specifically at ensuring more uniform rules and standards for those caucuses. Vesting unchecked power to unelected insiders. Overriding the clear will of the majority. Undermining political activity by making citizens feel like their participation is futile. Those are dark aspects of the Democratic Party's primary rules. When you think about it, they're also longstanding problems in American democracy, from the Constitution's unelected Senate to an electoral college which took the candidate with fewer votes in 2000 and made him president. Change starts at home, as they say, so it's logical for Obama to begin democratizing America by democratizing his own Democratic party. But, but, but -- a commission? We need a blue ribbon commission to nix a few hundred Superdelegates? Again, from the Post: Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign will ask delegates at the national c ...

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 54 days ago
After the nonsense this primary season, I can understand why Democrats across the board would want to diminish the importance of these folks. From Wash Post: Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission... ...

Source: tailrank.com --- 56 days ago
Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of Superdelegates. ...

Source: primebuzz.kcstar.com --- 56 days ago
The Washington Post's Dan Balz reports that Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of Superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during the long battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton . The commission also will be urged to redraw the calendar for 2012 to avoid starting the primaries and caucuses so early, and also to look specifically at assuring more uniform rules and standards for those caucuses. read more ...

Source: donklephant.com --- 55 days ago
After the nonsense this primary season, I can understand why Democrats across the board would want to diminish the importance of these folks. From Wash Post: Barack Obama’s campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the [...] ...

Source: xml.pixsy.com --- 41 days ago
   LAURIE WEAHKEE FACED SOME POLITICAL DILEMMAS ON HER WAY TO SUPERDELEGATE STATUS. SOT LAURIE WEAHKEE, NEW MEXICO SUPERDELEGATE: At the time the Clinton folks were really embattled for the overall nomination and so a lot of the folks were speculating that I was an Obama supporter and at that point I really hadn't made up my mind. WEAHKEE IS COCHITI PUEBLO, ZUNI AND HALF NAVAJO. SHE'S NEW MEXICO'S TWELFTH ADD-ON SUPERDELEGATE AND SHE'S ONE OF JUST FOUR NATIVE AMERICAN Superdelegates AT THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. SOT LAURIE WEAHKEE: I think the overall sentiment is that we need to become more consistent voters and really utilize voting as one tool in the toolbox. NATIVE AMERICANS ARE MAKING THEIR VOTES COUNT AT THIS CONVENTION. THE NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICAN DELEGATES HERE AT THE D-N-C IS UP BY 34 SINCE THE LAST CONVENTION FOUR YEARS AGO. AMERICAN INDIANS STILL MAKE UP LESS THAN 3 PERCENT OF THE DELEGATE POPULATION BUT TRIBAL MEMBERS SAY INCREASED INVOLVEMENT IN LOCAL POLITICS IS SPARKING INTEREST IN THE BIGGER PICTURE. SOT CINDA HUGES, DNC RULES COMMITTEE MEMBER: I think one of the big reasons that American Indians are coming to the polls in record numbers is due to the fact that Indians themselves are becoming candidates not only in local elections but in state legislatures. AND ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIVE AMERICANS ARE PART OF A VOTING BLOCK THAT COULD PROVE POWERFUL IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. SOT CINDA HUGES: I thin ...

Source: www.bakersfield.com --- 19 days ago
Barack Obama has officially garnered the Democratic nomination for president, but when Hillary Clinton was still making her case that Superdelegates should support her, the screams from Obama's camp maintained that this would "overturn the will of the people." Really? ...

Source: jackrich.wordpress.com --- 22 days ago
Kathleen Parker at NRO wrote “Obama boots Biden and taps Clinton; McCain dumps Palin and picks Romney. It’s a concept.” It’s a terrible concept. Not least because, for all of your apparent infatuation with the Idea of Obama, it is he who should be booted. I was a little surprised that the Superdelegates, [...] ...

Source: noandcheap.clickblog.com.br --- 18 days ago
Obama Polishes Foreign Policy Credentials in Mideast Update. Div google border px solid A. She s not she s not going to convince the Superdelegates. In a conference call with those who write about defense matters, he told blogger Andrew Lubin ph, quote, we don t have any solitary confinement down here [...] ...

Source: www.murtha.org --- 42 days ago
This piece was featured on WTAE-TV on August 25, 2008. The Democratic National Convention is under way in Denver, and western Pennsylvania is represented well. Sen. Bob Casey -- an early backer of the party's presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama -- will give a speech Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center. During Monday's Pennsylvania delegate meeting, Casey urged the commonwealth's Democrats to work hard for the Obama-Joe Biden ticket. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato -- former supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- were among those who joined in the Pennsylvania delegate meeting. Pennsylvania State Auditor General Jack Wagner, who backed Obama in the primary, is also at the DNC. Reps. John Murtha and Jason Altmire are among the Superdelegates at the convention. Murtha was an early Clinton backer, while Altmire stayed neutral until the race between Clinton and Obama was decided. ...

Source: livegameit.faistonblog.com --- 24 days ago
Because the iPhone is driven by a powerful operating system, it. How was it possible for the British haylie. Better get your forever stamps today, price goes up on Monday. Tablets contain dipyrone sodium, a member the on ximena acid group of. Obama now leads Clinton by at least Superdelegates. Effects, but [...] ...

Source: www.wikirage.com --- 43 days ago
The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held from August 25 to August 27 at Pepsi Center and on August 28 at INVESCO Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado. At its convention, the Democratic Party will nominate its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. By virtue of his lead among elected delegates and Superdelegates, it is presumed that Illinois Senator Barack Obama will receive the nomination for President and Delaware Senator Joe Biden will receive the nomination for Vice President. On July 7, Obama's campaign manager announced that Obama will accept the party's nomination in front of a crowd of more than 75,000 in a free, open event to be held at INVESCO Field.[1] ...

Source: hillarynowobamalater.org --- 41 days ago
You might note that I have been silent on this blog for quite some time.   It is NOT because I haven't got anything to say.   It is because there is too much to say.  Way.  Too.  Much.  To.  Say. I am completely overwhelmed by how much there is to say about what has happened to the Democratic Party and how it has been turned into a dictatorship (the "Obama Tyranny").   I would have said Obamanazis, but that might be too inflammatory and just make people angry.  As if.... The whole sham of the 2008 Democratic convention, and delegates and Superdelegates NOT being allowed to exercise their rights to vote in accordance with the results of their home districts, is beyond disheartening.  It is morally corrupt.  It has pushed me beyond my endurance for any more, not one more, not even one more word about "the ends justify the means."  Fuck that.  And, fuck that big time. This whole Obamacrats-gone-wild scenario reminds of the movie Mars Attacks .  If you haven't seen it, it is a classic from the mind of Tim Burton.  In it, the Martians, as they ruthlessly gun earthlings down shout "Don't run, we are your friends." There is no such thing as a "benevolent dictatorship."  The means to an end are more than extremely important.  Winning may be important, but how you win is even more important.  Those who feel they can skip the process and cheat their way into power in a nation that strongly demands democratic practices, cannot be trusted, not mat ...

Source: donedems.com --- 91 days ago
The tides are certainly turning. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to gain support, and is, in fact, out pacing Obama in current polls against McCain. Senator Clinton is still a more formidable candidate for president than the presumptuous nominee, and she’s suspended her campaign. Rasmussen reports: However, McCain fares better against Obama than he does against two other [...] ...

Source: rawtalk.wordpress.com --- 103 days ago
Hillary Clinton concedes but is not giving up delegates? What type of concoction is she creating now? Okay…I can understand that she may want to stay in the race to get back a lot of the money which she lost and replace the moneys which she pulled from her own savings accounts to fund her campaign. …but whose [...] ...

Source: logisticsmonster.wordpress.com --- 28 days ago
Lo and Behold, It seems that the Democratic Party Leadership is realizing just how arrogant and juvenile Gumby is and are echoing what PUMAs were trying to tell the Superdelegates before the convention. Barack Obama is in denial and is going to lose this election in November. It is not at all amazing to me that [...] ...

Source: 1read.wordpress.com --- 40 days ago
——————————————————————————— 1. US-Presidential Election 2008 and failed policies of Republican President Bush Barack Obama, winning more than 2206 delegates (including 441 Superdelegates) has succeeded to clinch the Democratic Presidential nomination and Clinton, the most successful female Presidential candidate in US history, ended her courageous campaign with an emotional speech, asking her voters to get behind Obama, endorsing his nomination and giving [...] ...

Source: www.thenewpolitics.com --- 102 days ago
The "other shoe" keeps dropping. Just how many legs and feet does Obama have, and thus how many more shoes are there to drop? As I wrote to a friend, an Obama supporter, "What's next? Asking Joe Lieberman to be his running mate?" Put another way, a question I put forward in a much earlier post: Just how many progressive principles is Obama willing to sacrifice in order to achieve "post-partisanship"? We are beginning to get the answer. Consider his recent stance on FISA; the pandering to the right with his proposed augmentation of Bush's "faith-based initiative;" the obfuscations of his position on ending the war in Iraq; and his, uh, restatement of just what it means for a woman to have a "right to choose." To my fellow-progressives, my fellow-liberals, those of you who giddily parroted Obama's "change" mantra, projected your own "hope" onto a blank screen, confused style with substance -- how are you feeling today about your candidate? I know that the FISA business has caused a great stir on the listserves and in the comment area of Obama's website. But that may not be enough. It may be time for serious re-thinking. It's not too late for Superdelegates to change their minds. All it would take is a caucus, and a vote for Hillary, and the nomination could be hers after all. That's what Superdelegates are all about...being the grown-ups who keep the Democratic Party from being hijacked. And make no mistake, it is being hijacked, by a ch ...