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He currently over 60% in VA. That's huge considering HRC was leading by 20+ points just three months ago.
District of Columbia - MSNBC
He currently over 60% in VA. That's huge considering HRC was leading by 20+ points just three months ago.
I didn't even know the results were coming in yet?!?
Maryland polls close at 9:30 ET because of bad weather/traffic.
Maryland - CNN
Barack The Vote!!!
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...802130441/1361Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention would be a grave injustice, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday in a break with prominent civil rights leaders.
"I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic Party's rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice," Sharpton said in a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
"As former presidential candidates we both know that, whether we liked them or not, we adhered to the rules set forth by the Democratic Party to select its nominee for president."
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Sharpton, a black activist and radio talk show host, sought the presidency in 2004.
NAACP chairman Julian Bond also wrote Dean recently, taking the opposite position. Bond said failure to seat the delegates would disenfranchise minority voters in Florida and Michigan.
Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry and former Justice Department official Roger Wilkins also wrote Dean urging the DNC settle the issue before the convention for the good of the party.
Berry -- who oversaw the 2001 report that studied the disputed 2000 Florida election and found thousands of voters, particularly black voters, were disenfranchised -- said she is also concerned about disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida voters, although she didn't make a recommendation on how the DNC should resolve the dispute.
The DNC penalized Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries to earlier dates in violation of party rules. Both states were stripped of their delegates, and the party's presidential candidates signed a pledge not to campaign in either state. Florida lost all 210 delegates, including its superdelegates; Michigan, 156.
Since then, waging a hard-fought delegate battle with Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has pushed hard for both states' delegations to be seated. Clinton won Florida's primary Jan. 29 and Michigan's Jan. 15, but was the only candidate to appear on the Michigan ballot after the other candidates removed their names.
Sharpton said he disagreed with those who say minority voters in Florida and Michigan will be disenfranchised.
"That claim, if true, should have been made many months ago before the decision was made to strip these states of their delegates, and, once the decision was made, it should have been vigorously objected to and contested by those who felt it disenfranchised voters," Sharpton wrote. "To raise that claim now smacks of politics in its form most raw and undercuts the moral authority behind such an argument."
The DNC has said it would allow both states to hold a different contest, probably a caucus, that would comply with party rules. Either state can also appeal the penalty to the DNC credentials committee, which will not meet again until this summer.
OMG, did I just find myself agreeing with Sharpton?!
Me too.
Clinton's camp is grasping for anything now. Trying to make Michigan & Florida a civil rights matter is just one trial balloon.
Hey Rush just nailed it. The old Sammy Davis song:
Candy Man. That is Obama. The Candy Man. Just listen to it.Candyman
Obama is Jewish?
Barrack Hussein Obama, son.
That boys as Protestant as they come, ya hear?
That's the one thing about the general election. Everyone's uncle, you know, the King of Email Forwards, will be filling up our inboxes warning us about the shifty Moslem interloper who would be POTUS. Or better yet, the glib little ditties about how we beat Hussein and we Obama is next with an image of the "s" in Osama scratched out and replaced with a "b".
Obama takes Wisconsin!!
Her goose is cooked.
Hillary ought to feel some tears coming on.
OH, TX, PA to come, then It's Ova
Dead heat in TX
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/...xas/index.html
If Obama campaigns hard in Texas he'll win it. He should hit Houston and the Valley for the Latino vote. I'm sure he'll be back in SA before March 4 for another push at a bigger rally than today's.
I went to the rally at Plaza Guadalupe today and he was amazing. That's not why I think he'll win it - he just has all the momentum right now.
He looks like he's in his twenties up close!
ing wow.
Kirk Watson of Texas is about to implode on national TV.
Chris Matthews just asked him to name some legislative accomplishments of Barack Obama and he could barely respond that he couldn't respond.
Texas' District 14 should be embarrassed.
CNN reports Barack wins Hawaii.
No, Matthews let him get his thoughts in about why Obama would be good for the country and then he asked him what Obama's legislative accomplishments were.
Watson stuttered and flubbed words trying to eventually respond that he didn't know how to respond.
Matthews laid off him when I think his producers told him to rein it in, then he came back and asked him again. Once the interviews were over, Matthews laid into him some more.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...s_n_87493.html
I couldn't even watch this humiliation, it was so bad.
The incident be spun by the Repug slime machine as Obama's fault.
Youre in the press, am I correct?
That was very awkward, and honestly, I couldnt answer the question either.
Because the answer is "None."
Good God you're a ing idiot.
dubya had no career or accomplishments in politics but was drafted as Repug/neo- puppet.
Obama simply can't be worse,nor can Hillary.
Hillary and Obama supporters have polled as almost completely accepting of which ever one wins the Dem nomination. The united, excited Dem voters will simply numerically overwhelm the divided, lukewarm Repug voters.
McCain is roadkill. The majority simply don't want war-mongering, bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran McCain to continue as war-mongering dubya's 3rd term.
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