Obama-mites converging on Municipal Auditorium

[spurschick]

Which is directly across the street from my office. Heard this morning that it was going to be the headquarters where he'll watch returns, address the Obama-mites, etc. Within a few hours it has become a freaking circus!! They've closed the streets, setting up media village... I have no idea how I'm supposed to get into our building tomorrow.

[xrayzebra]

Big doings in old San Antonio. News media going bonkers over
the whole mess.

[angel_luv]

Be safe Spurschick.

Hope traffic is not too much of a hassle for you.

[Holt's Cat]

Hopefully there is cause for celebration there tomorrow night.

[Trainwreck2100]

I hope he loses tomorrow$, all of this inter-party arguing amuses me

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

What's even nuttier is that apparently, caucus-goers will get preferred ticketing at the downtown event, so just imagine the crush of people coming in later than usual if the polls stay open any longer than 7 p.m.

[spurschick]

Just arrived at work - the streets are blocked off as promised and there are many, many news trucks. They've got bleachers set up on AT&T's lawn and a big Obama banner has been draped across the auditorium.

[Nbadan]

I doubt Obama-bots will have much too cheer till the race is way over tonight, way, way, over, but tomorrow could be a different a different story....

Obama’s Delegate Bomb

The 2008 presidential race has seen some creative campaign strategies, most notably the infamous Ron Paul money bomb. But if Tom Brokaw is correct, the Obama campaign may have something else up its sleeve: a superdelegate bomb.

This morning, Brokaw told Joe Scarborough on MSNBC that someone "very close to the Obama campaign" told him they have 50 endorsers "ready to go public" with their support. Presumably, this would be Obama's coup de grace after March 4.

Here’s how it might work. The likeliest of scenarios today is a split decision: Clinton wins Ohio, Obama wins Texas. In which case, expect spin chaos. Obama’s people will point to the overall pledged delegate count. The Clinton camp will direct your attention to the popular votes and claim the Texas caucus doesn’t matter.


But the Obama campaign has two secret weapons: money and superdelegates. On the money front, the Obama campaign can finally reveal its February fundraising totals. Clinton announced last week that she had raised $35 million that month; estimates put Obama’s number somewhere north of $50 million. But they’ve waited to announce it, presumably because they wanted to get the timing just right.

After unveiling the cash, send in the superdelegates. Since Super Tuesday, Obama has netted a total of more than 36 new superdelegates, whereas Clinton has lost six. (They continued to trickle Obama-ward today.) If today’s contests are tight, all eyes will turn to superdelegates for guidance on who’s winning. Normally, it matters who's doing the endorsing. But, at this point, big names like Al Gore and Jimmy Carter won’t endorse until a candidate is locked in. Same with party leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, who don’t benefit from choosing sides. So it’s not about who endorses butabout how many people do. Were the Obama campaign to drop a 50-ton superdelegate bomb on the Clinton campaign’s head the day after a tie, it’s not hard to see where momentum would swing.

Combined with the moneybomb, the superdelegate bomb could decide the race. But like any bomb, it’s something you don’t use unless you have to. To that end, the Obama campaign might have leaked the news to Brokaw to try to scare Hillary into dropping out. That way, she would avoid an embarrassing exodus of superdelegates. But if the threat doesn’t work, and the results of March 4 are close, Obama will waste no time in pushing the red button.

Slate

[Nbadan]

...ummm....just a hint, if you want to party with the very-likely (after tonight) 08 Democratic candidate, a very good orator on a night he likely raps up the Demo nomination, you might want to start heading down to the auditorium....think history..