Obama claims delegate lead (840 to Hill's 830)

poitico ^ | 2 6 2008 | poitico

[dennisw]

In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.

Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.

With the delegate count still under way, NBC News said Obama appears to have won around 840 delegates in yesterday’s contests, while Clinton earned about 830 — “give or take a few,” Tim Russert, the network’s Washington bureau chief, said on the “Today” show.

The running totals for the two, which includes previous contests and the party officials known as “superdelegates,” are only about 70 delegates apart, Russert said.

[camle]

wait forHillary’s demand to count florida now that she needs them.

[dennisw]

Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma
Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma
Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma Boma

GO BOMA!!!!!1111111!!!!!111!!!!111!!!

First order of battle is destroy the Hill-Bill Clinton machine. We’ll take care of the rest later

[dinoparty]

This could get good.

[Red in Blue PA]

.....and Michigan.

She’ll win either by hook or by crook. Well, in her case it is definitely the latter.

[Red in Blue PA]

If she doesn’t come out ahead here, wait for the tears to start flowing!

[dennisw]

wait forHillary’s demand to count florida now that she needs them.

For fans of girl fights -- fingernails scratching windmill punching gouging grabbing hair--  look for a Florida delegate fight at the convention if Boma and Hill are close enough

[randita]

Obama gave a very inspiring speech last night but it was late into the evening. Probably only those in the west were awake late enough to hear it. Hillary just screeched through her speech, but in was earlier so more people probably heard hers.

[arazitjh]

Hope this delegate count in favor of Obama is true but the numbers on screen all morning long on the lazy liberal media outlets still show Hitlery with a delegate lead of about 80....Hmmmmmmmmm!!

[OCC]

Its gonna be Hillary/Obama 2008... Hillorama!

[MaryFromMichigan]

I whole heartedly agree.

[SeaHawkFan]

Hillary loses votes every time she speaks. Can you imagine her debating McCain or Huckabee. Huckabee is the best speaker of all the candidates and even McCain is much better than Hillary.

[FlipWilson]

Obama sure can give a rousing, inspiring speech. . .yet say so little. A chicken in every pot, pot for every chicken, change is on the way, yes we can, blah blah blah. But at the end of the day this guy has nadda clue about how to deliver on any of this BS. Is that really you Jimmah Carter wearing an Obama suit?

[Post-Neolithic]

"wait forHillary’s demand to count florida now that she needs them."

Yep, the ball was already put in the court by her 2 weeks ago.

[sergeantdave]

Should be an interesting election. Both parties are being torn to shreds. The democrat racists will stay home and refuse to vote for obama. The Obama supporters will refuse to vote for hillary if she steals the nomination.

I need not rehash what will happen if McCain is the nominee.

With all the people staying home this election, the presidency may be decided by 3 people voting, and half of them will be drunk.

[arazitjh]

Michael Reagan was on Fox News this morning and said Hillary gave the best speech last night and sounded “Reaganesque”. IMO she sounded like her usual dull screechy self so not sure what he’s thinking. The left coast is just plain weird much of the time!

[reagan_fanatic]

Hillary gave the best speech last night and sounded “Reaganesque”.

Wouldn't calling Hillary 'Reaganesque' be considered a grievous insult by Her Heinous?

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: Huckabee is the best speaker of all the candidates

You must be kidding.

I wish Obama was a Republican.

[tobyhill]

Somesone needs go batto skool and learns to doos da numers.

[Red Badger]

She’ll win either by hook or by crook.

She’ll win by hook AND by crook..........

[Red Badger]

..wait forHillary’s demand to count florida now that she needs them.

She already has. Says it isn't fair..........

[ArrogantBustard]

Message to Mr. & Mrs. Obama:

Get a good burglar alarm.

Buy a gun (or two). Learn how to use them.

Watch six.

Trust Nobody.

Stay away from Ft. Marcy Park.

[Hattie]

Obama had to win big last night to make it solo. Didn’t happen. He will be her Veep.

[Dixie Yooper]

Too bad the Democrat’s Super Delegates are too fine and upstanding to be bought and paid for by an unscrupulous candidate like Hillary and Bill...

[Quilla]

With all the people staying home this election, the presidency may be decided by 3 people voting, and half of them will be drunk.

So true. The other night our neighbors received a call from a pollster wanting to speak to a registered voter. She simply said before hanging up, "Right now, all the registered voters are drunk."

[shiva]

wait for the tears to start flowing!

Yeah, for the third time I may add.

[Clemenza]

The Preacher is a good speaker, as are most good snake oil salesman.

Hillary has such a GRATING voice. The substance of what she says is worst.

[jveritas]

First, I think that this should belong to the breaking news section.

Barak Obama is for sure the biggest surprise in this election. No one ever though 6 weeks ago that Barak Obama is going to be where he is now, in fact everyone expected the easy coronation of Hillary Clinton. On the contrary the Clintons and their political machine have been fighting tooth and nail, with ultimate sleaze and dirt to win the nomination. Hillary Clinton still has 90% chance of ending up the nominee but this election proved the most fatal flaw regarding Hillary Clinton, “herself”. She is the meanest and most unlikable candidate to run for President in decades if not in generations and for this alone she is not going to be elected President.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Yesterday, I was rooting for Obama almost as hard as I rooted for the Giants. With McCain locked in as the gop nominee, all I have left is to hope that at least hillary isn’t president. Obama strikes me as a decent human being. I do not believe he has a knife to stab in my back like McCain and hillary do. As conservatives we’re their mortal enemy not the Islamic fascists. The country is finished if any of these three become president. Maybe we’re better off with Obama at the helm. Because if he is a decent man, maybe he’ll admit he’s wrong and make change as the nation falls into ruin. It’s a billion to one shot i’m sure, but we have not shot if McCain and Hillary are in power.

[cvq3842]

My semi-tongue-in-cheek prediction is that Obama will win the Democrat nomination and the Republican Party establishment will nominate Hillary, saying she has the best chance to stop him. Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol will say that conservatives have no place else to go, and need to “grow up” and support the more conservative choice.

:)

[BobinIL]

Hillary looses votes especially when she starts in with the ex-mother-in-law shriek. That noise reminds me of the sounds the ringwraiths make on Lord of the Rings.

[cvq3842]

I would agree with you to the extent that I don’t want to see either Hillary, McCain or Obama as president.

And no, I don’t thing either Hillary or McCain has the requisite character for the job. I don’t know enough about Obama, but things seem so bad I think many of us are grasping at straws at this point.

I can’t see any of the three, or Huckabee, ever getting my vote.

[Aria]

Except for the not so small matter of his policies - like being pro abortion and pro illegals, and weak on defense, I really like this guy. He gave a great inspiring speech last night. No race baiting, no divisiveness, in fact the opposite of that. However, Hillary in her speech last night spent a bunch of time bashing Republicans and Bush. Then she did a run down of the victims = the single mom who can’t get insurance....etc. her standard stuff and of course she will fix it all.

I agree that getting rid of Hillbilly is the priority...Well, Obama did say that “there is one candidate who has taken more lobbyist money than the Republican candidates combined”...so it wasn’t all platitudes.

[Red in Blue PA]

I agree with your sentiments and have been rooting accordingly.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

You’re right, I’m grasping at straws. I thought the 2006 elections were tough. That’s nothing compared to the amnesty revolution we’re going to see this year.

[Red in Blue PA]

I send that this should be moved to Breaking News.

[Pearls Before Swine]

She is the meanest and most unlikable candidate to run for President in decades if not in generations and for this alone she is not going to be elected President.

Except for one thing--it looks like she'll be running against John "Cuddly" McCain.

[tfecw]

Obama strikes me as a decent human being. I do not believe he has a knife to stab in my back like McCain and hillary do.

I don't know how he's done it, but this myth that Obama is less of a liberal than hillary still prevails. Look at their voting records before you start rooting for one of the most liberal senators.

Politicians don't admit they are wrong.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

I know I’m in pure anger mode right now. I know Obama’s polices are right out of the communist manifesto. But we all know who McCain is. So as Rush says who would we rather have destroy the counrty? Maybe Rush should go a step further and advocate a new political party.

[jveritas]

A mean man is more acceptable to people than a mean woman. That is our human nature.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

But is he evil like hillary, is he the vindictive hateful man that McCain is, a man that will use the powers of his office to destroy those he dislkes and views as an obstacle to his goals?

[tobyhill]

Obama is a coke snorting Muslim. Obama is at the very least a radical Muslim sympathizer and will sell out our country to these terrorist. He will order the release of all GITMO prisoners and will hand over Iraq to his terrorist friends. He wants our troops put on trial in the “World Court” for all the alleged crimes against Muslims. He wants our military to fall under the UN charter and do the African sand watch. If people haven’t seen the danger in this Muslim yet then they are beyond rational reasoning with.

[Puzzleman]

RealClearPolitics shows the count of delegates as:

Hillary -- non-super 689 + super 211 = total 900

Obama -- non-super 696 + super 128 = total 824

Here is the link.

[tfecw]

Thanks for clarifying. if you hadn’t had mentioned Muslims part i wouldn’t have known if you were talking about McCain, Hillary or Obama.

[varon]

I wish Obama was a Republican.

He is but in some parts of the country they're called Democrats.

[tobyhill]

Pretty scary that all of them have such problems but although I disagree with McCain on 80% of his positions I don’t think he would sell out the US to radical Muslims, just Jose.

[cvq3842]

Sad, but true.

[Bookwoman]

For one thing, I think this time around it is too obvious that Hitlery is fighting with “ultimate sleaze and dirt” whereas Osama’s dirt is being kept in the background and most sheeple are too ignorant to know about it. Her shrill voice is a turnoff, as are her disgusted facial expressions. She just is not likable.

[jveritas]

Her shrill voice is a turnoff, as are her disgusted facial expressions. She just is not likable.

Agree 100%.

[Red Badger]

Bought? Don’t forget those 900 FBI Files that they had. Better than money............