Obama clinches Democratic nomination

Associated Press ^ | 06/03/2008 | DAVID ESPO and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

[freedomwarrior998]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

[Lijahsbubbe]

McCain can and will defeat Obama. He never had a chance against Hitlery.

I see it the other way around. McCain had a chance against Hillary, against Obama? No.

[TexasCajun]

Sounds like the AP has a case of Premature Enunciation!

[freedomwarrior998]

There is no way that Obama can make up for almost guaranteed losses in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Hitlery would have carried all three, and thus the Presidency.

[Tea in the Harbor]

“Effectively clinching” is not clinching, which requires attaining a prescribed number of pledged delegates. Until the convention the superdelegates are free to change their minds as often as they like.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Ain’t nothing clinched until the delegates have their say at the Convention. How the delegates feel on June 3 2008 means nothing.

Ha! So true! I have this vision of Hillary morphing into a huge evil monster form at the convention and zapping people.

[Nextrush]

Don’t count “The Witch” out since her strategy is to hang herself around Obama’s neck as VP.

Beyond that, Obama’s mother is white so doesn’t that accurately make him “mixed race.”

[Williams]

He may but hasn’t yet secured the nomination. Sloppy reporting but no surprise there.

[TSchmereL]

We will never know for sure, but think McCain has a better chance against Obama.

[Cementjungle]

So AP did have it right?

AP isn't known for being accurate or honest. Keep the champagne on ice for a few hours more...

[nina0113]

I hate to lick the red off your candy cane, but the superdelegates don’t actually count until they VOTE at the convention. She can still flip them.

[Jeff Head]

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[Fresh Wind]

So, Obama finally bought the support of enough super delegates.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Look back to the Bush/Gore election.

Most conservatives and Republicans were gung-ho for Bush then, and Gore was the unlikeable boring one.

Now we have McCain, who is not liked by many conservatives, and we have Obama, who has a huge energized following.

I’ll stick with my opinion (because I think I’m right) :)

[freedomwarrior998]

I think we can know for sure. Appalachia HATES Obama. Appalachia includes Southern and Eastern Ohio, South Western and Middle Pennsylvania.

There is no way that Philadelphia and Cleveland overcome the margins that McCain is going to run up in the Appalachian portions of those states.

Without Pennsylvania and Ohio, Obama loses.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The MSM is desperate to declare for Obama. After that, it's Obama + MSM + Unions + 527’s + Europe and the Middle East vs McCain + RINO’s + Disgruntled Hillary voters + moderate Democrats.

[Miss Didi]

Golly, what happend to “Count every vote?”

What happened to wait until the polls close???

[TSchmereL]

[Shermy]

“I think she’s still not going to let Obama have tonite due to her sick sociopathic tendencies.”

But she is right. the so-called “pledged” superdelegates are not really so bound.

BTW, how do we know they are “pledged” - and how strongly?

[Shermy]

+ “youth vote”

[ClearCase_guy]

Until the convention the superdelegates are free to change their minds as often as they like.

Exactly right. What I find ironic is that whole concept of the superdelegate is to make sure that the Democrats have the capabality -- right up to the last minute! -- of changing their mind and saving themselves from a candidate who has suddenly become unelectable.

The DNC understands the purpose of the superdelegates.
The media understands the purpose of the superdelegates.

But it suits their purpose (today) to slap their hands together and say "Game Over!"

But they know it's not.