The delegate counters have been updated to reflect last night’s Potomac victories by Barack Obama. The delegate count as it stands now is: Barack Obama: 1215 Hillary Clinton: 1190 John McCain: 812 Mike Huckabee: 217 Obama now needs 810 delegates to lock up the nomination, with Clinton 25 delegates behind him. McCain needs 379, with [...]
I received this via an email list: Deja vu: Race vs Gender 1870-2008 By Marilyn Fitterman NOW NE Regional Director & Past President NOW-NYS The press, the media, the pundits, everyone is saying the Democratic presidential race should not be about race vs. gender. How ridiculous is that? We look at Hillary Clinton and we [...]
Barack Obama made another clean sweep, picking up a win in Maryland. Stick a fork in it, he’s the front-runner now. Technorati Tags: Barack Obama Sphere: Related Content
This little note may spell more trouble for the Hillary Clinton campaign than anything to this point. Hispanic voters have been some of her strongest supporters, but if they start to sit on their polling thumbs, it is going to be hard for her to win in Texas – and it is increasingly looking like [...]
DC, Md, and Va are holding their primaries today – so I’m not updating the counters until the voting is done. Still, other things are happening. Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell isn’t afraid to talk about bigotry, though he doesn’t seem bothered by it. . “I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had [...]
So it looks like the surge in Iraq has become a surge without end: Meeting with top commanders here, Mr. Gates said that after the departure this summer of the five extra combat brigades sent last year in “the surge” to pacify the Baghdad area, the American command should assess whether further troop reductions would [...]
Michael Cox and Richard Alm, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, want us to know that being poor isn’t so bad. Their proof: The top fifth of American households earned an average of $149,963 a year in 2006. As shown in the first accompanying chart, they spent $69,863 on food, clothing, shelter, utilities, transportation, [...]
Barack Obama continued to rack up wins by taking the Maine caucuses today. Hillary Clinton, 0-4 on the weekend, replaced her campaign manager Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Sphere: Related Content
Barack Obama won three contests yesterday, but he couldn’t keep Hillary Clinton from picking up some delegates. They square off in Maine today – so the delegate counts are sure to change in the not-too-distant future. As of now, they are: Hillary Clinton: 1108 Barack Obama: 1049 That puts Obama 59 delegates behind Clinton, who [...]
