it's a tie, she's ahead in the popular vote that the entire point of the super's is to pick the one that can best win. I don't think Barack can win, but if he's the nom I'll be holding my fingers and hoping. He hasn't the judgment, too many gaffs. just today when he heard of Senator Kennedy's hospitalization he made a statement that sounded like he knew the man is dead already "He WAS one of my favorite people." Has he no advisors at all? She made the appropriate one: "My thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Ted Kennedy and his family today. We all wish him well and a quick recovery."
How hard is that?
1. She's not ahead in the popular vote.
2. This is a delegate race, not a PV race.
3. The superdelegates are picking the one that can best win.
4. That's why the superdelegates are endorsing Obama at a >10 to 1 ratio.
They are (apparently) Picking the one that they THINK will be mostly likely to win. Or possilby simply just jumping on a bandwagon or trying to avoid a longer primary. Remember superdelgedates aren't possessed with special powers that enable them to pick presidential winners correctly. THey gave us Mondale in 84, for example. Many of them are the same people from back then too.
since they haven't rushed en masse to Barack, giving him a certain victory, what do you think they're waiting for? Many who haven't endorsed are in congress, and they want to win their seats back. many of their small town constituents voted for hillary and poll far less favorably for Barack. Are they supposed to turn against their own voters to go for a guy who is less prepared, and has a reduced chance of winning the GE? Well, it's rhetorical, we'll all see soon enough. How long until Denver? In this case the Dem's have an advantage over pug districts, they've been elected by Democrats and they represent Democrats, not indies or left-leaning libertarians. She's got the Reagan Dem's with her, that's a big loss for him, he praised Reagan and wrongly predicted they'd go with him in a landslide that would give him a mandate. he's already proven wrong, how much wronger does he need to prove himself to be?
Sorry, but do you ever stop and read what you're writing. Half the time I don't even understand what you're wrighting. Take a breath before you start, already.
stop the charm, I'm getting pulled to Barack by the force of your charm.
I don't think you understand what a "reagan democrat is". At least judging by your last statement, and a rather silly statement you made before that Hillary Clinton had won Reagan democrats - a feat that "not even Bill Clinton" had done.
Here: "Reagan democrats" are what the media likes to call ethnic working class whites. It's not an ideology - it's a demographic.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, beginning a tour of hospitals in Eugene, Ore., told reporters that he had been in touch with the senator's family. "Ted Kennedy is a giant in American political history. He's done more for health care than just about anybody in history. We are going to be rooting for him. I insist on being optimistic about how it's going to turn out."
My source is here - where's yours from?
'tis a magical place.
first statement vs. someone had a word with him?
I'm sure you have some kind of source to back your accusation up, is all I'm saying...don't you?
Or are you making things up again?
actually anna, you're taking a horrible snark attempt by susanhu made at No Quarter and passing it off like its true. She doesn't have a source either. Grow up, anna.
You usually make more or less rational arguments, but not this time. If you really think Obama response to Ted Kennedy's seizure then you are now in straw grasping territory.
I'd appreciate a link to his statement where he refers to Ted Kennedy in the past tense.
Thanks.
I'd like to see the link also. It's all partisan now, isn't it? Unfortunately, it is intra party now.
That's really low, trying to make a political scandal out of that.
You stay classy, anna shane.
I thought it was funny. It's true, I didn't make it up.
Yet you can't cite a source on it.
can't? Silly you?
Either you can't or you won't. If you can't, your accusation is false. If you won't, its still false and you're fully aware you're lying. Which is it, anna?
This is pathetic, even by your standards. Cite a source to back up your absurd quote or retract it.
Lost rate and rec for issuing a '1' to a trollish comment. The troll, not so much.
trying to bully me? Go to No Quarter, or google it.
Oh, anna. I just did.
2 results. Your source on No Quarter is Susanhu. And she doesn't have a source either. She made a sarcastic comment and you fell for it, and more so, you tried to pass it off as the truth.
The only other source for that phrase in conjunction with Obama and Kennedy is another blog calling her out on taking a ludicrous low blow at Obama using Kennedy's medical emergency as a foil.
You're a fool, or a troll.
And since you knew providing a link to this was going to prove your insincerity, I'll provide it for you:
Google search
Susanhu's sad little hitjob on No Quarter
Right, anna shane. I was just engaging in sexist bullying. It had nothing to do with you spreading lies.
Oh, and thanks to upstate girl for proving you were spreading lies.
Wow. I used to count you as a somewhat reasonable Hillbot. No more.
It's not a tie at all. By every measure that counts all voters, Barack Obama is ahead in the popular vote, and more importantly for the process of the nomination, he's virtually clinched the pledged delegate count even with FL and MI. There is no fair metric that shows Hillary Clinton in any kind of lead at all.
that's the spin, but I'm not buying it. In certified votes she's ahead by about 50,000, not a lot, but sure to grow with kentucky. Nice diary, eh?
Why are you abusing the rating system in many diaries??
That's the problem: certified votes are meaningless when so many states have different ways of counting the vote and deciding their nomination. Whether that's fair or right isn't the question here; the fact is that they do, and certified votes alone leave a great deal to be desired.
There are two main problems with going only by certified votes:
I said "two main reasons" and added the third in. That preview button is there for a reason.