The news coming on a conference call with the Obama campaign that begins momentarily.
Reps. Mel Watt and David Price were both Edwards supporters.
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Reps. Watt and Price To Endorse Obama in North Carolina
16 Apr 2008 01:07 pm
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More movement on the Hillary Deathwatch. She's down at 10% now.
http://www.slate.com/id/2162248/landing/1/
I'm fascinated by this: I watch it like the stock market. Are others as fascinated?
Does anyone think her chances are higher?
Every time Hillary pulls out another page from the Karl Rove playbook, a few more superdelegates seem to break for Obama. Here's a hint, Hillary. Democrats are not fond of you campaigning as a Republican.
It gets better: 25 out of 35 Democratic South Dakota state legislators just endorsed Obama en masse.
Dan -
Is that true? How come I haven't heard about that - Obama's underplaying these, while HRC re-announces some Penna. mayors as a "major development"
Check it out (listed on the front page of Obama's site):
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC5pC
By the way--adding to the good news day for Obama--he has now secured the endorsements of all of the biggest newspapers in PA (Philly, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Scranton, Harrisburg).
DW, I just don't see how her chances are anywhere close to 10%. And it won't be long before I think Al Gore has a better shot at the nomination than she does. (I wouldn't rate her chances much higher than his.)
Her own electability issues means that Obama has to get massively unelectable in order for Clinton to seem like a viable solution; and given that with every week it seems like she gets even more unelectable, I just have a hard time seeing a scenario where the SD's skip Obama to get to Clinton.
DW: I think her chances are lower. Waiting for your opponent to implode is not a strategy.
I just like to marvel at what she'll try next, and how many attempts to hamstring the nominee the supers will be willing to watch before the harm of letting her cry "No fair! There's 10 seconds to go on the clock and I might score 4 touchdowns in that time!" is less than the harm of letting her cut and fund McCain's ads.
Her approval rating is now down in the 30s among independents. You know, that swing group that decides elections?
Deborah, I hear you... I keep wondering, will she go out like Al (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQXmeFqN-is) or Merteuil (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ-IG8qKaJI)?
If Obama can hold tight, come June, if HRC has not conceded, I expect we'll see a tidal wave of undeclared supers endorsing Obama. I really don't think they will allow this to go to the convention, especially at the risk of HRC continuing to claw at Obama.
At some point, you have to start wondering what the endgame becomes. Coming out of the last primaries, Obama should be within about 40 superdelegates away from denying HRC a first ballot win, and around 80 from clinching himself. I would think there would be tremendous pressure on the super delegates at that point to wrap things up - there simply is no real reason to let it go all the way to the convention at that point, particularly if Clinton is continuing to run a slash and burn campaign at that point.
After June 3rd, public and private pressure starts moving supers in batches.
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Sounds like a good day for the Obama campaign.
Posted by rikyrah | April 16, 2008 1:44 PM