Saturday, January 26, 2008

South Carolina Primary Today

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South Carolina holds its Democratic primary today. This is the last (binding) primary for the Democrats before Super Tuesday on February 5th. Polls opened at 7 am and will close at 7 pm.

South Carolina residents can find their polling places at SCVotes.org Continue Reading...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Obama wins South Carolina easily

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Latest results here, still waiting for final delegate counts.

Update: Obama 25, Clinton 12, Edwards 8. Delegate Trackers have been updated. Continue Reading...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Missing superdelegate endorsements

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As our regular readers know, we only count a superdelegate for a candidate if there is a public record of support for the candidate. That puts our numbers lower then some media organizations, which use a much lower bar for their numbers.

We know that we have avid supporters from all the campaigns posting and sending us tips about endorsements, so we’re asking for your help. The AP provides a state-by-state breakdown of their delegate count. We’ve compared it with our state-by-state breakdown, and we’ve identified the states where we are missing some superdelegate endorsements. We’ve listed below every state where the AP shows 2 or more superdelegates than we do. Go out and hit Google or Lexus-Nexus, and find our missing superdelegates. Remember, we need publicly available sources. Continue Reading...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Major Media starts looking at superdelegates

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On Friday night Keith Olbermann did a story on superdelegates and how they may be the key to a candidate getting the nomination. Crooks and Liars is hosting the video in a post called Forget Super Tuesday Or Even Tsunami Tuesday, It’s All About The Super-Delegates

Video from Crooks and Liars Continue Reading...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Is Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin still a superdelegate?

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A commenter tipped us off to the fact that Providence Mayor David Cicilline was elected yesterday to head the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. Mayor Cicilline takes over for Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. From everything we’ve heard from the DNC, this position comes with superdelegate status.

Here’s where things get interesting. If Mayor Franklin loses her superdelegate status (which we will try to confirm on Monday) Barack Obama loses one of his endorsers. Mayor Cicilline on the other hand backs Clinton adding a superdelegate to her tally. For now we will leave Franklin on Obama’s list but I have linked her name to the article above. Continue Reading...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Conventional Wisdom

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• Andre Walker at MyDD discusses how the Georgia delegate selection rules could hurt Obama
• Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper discussed the $50 million in security funds with Justice Dept. officials.
• Washington & Lee University holds its mock Democratic Convention this weekend. They’ve had them since 1948, and their pick has been wrong only once, in 1972. You can watch the live webcast here. Update: Clinton won.

Posted by Matt at 9:20 AM

Conventional Wisdom2008-01-26T09:20:00-05:00Matt

Saturday, January 26, 2008

CBS: Obama over 100 superdelegates

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Just a quick note that CBS now has Obama at 106 superdelegates, the first time any media organization has had him over 100. We’ve got him at 85 public superdelegates, so there are 21 Obama delegates, as well as 26 Clinton and 11 Edwards delegates, that are hiding out there. (We’ll have Sen. Bill Nelson’s endorsement of Clinton on the list when its announced on Tuesday).

Posted by Matt at 12:23 AM Continue Reading...

Friday, January 25, 2008

Clinton wants Florida and Michigan delegates counted

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We’ve been tracking the controversy over the Florida and Michigan delegates to the Democratic Convention, and today it took center stage in the Democratic race:

In a bit of political theater, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Florida Democratic Party clamored to restore convention delegates that had been stripped by the national party. At stake: 185 delegates in a state where Clinton leads almost 2-to-1. Continue Reading...

Thursday, January 24, 2008

NY Times/CBS Superdelegate survey

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The New York Times and CBS News just completed their latest survey of superdelegates for the 2008 Democratic Convention:

In an indication of where Democratic Party leaders are leaning, the telephone survey of the party’s superdelegates found about one-third of them undecided, 25 percent favoring Mrs. Clinton and about 10 percent supporting Mr. Obama. In an earlier survey completed by The Times and CBS News in November, more of the party leaders were undecided, though they supported Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Obama then as well. Continue Reading...