Campaign donors who previously backed also-ran Democratic candidates have adopted Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice, preferring Obama by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1 over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and giving him twice as much money.
Obama has collected more than $2 million to Clinton’s $900,000 from donors who once backed former Sen. [...]
Speaking of math — the Obama campaign rolls out another former DNC chairman’s endorsement on Friday: Paul Kirk, a superdelegate who led the party from 1985-1989, is coming out for Obama — a day after Andrew’s switch, an Obama campaign official tells The Note. (And don’t count on that being it for the day, as [...]
A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to “heal the rift in our party” and unite behind the Illinois senator.
Link:My Way News
“The majority of superdelegates I’ve talked to are committed, but it is a matter of timing,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). “They’re just preferring to make their decision public after the primaries are over. … They would like someone else to act for them before they talk about it in the cold light of day.”
Obama [...]
Despite his loss in Pennsylvania and other campaign bumps, Barack Obama is heavily favored to win what will be the final and decisive contest for the Democratic presidential nomination — the “invisible primary” for the convention votes of party leaders.
Link:WSJ.com
Never one of the Senate’s most high-profile members, Bingaman now has a claim to political fame: He put Obama over the top after his long slog to catch Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had a head start in winning the support of her peers. Obama now has 14 endorsements to Clinton’s 13.
Obama will also get [...]
Yes, Julie Nixon Eisenhower is an Obama-can.
Just before the crush of states that voted on Feb. 5, Ms. Eisenhower, one of two daughters of President Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Pat, made a $1,000 contribution to Mr. Obama, according to campaign finance records. Two weeks later, she gave another $1,000. And early last month, [...]
That is not to take anything away from this exceptional man. But what’s going on is bigger than him at this point, and that’s a good thing for the country. Because, when he wins in November, that Obama Movement is going to have to stay alert and active. Corporate America is not going to give [...]
Could it be the “vast right wing conspiracy” is having second thoughts? Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.
It was one of a handful of endorsements the New York [...]
If the Democratic presidential race were a poker game, by now you’d have to suspect that Barack Obama’s campaign is dealing from the bottom of the deck: Rarely a day goes by when it doesn’t slap another ace down on the table. The aces in this possibly strained metaphor are endorsements, and it often seems [...]
For those of you keeping score, Barack Obama has now moved past Hillary Clinton in terms of announced support from elected superdelegates (governors, senators and representatives).
He picked up three more on Wednesday.
Obama still trails Clinton slightly in overall superdelegates, 257-234.
But in overall delegates he leads by 141, 1,650-1,509. This according to the authoritative NBC count.
Link:Los [...]
Pennsylvania’s Democratic voters on April 22 will choose between two candidates in the presidential primary. Both are qualified to become the nation’s chief executive. They have more similarities than differences. But, The Morning Call recommends that Sen. Barack Obama be nominated, and we offer three reasons.
Link:Obama’s vision is reason to nominate him — themorningcall.com
Barack Obama already had the Bus in his corner.
Now, he has the Bus’s boss.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers fullback Jerome Bettis joined Obama for part of his bus tour through Pennsylvania. Today, Steelers owner and chairman Dan Rooney announced his support.
Link:Boston.com
There was that “3 a.m.” TV ad, in which Clinton questioned Obama’s personal mettle. “That upset me,” Richardson said.
There were some ham-fisted phone calls from Clinton backers, who questioned Richardson’s honor and suggested that the governor, who served in President Clinton’s Cabinet, owed Hillary Clinton his support. “That really ticked me off,” Richardson said.
Link:Los Angeles [...]
Democrat grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president.
Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race.
Former president Carter and former vice-president Gore have [...]
