"Mich. and Fla. alone won't win Clinton the nomination"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michigan and Florida alone can't save Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in Clinton's best-case scenario. Clinton has been arguing for reinstating all the delegates from both states, whose primaries she won.
Even if they were reinstated, it wouldn't erase Barack Obama's growing lead in delegates. Yesterday, he picked up endorsements from a California congressman and two former John Edwards delegates from South Carolina, increasing his total to 1,904, within 122 of clinching the nomination...."
And that was on Saturday. He PICKED UP MORE yesterday!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama inched closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination with delegate pickups in Nevada, Kansas, and Maryland.
In Nevada, Obama stole a delegate from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton by drawing more supporters at the state Democratic convention yesterday.
A vote of more than 2,500 convention delegates broke 55-45 percent in Obama's favor, giving Obama 14 of Nevada's 25 pledged delegates to the National Democratic Convention in Denver this summer to Clinton's 11.
The shift is a gain of one pledged delegate for Obama over the split calculated after the state's January caucuses. Although Clinton won the support of 51 percent of the caucus-goers in January, under the complicated system of awarding delegates Obama was put on track to winning 13 delegates to Clinton's 12.
Nevada Democrats were also scheduled to select an additional unpledged, or "add-on," delegate later in the day. In an attempt to draw supporters, the Clinton campaign sent the New York senator's most popular surrogate to speak on her behalf, former President Clinton. He focused his comments on a call for party unity in November."
Wow, has that guy's influence waned!
Doesn't get the media coverage anymore, and has NO EFFECT on the voters!!!
