Obama's Campaign to Focus on One Magic Number
As Clinton struggles, Obama keeps up the pressure. Not only is his campaign zeroing in on Republican candidate John McCain and behaving as if the Democratic race is just about over, but Obama has also made a key shift in framing the nomination contest. Obama and his advisers no longer emphasize his lead in total delegates over Clinton, which is a confusing mishmash. Instead, they're focused on an easy to comprehend concept: the dwindling number of delegates he needs to lock up a majority. Late last week, Obama press secretary Bill Burton announced that four more party leaders, all superdelegates, were endorsing the front-runner. Burton said that meant he needed only 169 more delegates for the nomination, neatly illustrating how close Obama is to locking things up.
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Wrong number. The magic number is 2209.
I believe the correct number is 2,209. I ignore the 2025. If you do uses the 2025 number you are cheating. You can't just keep changing all the rules. First the DNC robs the voters of their votes and then they change the numbers to fit the robbery. Why even bother with the regular delegates and the votes in the states if you're going to let the "super" delegates decide because the party thinks the regular delegates are too dumb to decide after they get elected? I tell you. That is baloney! They really need to do something with my so called "democrat" party.
Obama cose to winning the Democratic Nomination
I have a feeling that Mr. Barack Obama can very well win the Democratic Nomination, according to my predictions.
Kevin Silvestris
Worcester, MA
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