Thread: Obama claims delegate lead

Obama claims delegate lead

By: Mike Allen
Feb 6, 2008 08:24 AM EST
Updated: February 6, 2008 11:09 AM EST

With the delegate count still under way, NBC News said Obama appears to have won around 840 delegates in yesterday’s contests, while Clinton earned about 830.
Photo: AP

In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.

The Obama camp now projects topping Clinton by 13 delegates, 847 to 834.

NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party's complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.

Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.

With the delegate count still under way, NBC News said Obama appears to have won around 840 delegates in yesterday’s contests, while Clinton earned about 830 — “give or take a few,â€

So do we want a half African or a woman to be our President? That is about the only choice left to make.

Originally Posted by Bowman

So do we want a half African or a woman to be our President? That is about the only choice left to make.

Isn't this funny???

An American citizen is referred to as being "half African"?

I thought "African Americans" are supposed to shed this hyphenated existence and embrace
nothing but AMERICAN!

The truth is not stranger than fiction.

I don't see how a "half African" or a woman could be any worse than what we have now!

Originally Posted by NiloticBeast

I don't see how a "half African" or a woman could be any worse than what we have now!

That's the point, we have NO choice as to who will look out for the best interests of Americans, our choices are only based on race and gender. How sick and pathetic.

By the way when I say half African I don't mean in the context of African American, I mean Obama will not give US citizens more rights than anyone else in the world who wants to come here and live. He is a true multiculturalist who thinks open borders should be a Constitutional right for everyone in the world, or at least the Americas.

I think I will start telling my Dem. friends to vote for Hillary in the primaries.

Originally Posted by TheFomorian

An American citizen is referred to as being "half African"?

Keep in mind that Fabian Nunez also is a "natural born American citizen" and can also become President, even though his parents were illegal aliens. In case you don't know, Fabian Nunez is the Mexicans-first reconquista who heads the CA legislature. American citizen does not always mean Americans first.