- Are those people in the audience really this passionate about their candidates? Do Republicans get like this too?
- Why was this on TV? Aren't things like this usually decided behind closed doors?
- The GOP must be licking their chops right now.
At stake for the DNC (besides Clinton) were the fates of delegates from Florida and Michigan, whose primaries were held earlier than the party wanted. Clinton, who unofficially won both primaries with little opposition, needed those delegates to be seated with full voting rights as a last-ditch attempt to unseat front-runner Barack Obama--even though both candidates initially agreed not to campaign in both states.
What Clinton got was a compromise worked out behind closed doors, in which the Florida and Michigan delegates were seated, but only got half a vote. This doesn't change the math much in her favor. With Clinton's victory in the Puerto Rico primary earlier today, the new formula (according to MSNBC) reads like this, with 2,118 needed to nominate:
OBAMA 2,072 delegates, needing 46 more.
CLINTON 1,915 delegates, needing 203 more.
Which means that, after the primaries in Montana and South Dakota--and with enough superdelegates in his pocket, Obama can claim victory Tuesday night at the site of this year's GOP convention, the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. That is, if Clinton doesn't spoil the party by carrying out her threat to take this matter to the Democratic Convention in Denver.
While all this was going on, Obama and his wife Michelle have left the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where they had been members for decades. The Illinois senator must have decided enough was enough after videos of a visiting Catholic priest named Michael Pfleger (who happens to be white) made an idiot of himself, mocking Clinton in a racially insensitive manner.
One controversial preacher was bad enough, but two is just too much for Obama. And you wonder why religion gets a bad name.
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