Obama receives the endorsement of Dennis Kucinich

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on January 2, 2008 at 8:51 am

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Representative Dennis Kucinich urged his Iowa followers today to select Senator Barack Obama as their second choice at the caucuses on Thursday if his support is not strong enough to be viable in the 1,781 precincts across the state.

“Senator Obama and I have one thing in common: Change” Mr. Kucinich said in a statement today.
The two spoke briefly by telephone before Mr. Obama flew here for an afternoon rally. In a statement, Mr. Obama took advantage of the opportunity to point out that he, along with Mr. Kucinich, opposed the war in Iraq. “He and I have been fighting for a number of the same priorities” Mr. Obama said.

Four years ago, during his first presidential bid, Mr. Kucinich announced a similar second-choice partnership with John Edwards. At the time, aides to Mr. Edwards said it helped contribute to his second-place finish in the caucuses.

Yeah. I’m sure all 13 of Dennis Kucinich’s supporters in Iowa are going to make a big difference for Obama going into tomorrow’s caucuses ;)

Speaking of Iowa, a new Des Moines Register poll shows Obama ahead of Clinton 32% to 28%, with John Edwards coming in at 24%. How significant is this? Well, last year going into the polls (according to a pollster I heard on the radio this morning), John Kerry was polling in the top spot over John Edwards, who was followed by Howard Dean, and that was the result of the Iowa caucuses as well.

And beyond Iowa, the MSM are feverishly reporting that it’s “neck in neck” in New Hampshire for both parties with just six days to go til the NH primary.

Stay tuned …

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5 Responses to “Obama receives the endorsement of Dennis Kucinich”

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  1. PCD says:

    ST,

    I am so sick of the crap that masquerades as campaigning here in Iowa.

    Yesterday, one of the main arteries in Dubuque had 2 blocks cleared of snow to enable Obama to speak at a middle school. The City Council and Mayor are Democrats. There is no other reason for this snow plowing decision.

    Hillary does hit and run campaigning, but NEVER talks to unscreened people who aren’t signed up supporters.

    Edwards’ people are just as looney as the Ron Paul people.

    The press coverage is pathetic, especially the Local Dubuque paper that rolls over for the Democrats.

  2. Tango says:

    The MSM continues to breathlessly proclaim it’s “neck and neck; a real footrace.” I remain almighty skeptical about that – and suspect there’s the media equivalent of rope-a-dope going on. [-x

  3. PCD says:

    Tango,

    The numbers for the Democrats will be manipulated by the Democrat County chairs, as they always do. In the Caucuses, for the candidate to get any votes in a county caucus, at least 15% of the caucusers have to support that candidate PUBLICLY!!!

  4. Lorica says:

    It is good to see Dennis bartering for the VP spot this early. I find it funny all this talk of change. They want to ignore the fact that we were attacked on 9/11, they want to tax the crap out of the citizens of this country, they want to pander to every country in the world in the name of diplomacy, they want ignore our problems with illegals, with drugs, with a lack of ethics, with …. You name the problem. But all that change sounds just like the Clinton era in the 90s. I am still waiting for the change. These are some hard times, and it is going to take someone staying level headed in the worst of times to fix what is wrong in this country. Well that or for all of these extremist left wing idiots to be abducted by UFOs like Dennis has been. I guess I can’t blame the aliens for returning him, sadly enough. – Lorica

  5. CZ says:

    Would Kucinich endorsing O’Bama be like Ron Paul endorsing McCain? :o)