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Audacity of Truth
AP says Obama has the delegates he needs
Even before the results/pledged delegates come in from South Dakota and Montana?
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.
Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.
Ben Smith says be skeptical:
Not to be a stickler here, but that’s not how this has been working, either in our count or in in the Obama campaign’s. The commitments that matter are the ones that are public. So the story is trivial: I think you could probably get virtually all of the superdelegates at this point to privately acknowledge that they’ll vote for Obama at the convention.
So as far as the (academic) matter of deciding when exactly Obama gets the majority, I’m going to stick with named supporters. Our count, and the Obama campaign’s, leave him about 30 shy.
There are 31 pledged delegates total at stake tonight in both the SD and MT primaries combined. Obama should get at least half, which would leave him roughly 15 shy, which he will make up for in superdelegates in very short order.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a Clinton supporter, is saying it’s time to end this. Will Hillary listen?
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Stick the fork in Clinton, she’s done.
And Fox News now has 2,123 delegates in Obama’s corner.
Looks like an early night of drinking. My live-blog started when Neil Cavuto broke the news just before 5 pm your time.
On a related topic: Cokie and Steve Roberts claim that sexism did in Hilly the Hun.
The article is interesting for the attempt by the authors to suggest that sexism in “the media” was behind the Hun’s demise (what – the Republicans’ Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy didn’t do it?!).
The ocean of self-pity that the Roberts are wallowing in for their now-vanquished candidate is nothing new – claiming sacred and holy victimhood at the hands of knuckle-dragging bigots is a requirement for seeking higher political office among Democrats. But what is new is the attempt to blame the media for the Hun’s failures. Have Cokie and Steve forgotten the yeoman’s efforts by MSM journalists to keep William Jefferson Clinton in the White House and out of jail? Have they forgotten how many times the Misogynist in Chief’s hatchet men went after women who dared to complain about being raped or sexually harassed – with the media’s approval and assistance? Where was this newfound concern over sexism back then?
At any rate, if the Roberts are worried about “sexism” they can start by looking at the Democrat Party itself. Have they read some of the stuff on DailyKos?