Obama to declare victory on May 20?
The Politico reports that a senior advisor to the BO campaign is telling them he will declare victory in two weeks:
George McGovern dumps Hillary, endorses Obama
Sheesh. Now that was fast.
NC/IN primaries: The morning after
The race to the nomination has just gotten a lot tougher for Hillary Clinton. In light of her trouncing in NC last night, and her squeaker win in IN (and has she really won IN?), her “popular vote” argument to the superdelegates looks less and less like a plausible one …. unless Florida and Michigan are included in the mix, and it looks like for Clinton and Co, that’s what it will boil down to:
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton speaks in Gastonia, NC – 5/2/08
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Rotary Centennial Pavilion, which is downtown Gastonia, NC. I guesstimated that about 500 were at the rally, but the Charlotte Observer’s Jim Morrill (who I saw there) wrote that the number was closer to 700.