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Mississippi voters head to US presidential polls
Mar 11, 2008, 4:22 GMT
Washington - Senator Barack Obama was favoured to win Mississippi Democratic voters to his side later Tuesday in the drawn- out fight for his party's presidential nomination against Senator Hillary Clinton.
The southern state on the Gulf Coast is the next battleground after Obama won the Democratic caucuses in the western state of Wyoming on Saturday.
Obama had 61 per cent of the Wyoming vote to Clinton's 38 per cent, and the two candidates split the delegates proportionately, under Democratic Party rules.
In Mississippi, 33 of the 2,205 delegates needed to be named the party's candidate are up for grabs.
Clinton lags behind Obama in the delegate count needed to secure the nomination at the party's convention in Denver in August by 115 delegates. Clinton has 1,438 delegates compared to Obama's 1,553, according to CNN.
Republican Senator John McCain sealed his grip on the nomination last week and has turned his sights to raising money for his under- funded campaign.
After Mississippi, only five Democratic and six Republican state votes are left.
After a hectic campaign season, candidates will have six weeks to regroup before the last big-state primary in delegate- rich Pennsylvania on April 22. Polls there show Clinton, who grew up there as a young child, with an average lead of about 12 percentage points.
With the Democratic race so close, there is pressure for repeat voting in two states whose primary results were dismissed by the national party because they disobeyed directives not to hold their contests in January - Florida and Michigan.
Under Democratic rules, delegates are assigned proportional to the vote, meaning a candidate can lose the majority vote but still get a sizeable number of delegates.
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worst possible choice. vote for anybody else.
as intelligence is concerned, people from Mipissipissippiss and Canadapissada are off the scale. Thepissey are for the terrorpisseist Baracpissedk Hussaipissedn Obapisssssssedmma.
Poster above has demonstrated his own lack of intelligence,no use blaming Canadians for living up to his standards after offering such a display of ranting .
'....oh....heloo senatah Clinton! Yeees this is th president.....noooo...it ain't Dick disguisin his voice...ah think he's out shootin at th Sons o' Dixie hunt an hang em from a tree Club.....yeeees...ah heard abooout the colored fella....yeeees...he's shurr kickin ass....oh...sorry senatah, bad choice o words...nevah wuz much of an oratah....
'....n' senatah...quit y' screeemin.....yooou cin win this.....all ya gotta do is git t thit convention, pass out sum B's...booze, broads, an bucks....blackmail a few super delegates...yooou know...heck, put ol Bill and Sandy on it an yoou'll be heah bee foah y knoow it!...look senatah, ah knooow what ah'm talkin aboout..yeees stealin eee lections...at least ah think ah do....oh heck, he lost be cuz you an ol Bill pulled a cheeecanooo kid outa his bed in a swing state senatah.....ol Karl had nothin t do with it! Haell, senatah, he got a Nobel prhaze fer peace...ah knoow, confuses me too!, whin ya see ol Al, tell im we found a couple o brief cases unda his ol desk with chinese writin on em. We'll jes hold em fer him!'
'uh....nooo senatah...ah don't endorse democrats....well, ah don't think ah do anyways....besahdes...it'd probably be that colored fella anyways....best o luck ma'am...mah ree gards t president Clinton! Tell im he cin have thim salmon flavored ccce gahs back, ah only smoked a few...reel comfortin...curious whire he got em?...'
you flaming idiot racist, bigot who speak and write like that, you are the epitomy of bias..you are truly an ass.. I am insulted by your ignorance.
It's the character(s) that may be racist. I'm certainly not racist...insensitive perhaps, but not racist.
Stay tuned...
Blacks call themselves niggers, nigga's, and worse. They coined the phrase 'ho's' (whore's) and use it, generically, as a reference to a woman. People like you NEVER point that out.
Now, the first time someone steps outa line, he is branded a racist???
Breaking News!!! Major Political Scandal!!!
Large numbers of Republicans have been voting for Barack Obama in the DEMOCRATIC primaries, and caucuses. Because they feel he would be a weaker opponent against John McCain. And because they feel that a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket would be unbeatable.
Hillary Clinton has actually won by much larger margins than the vote totals showed. And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed. Her delegate count is actually much higher than it shows. And higher than Obama's. HILLARY CLINTON IS ALREADY THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!
As much as 30% of Obama's primary, and caucus votes are Republicans trying to choose the weakest democratic candidate for McCain to run against. These Republicans have been gaming the caucuses where it is easier to vote cheat. This is why Obama has not been able to win the BIG! states primaries. Even with Republican vote cheating help.
If Obama is the democratic nominee for the national election in November he will be slaughtered. Because the vote cheating help will suddenly evaporate. All of this vote fraud and republican manipulation has made Obama falsely look like a much stronger candidate than he really is.
The democratic party needs to fix this outrage. I suggest a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket now! All democrats need to throw all your support to Hillary Clinton. So you can end this outrage against YOU the voter, and against democracy.
Fortunately the Clinton's have been able to hold on against this fraudulent outrage with those repeated dramatic comebacks of Hillary Clinton's. Only the Clinton's are that resourceful, and strong. Hillary Clinton is your NOMINEE. They are the best I have ever seen.
You should be angry America. 'This is not a game' (Hillary Clinton)
Sincerely
jacksmith...
Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, who became the first woman to run as a major party’s candidate when she ran for vice president with Walter Mondale in 1984, believes that Clinton is not getting a fair shake in the media trial that is a modern-day presidential campaign. It has to do with gender, she believes.
And Obama, Ferraro told a newspaper in California recently, would not be in the position he is in today if he were “a white man’’ or a woman of any color.
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,' Ferraro said in an interview with the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Cal., in a column published Friday in advance of a speech in the area. “For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,' Ferraro told the newspaper. 'And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.'
weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/geraldine_ferraro _if_obama_was.html
The woman speaks the truth .........I say call yhem like you see them!!!
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DanMar 11th, 2008 - 05:24:24
I can see only too well the best replacement-proposal for Clinton's clever psychological ploy. For it's not enough to deny the idea, but replace it with something positive:
Obama-Edwards.
Edwards' forward-looking platform gives Obama something positive to counter the charge of vague change. At this point it is indeed time that he put some solid proposals before the public, and de-focus on 'answering' her all the time. She's going to have him going around in answering-circles in a few weeks.
Obama and Edwards, with the latter's platform would also blunt the future threat of Nader. After all, the latter has a point, and Obama is claiming change, change for the better. That's all Nader is asking for, and he'd probably bow out if Obama and the Dems showed that they were really serious about making your country better. Why not put substance to the rhetoric?
Speaking as a Canadian, I would not find such a pairing good for Canadian jobs OR business, but hey you guys, can't you see the obvious?
So yes.
Obama and Edwards. A young ticket, and solid progressive future for genuine reform.
--Dan
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