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Obama with narrow lead in Guam caucuses
May 3, 2008, 19:56 GMT
Washington - Senator Barack Obama had a narrow lead over rival Hillary Clinton as Democratic caucus results came in from the tiny, US territory of Guam on Saturday.
With 79 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama had received 53 per cent of the vote to Clinton's 47 per cent, with fewer than 200 votes between the candidates, who are locked in a tight contest to secure their party's presidential nomination that has brought the unlikely political spotlight to the Pacific island.
The Democrats will formally choose a presidential candidate at their nominating convention in late August in Denver ahead of November general elections.
Guam will elect just four delegates with full voting rights to the convention, but each vote counts in the closest-ever nomination race. According to the website RealClearPolitics.com, Obama already has 1,738 delegates, to Clinton's 1,599. Both are still a long way off the 2,024 needed to secure the nomination.
More important than the number of delegates is the chance to flaunt a triumph over the losing rival - even if that triumph takes place more than 20 hours from Washington on an island with only 170,000 people.
Guam has little in common with the mainland, and its importance is almost exclusively strategic. The 550-square-kilometer island is home to US Navy and Air Force bases.
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so, 6% is narrow, 9% is huge -- hmmmm
I wonder how the real citizens of Guam would vote. Those who where displaced
by British and kept out by US.
Speaking of freedom and democracy...
They call it a narrow lead because in order to win, all Hillary has to do is keep things tight. So a narrow loss by 200 votes is still considered a win because she already has so many pledged delegates from Guam. They are not going to change their votes over a 6 point difference.
Abridged:
'If I ever reflect on how it is that I went from being a huge fan of Obama's, to a person who was excited about him and waiting to hear his plans, to wondering why I was not hearing anything tangible, to coming to terms with that fact he had no intention of clarifying anything, to coming to understand that he was a shallow pretender, to loathing everything his campaign represents - I will look no further than this email I received today from an Obamite:
let me guess with all respect,
-- you are below college education. thats for sure. right?
-- you have a working class background. thats also for sure. right?
-- you are not interested in politics. thats possible. right?
-- you prefer to eat cheese stakes at geno's. thats also possible. right?
-- your are just a bad bad-boy who likes to play mind games. maybe. right?
have a nice day
I loath these people. I will vote for McCain or no one if Obama gets the nomination. Not because every one of these assumptions is wrong about me. I have a BFA, come from a middle class background, am obsessed with politics, and am a bad boy but not a 'bad bad' boy. (A cheese 'stake' would be a bizarre and pointless item so I have no use for it, but I do like a cheese steak every now and again).
I will vote for McCain or not at all because of the dripping, oozing condescension that Obamites have for those without college degrees. Because of the high end, fraudulent contempt Obamites have for the working class. Because I do not want to sit through another 4 years of an administration populated by those who think 'cheese steak' consumers are less than equal partners in a democracy. I don't give a flying crap where the prigs land on the Left/Right scale.
By lying overtly and covertly about who he is Obama has poisoned this campaign and this country. He has used his considerable talents as an orator to fool the chattering classes and the media. He has used skillful oratory to blur his questionable past, rewrite our recent history, and open another gash in the wound of race in America. He has taken the difficult issue of race and turned it into a Benetton commercial and wonders why Pennsylvania isn't buying it. He breathlessly compares his grandmother to the putrid Wright and wonders why his grand 'speech' didn't take. He has taken the low road, while claiming the high one. He has lied about his intentions for the wars if elected. He has lied about his association with his church: Our Lady of Perpetual Resentment. He has plagiarized speeches, lied about both Clintons, lied about NAFTA, and run a dishonest, ruthless campaign. He has willfully associated with bigots, slumlords and terrorists to further his career. (Yes, William Ayres is a terrorist.) He has turned the idea of meritocracy on its head by elevating vagueness and self promotion to messianic heights. He has accomplished nothing of note in his public life and insults those who have. Finally, the clip below of the staged 'woman fainting' at his revival meetings is seemingly minor but goes to the heart of the Obama ideology: Illusion over reality.
He is a fraud.
www.liberalrapture.com/2008/05/poisonous-campaign-of-barack-obama.html
It`s OK yoo wite honkies thinkin ah ain`t got a chance in dis bid fow Preesident, but yoo ain`t seen nottin yet.
Yeh man, it got a bit tite in Gaum, but nohbody voted except two old geezers who ah payed well. Reeson is dem dam snakes, dey are all over the place, even poppin up owt of de votin boxes.
Ah bet dat ole bag Hillary don`t go anywere neer dat dump.
When ah gets in de Wite Ouse, ah`ll show de lot of ya, after ah gets rid of dem ole faggots paintins an puts up me own of Mohammed Ali an Martin Luther King.
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jdMay 3rd, 2008 - 20:13:05
so, 6% is narror, 9% is huge -- hmmmm
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