A new Rasmussen Reports survey in North Carolina finds Sen. Barack Obama crushing Sen. Hillary Clinton, 51% to 37%.
“The demographic results in North Carolina are similar to the dynamics
seen nationally and in most primaries — Clinton leads by fifteen points
among White voters while Obama leads 80% to 11% among
African-Americans. Clinton does well among White Women and older voters
while Obama leads among those under 65.”
Life in Armenia posts an account and photographs from last week's torchlight procession held on the eve of the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The blog says that the march brought a much needed sense of unity to Armenia after the recent post-election unrest that left at least ten people dead.
Because Sen. Barack Obama spoke to reporters after a Florida fundraiser in September 2007 and some of his cable advertising reached Florida homes, Craig Crawford argues that DNC rules “strictly speaking” would give Sen. Hillary Clinton half the delegates she won in Florida’s renegade primary.
John Heilemann: “What the past two months have shown beyond doubt is that Obama’s campaign is in desperate need of a serious midcourse retooling — in particular, a sharper economic message, delivered from a brawler’s stance, in order to give those blue-collar voters who’ve sided with Clinton a bedrock reason to stay in the Democratic column and not flee to McCain, as many now threaten to do. Even more important, though, the time has come for Obama to move beyond his airy mantra of post-partisan transformation. The polarization that plagues our politics is an awful thing, no doubt. But the irony is that before Obama can do anything to change it, he needs to win. And winning will require him to channel the very partisan furies–the anger at Bush, the ire toward the Republicans, the palpable yearning for a fight–that he eventually hopes to tame.”
Rep. Ben Chandler (D-KY), “who carries a
famous Kentucky political name,” will endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president, the AP reports.
“The
endorsement would give Obama the support of Kentucky’s two Democratic
congressmen - who represent the state’s most urban areas - leading into
the state’s May 20 primary.
While most of the world’s lurid, solicitous attention was directed at the arch of Miley Cyrus’s exposed back, I found myself more intrigued by the shot of her cradled against her hairswept dude of a dad, country singer Billy Ray…
“If Obama wins both of those states on the sixth of May, I don’t see how as a practical matter he doesn’t have it.”
– 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Mike Dukakais, quoted by the New York Observer.
Sen. Hillary Clinton accepted a Montana newspaper
publisher’s “invitation to participate in a Lincoln-Douglas debate in
Missoula, while her Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama’s
campaign said it was evaluating the offer,” the Billings Gazette reports.
“Lincoln-Douglas
debates don’t have moderators and are considered to be more
freewheeling. Each candidate gets an allotment of time, followed by the
other candidate and then the first person goes again”
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Barack Obama “is heavily favored to win what will be
the final and decisive contest for the Democratic presidential
nomination — the ‘invisible primary’ for the convention votes of party
leaders.”
“The reasons say a lot about these superdelegates’ calculations for the November elections — the presidential one, or their own.”
Meanwhile, Charlie Cook notes that “almost half” of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “delegate advantage she netted against Obama in Pennsylvania was offset by losses of superdelegates the same week.”
If Sen. Hillary Clinton wins Indiana’s May 6 Democratic primary, “the votes of white women may be a huge reason why,” according to the Indianapolis Star.
“To a large extent, women are Clinton’s most ardent supporters and have
paved her way to victories in other states. That consistent pattern of
support is why both campaigns are reaching out to Indiana’s women.”
However, with Indiana holding an “open primary” in which all registered voters are eligible to vote int he Democratic primary, USA Today notes both campaigns are “looking even in the most-Republican corners” of the state for votes.
