I believe Superdelegates are Obama's plan to offset loses in WV and KY

wndycty

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Tue May-13-08 06:46 AM
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I believe Superdelegates are Obama's plan to offset loses in WV and KY

Edited on Tue May-13-08 06:57 AM by wndycty

The Key for Obama is to end each week (on Tuesday) closer and closer to his way to the nomination. If you look at the volume of SD's who have broken is way since IN and NC you see momentum in both overall and pledged delegate count. Whatever the total delegate count is tonight (depending on which media outlet you are depending on) I believe that Obama will be even closer at the end of the day than he is right now.

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rox63

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Tue May-13-08 07:03 AM
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1. WV has a whole 28 delegates

Even if Clinton got 100% of the WV vote, Obama would still have a 100+ lead in pledged delegates. And we all know Obama will get at least a few delegates out of WV. My prediction is that he'll get at least 10 of the 28.

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Youphemism

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Tue May-13-08 07:04 AM
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2. You're exactly correct

Obama seems to not only gain superdelegates on a near 10-1 scale since Super Tuesday, but he seems to be masterfully rolling them out at key times.

After the last Primaries, he met with the superdelegates in Washington and has rolled out enough of them to offset any possible WV gains Hillary might make. Not only that, they've announced their support on successive days rather than all at once, to keep Obama on top of the news cycle during the week.

My bet is there are a few more waiting until 1-2 days after the WV primary to announce their support, and squelch that "momentum" crap we're bound to be hearing again shortly.

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wndycty

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Tue May-13-08 10:02 AM
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3. It looks that way, he has picked up 4 so far today

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