Obama’s Nightmare Week nets him 12 Delegates
Posted on March 10, 2008
Filed Under Democratic Primary
It seems that Obama has shaken off the brief slump that had his national numbers dropping below Clinton’s through last week. Gallup released an updated poll showing his numbers back to where they were prior to March 4. That should only improve further tomorrow, as Barack should win Mississippi handily. He currently leads there 54-38.  More on Obama’s supposed nightmare week:  We’ve already argued that Obama was the real winner in Texas, but also underreported was the frontrunner picking up 12 Super Delegates to Clinton’s 4 last week. Couple this with the 4 delegates he picked up once California’s vote was certified (and the resultant Clinton loss of 4), and Obama actually netted 12 delegates during arguably his worst week of the campaign. Not bad. A couple more bad weeks like that and we’ll be done with Hillary for good.  And more on the Super Delegates:  It occurred to me while watching Ed Rendell on Meet the Press that people are missing the point if the believe the Supers wouldn’t dare override the will of the people and hand this thing to Clinton. The problem with that theory is that it views the Super Delegates as a monolithic voting bloc, which it is not. You’ve already seen the individual SD’s like Rendell rationalize in every which way so that their chosen candidate gets the job and they get their ambassadorship or cabinet post. They don’t seem to have their eye on the long-term.  Can anyone really imagine the Rendells and McAuliffes of the world bypassing Clinton because of some trivial matter like will of the people?  John Corzine was on Hardball tonight and informed Chris Matthews that if Hillary can eke out the popular vote that would be enough to persuade him to throw his vote her way. Does anybody really think they are not going to find a back door into this nomination? The problem with this whole popular vote concept is that the caucus states don’t count votes the same way the primary votes do, thus the states where Obama is strong the vote will be severely undercounted. Hillary can win the popular vote, but it won’t really mean anything, not that it will matter much to her or her acolytes. Â
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