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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 11:27 AM
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SuperDelegate endorses Obama
Wisconsin Superdelegate Endorses Barack Obama for President

Melissa Schroeder Cites Obama’s Electability

Chicago, IL – Today Wisconsin superdelegate Melissa Schroeder endorsed Barack Obama for president, citing his unique ability to stand up to the special interests and unite all Americans to bring about real, meaningful change.

Melissa Schroeder said: “After much consideration, I have decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama. My decision came down to electability and who I felt would do a better job of unifying this country for a common purpose. Obama’s message of hope and change has touched millions of voters in a way that I haven’t seen since the late 1960’s. People from every walk of life, young and the not so young, Democrats, Independents and some Republicans, are all rallying around a belief that change can happen if we want it bad enough. With Obama as our nominee, I am confident that this November we will increase our majority in the House and Senate and elect a Democrat to the White House.”

Melissa Schroeder is Wisconsin’s 7th District Democratic Party Secretary.


Since Super Tuesday on Feb 5th 80% of the superdelegates endorsing a candidate have endorsed Sen. Obama



Obama's magic number for nomination is now 426

Clinton's magic number for nomination is 532
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 11:29 AM
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1. Keep Them Coming!
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 12:48 PM
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4. Ok let me go out and see if I can find another one lol
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 11:51 AM
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2. Superdelegates and voters
who has more on the ball? Who is more responsible and what are their judgment criteria? Which listens most closely to the traitorous MSM?

Besides foolishly having their status as an extra electoral college tack on swell to such unplanned proportions, they don't know what to do with their role. of course, these people would mainly pass themselves off as both representatives of the people and leaders. What they would rather do is not face the incompetent and undemocratic horrors of DLC and other Third Way big money meltdowns. They would especially not like to face the responsibility their "super" status has given them. Were they not such timid, partly incompetent leaders they would have seized upon the earlier opportunities to rein in the desperate HRC campaign from a lose at all cost strategy. There are a few simple major forms of what some might call interfering blackmail, safely pre-convention, safely popular. They had ONE such open attempt that fell over like their usual cardboard one dimensional approach. That if Obama won Ohio they would front a token bloc sponsorship of Obama.

Well the voters are perfectly happy to get their say all the way to the convention. This must make the superdelegates visibly ill because then it will be their turn. Like most non-voting Americans they might prefer to stay at home.

At the very very least, as pols and party loyalists or anything concerned about winning for any reason, they could use the hard stuff to rein in the Rove-lite stuff and head off media interference which is cavorting like dolphins in the vast expanse of their oceanic silence. They would have to caucus together, send a message, an ultimatum, a determination that as time advances might indeed be that the campaign is just plain over. In their silence HRC advocates are making the case that Obama is eliminated by other means and HRC ascendant by other means. This could continue retreating toward a universal Dem party leadership defeat, ironically at the time as the people ranks are swelling toward a powerful mass voice. A responsible, open and decisive one. Those noble superdelegates who think their odd circumstance demands indecisive purity or loyalty to doom will have such noble notions stripped away at last. The cover is shredding with passing time. A big reason that this goes on like this is that too many superdelegates, like any dedicated supporters, feel paralysed by the fact it is their candidate that needs the talking to and they are caught in the middle. Maybe for a change they get a bit of what it is like to be ordinary supporters and voters.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 11:55 AM
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3. Good choice but superdelegates still suck (not the person but the idea)
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