Virginia Superdelegates: Act Now! We, the above signed Virginia Democratic Chairs, urge you to act now to publicly commit to vote for Barack Obama for president at the Democratic National Convention. Here's why:
We are a large group of Virginia Democratic Chairs who represent some of Virginia's largest jurisdictions, as well as many other rural, suburban, and urban localities throughout the commonwealth. Taken together, the jurisdictions we represent contributed 50.43 percent of the Democratic vote in Virginia's February 12, 2008, presidential primary.
We have done our homework on the national Democratic delegate math. Our homework tells us that there is no reasonably plausible scenario in which Hillary Clinton can substantially narrow the pledged delegate gap with Barack Obama between now and the end of the presidential primary season.
The only way in which Hillary Clinton could secure the Democratic nomination is if you were to overturn the will of both the commonwealth of Virginia's and the nation's elected pledged delegates. Continuing such a campaign until our Democratic National Convention in August will:
-Create major divisions within our party through August with little time to heal before the general election;
-Dishearten newcomers to the party by creating the impression that the important party decisions are controlled by longtime party insiders;
-Waste tens of millions of dollars battling each other which should be focused on John McCain;
-Distract media attention from focusing upon our true objective, beating John McCain.
Virginia spoke. Barack Obama won Virginia by 281,054 votes _ a 28.19 percentage point margin over Hillary Clinton. Democrats in other states have also spoken. The Democratic Party is and has always been the party of the people and to fulfill that legacy it should be just that _ democratic.
For the past eight years, our party has found new and better ways to lose elections that we should have won. This year we should be united in our effort to defeat our Republican opponents. Your role as superdelegates is to lead and show the wisdom and judgment to do what is right for our Party. We urge you to act _ now.
Please lead us out of the party-rending path down which we are headed. Act now; endorse Barack Obama for president today, and let's win on November 4!
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