Obama campaign posts delegate countdown on website

[Khaotic]

Jedreport.com, April 30, 2008
Obama's new delegate countdown
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/obama-campaig-1.html

The Obama campaign just posted a new delegate tracker on BarackObama.com and it will count down the delegates until he secures the nomination. It's something you won't see on HillaryClinton.com, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.



According to the tracker, Obama needs just 288 more delegates to secure the nomination. That works out to 40% of the uncommitted delegates. Also, given that he's a lock to get at least 200 more pledged delegates, it means he really only needs 88 of the undeclared superdelegates -- just under 30%.

Bottom-line is that barring a catastrophic collapse, Barack Obama's delegate math is just unbeatable. Of course, the media doesn't want to tell you that story -- if people stopped paying attention to the primary campaign, their ratings would suffer.

As for me, all I know is that I barely watch news on television any more -- I just DVR the evening broadcasts and sometimes check them out. (And until the mainstream news blogs start covering the general, I won't be spending much time on them either.) I still do watch is Countdown, though.

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GOBAMA!!!!

[YEM]

1. "He was my spiritual advisor, before he wasn't my spiritual advisor."

[cali]

9. lol. lame.

what has that got to do with the delegate count?

[SoonerPride]

28. Did ignore say something else stupid or hateful?

I'm just shocked.

[Avalux]

12. Don't be bitter about Obama.

When he's the nominee, I hope you find a way to support him.

[Greyskye]

13. That all 'ya got?

Yeah, I thought so. :rofl:

[thoughtcrime1984]

14. Vote for McCain then and get out of here.

That is your other option.

[Eurobabe]

15. Time for you to go away. CyaBai!

[AllentownJake]

16. No response

to OP I see.

[Adelante]

24. Poor babies

Whatever happened to Rezko? :cry:

[Eurobabe]

2. Yea Barack!!

GOBAMA!

:woohoo:

[cali]

3. Great move!

GOBAMA and all that stuff.

[DerekJ]

4. Where is that on his site?!!

[livetohike]

7. It's on the home page

www.barackobama.com

[Window]

5. K/R for truth.

:kick:

[Pirate Smile]

I noticed that last night. I wasn't sure how long it had been there.

[beachmom]

6. :) :) K&R

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Everybody's focused on Clinton's superdelegate lead.

Is it 19? 20? 21? 20? 19? 20?

Well with five or six delegates coming out per day, the lead isn't nearly as important as how quickly the pool's running dry.

[PseudoIntellect]

37. Good point; as the "pool runs dry" and ratios of SD endorsements continue to be Obama-favored,

Hill's % needed of uncommitted superdelegates to capture the nomination will soon skyrocket. It will be something that cannot be ignored.

[BenDavid]

10. I have to ask this question and hopefully folks will look deep

before answering. If our choices are doing the right thing and losing with Obama because fair is fair OR doing the wrong thing and winning with fewer-delegates Hillary, what should super-delegates do?

Well you know my answer and maybe with major flawed candidate as obama we need to do the wrong thing and make it right and move forward and win in november.

[Avalux]

17. Please give me evidence to show Obama is majorly flawed?

Nothing has happened over the course of this campaign to support your statement. There is absolutely no reason why the nomination should be handed to fewer-delegate Hillary. NONE.

[democrattotheend]

21. He is certainly no more flawed than Hillary

Who has years of baggage that the Republicans can't wait to dredge up. Just because it's old does not mean it won't resonate. I'm 24 and I don't remember all of the Clinton scandals...it's appalling to learn about how much corruption there was.

[John Q. Citizen]

32. I'm positive you know more about politics than our elected Dem officials. That's why you are here

instead of in elected office, or working as staff for someone in elected office.

It makes sooo much sense when you think about it.

All those super delegates going to Obama at multiples of those going to Clinton just don't have access to the high quality political information you do.

While we get to benefit at DU from your excellent insights and analysis, it seems a waste somehow. Shouldn't you be out saving the super delegates from themselves? And the party from itself?

Oh, when will we learn to listen to you?

[kmsarvis]

34. Easy answer.......

If the SDs hand the nomination to Clinton alot of African-Americans and young voters simply wont turnout to vote for her.....Clintons negatives are already very high and she cant afford to lose any of the democratic base for the GE .So, to answer your question, if we do the "wrong thing" and go with Hillary we are probably more likely to lose in November...The SDs know this.

[Bigleaf]

11. Well, I think Obama should also link to this video on the same page as the delegate tracker:

It is time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05OsOUin0w

[StevieM]

18. I see he is still lying about having won Nevada (eom)

[democrattotheend]

20. He won more delegates in Nevada

[StevieM]

23. It is still considered a loss and there is previous precedent for that. Obama's claims to victory

raise serious questions about his fitness for command.

Steve

[AllentownJake]

30. LOL

I keep you off ignore for amusement.

[WA98296]

19. Busy Day, number now at 285!

[myrna minx]

22. So close!

[Hope And Change]

25. K & R!

:kick:

[DemsUnited]

26. love it!

thanks for posting.

[futureliveshere]

27. Cool.. I saw this too..K&R

[quantass]

29. cool

[ginnyinWI]

31. Something I don't understand about the math--

Obama's got 1740 delegates and Hillary's got 1600. Add those to the remaining available delegates, 285 and you get a grand total of 3,625. Half of that number is 1,812.5 Subtract Obama's delegates from that number and you get 72. So why does it say he needs 134 to have the majority of delegates? Something is missing somewhere, or I'm missing it.

[FlaGranny]

33. I saw that countdown. Regarding the news,

the best thing to do is watch BBC news, if you can get it. It's like the news used to be. They just give you the news - ALL the news from all over the world and as much as they can fit into 1 hour. It makes me nostalgic for the "good old days" of American news.

[CatsDogsBabies]

35. It's exciting ...

It's happening!

Over the weekend when all this Wright hype was going on, wasn't Obama starting his 50-state strategy? Things are in gear for the GE.

And, when it comes down to it, I think most people know that Obama is more electable (over McCain) than HRC. When you stack up HRC's negatives and compare them to Obama's, HRC's negatives are far greater and far more deep seated than Obama's negatives. The second wave of the Rev. Wright hype is already over. The HRC/McCain and Obama/McCain polls are irrelevant. McCain isn't campaigning against HRC - if he were we would be seeing tons and tons and tons and tons of negative stuff against Clinton. Once this happened, I am sure we would see a lot of differences in these polls. I think these GE polls are essentially meaningless at this point.

And, I think people are mistaken if they think Obama won't be tough against McCain. Obama is being very restrained against HRC because Obama is a decent person, he cares for the Democratic party (I say this as an Independent myself) and he is not going to campaign against a Democratic candidate the same way he will campaign against Repubilican one.

I think Obama is going to be really tough against McCain, not in the little quips, snarky way, but really tough.

[tblue37]

36. Chris Matthews, who like a broken clock is occasionally accurate,

said before the PA primary that the race is over, but admits that the MSM keeps deliberately misleading people into believing Hillary has a chance simply because they want a horse race:

Chris Matthew started off the Pennsylvania primary coverage with a bang tonight. Shortly after 6, seated by co-anchor Keith Olbermann, Matthews called the primary, and thus his coverage tonight, basically moot. "This contest is essentially over," he proclaims to Keith. "Barack Obama is going to win the most elected delegates."

He went on to say of the media, "Trying to keep this game going, we've created the delusion that somehow this race is still open."

Here is a link to the video and an article about it on huffingtonpost.com:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/22/chris-matthews-the-media_n_98086.html

BTW, Matthews also admitted once that the media are McCain's real constituency and that they prop him up becuase they like him so much.