As voters in South Dakota and Montana finish voting tonight in the last democratic primary of the election, “Hillary Clinton: Will She or Won’t She?” remains the question of the hour.
According to the LA Times blog “Top of the Ticket”, the 3 factoids seem to point towards the later.

Hmmmm…. Stay tuned for further updates.

7:01pm Sixteen superdelegates have announced their support for candidate Barack Obama including former President Jimmy Carter. Obama now only needs 10 delegates to clinch the nomination.

9:05 According to TV networks and Reuters, Barack Obama is set to claim the democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election. He is merely 4 delegates short of the requisite 2,118 needed and is sure to pick these up from today’s primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The democratic primaries award delegates on a proportional basis.

9:15 In South Dakota, with 14% of the precincts reporting Hillary Clinton leads Obama 8,349 votes to 6,704.

9:45Clinton is the projected winner in South Dakota with 31% of the precincts reporting.

10:00 In her victory speech, Senator Clinton praised her opponent for an extraordinary race but noticeably failed to concede his overall win. She told the crowd “I will be making no decisions tonight.

10:25 Obama addressed supporters in St. Paul Minnesota stating, “Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.”

So, dear readers, the night is drawing to a close and lets face it, so is the democratic primary. The next few days are sure to be full of debates as to just when and how Clinton lost her front-runner status to a newcomer from Chicago but for now lets savor the moment.

Congrats Obama!!!

Bonjour!
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama beat Hilary Clinton by SEVEN votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses on Saturday. Each of the eight delegates from Guam gets ½ a vote at the convention. US citizens in Guam do not have the right to vote during the actual presidential election in November.

In related news, if Congressional democrats are any indicator Barack-Hilary fight won’t be over any time soon. According to Reuters, a total of 97 Democrats have endorsed Senator Obama while 98 have endorsed Senator Clinton. Eighty-six remain undecided. All members of Congress have super delegate status and as such will play a major role in the potentially painfully narrow delegate count during the DNC convention in August.

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Everybody wants to tell me how they feel about Hillary.

Super Tuesday has come and gone. In spite of the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton won the majority of the votes on that day, which usually cements the leading presidential candidates for both parties, her nomination as the Democratic Party candidate is not at all secure.

Obama has won eight straight primaries, and leads the race by a small but significant margin, aided by the fact that he continues to win over voter demographics that have been, in the past, more inclined to vote for Clinton.

This is, of course, fascinating - a close race, an important decision - and I’m more than willing to talk about the candidates’ policies, track records, voter bases, etc. with anyone who shows a vague interest in the subject. In fact, I keep getting suckered into conversations about it, only to face, again and again, the ugly truth: when it comes to Hillary C., her politics are the last thing that anyone wants to talk about.

Most of the folks who want to talk Hillary with me forgo any discussion of her career. They’d rather focus on her personality - which is, according to most of the folks in my vicinity, cold, harsh, ambitious, calculating, conniving, aggressive, angry, bitchy, and even (gasp!) lesbian.

God help me, I try to engage with these people. But at some point during the endless recitation of Hillary’s character flaws, my eyes glaze over and I tune out. Because, I swear, no matter what they say, the translation software in my brain supplies the same meaning over and over again: not a girl, not a girl, not a girl… Read More »