Posts tagged democratic nomination

• 12 May

  Blog: Veracifier

  Previewing tomorrow's W.Va primary

  It looks as though Hillary Clinton is well-positioned for a big win in Tuesday's West Virginia primary, according to polls. The latest poll coming out of the state has her up 36 percentage points over Barack Obama. With daunting math in front of her, and the media already crowning Obama, what signif

• 07 May

  Blog: Veracifier

  Clinton isn't dropping out--and she shouldn't

  As many predicted, yesterday was a split-decision, however, Obama ran up huge margins in N.C. and narrowly lost in Indiana, signaling a change in the race to practically everyone in the media. While the pundits have already called the race, Clinton vows to go on--and she still should. Right now, thi

• 26 Mar

  Blog: Veracifier

  Long Dem battle may not be so bad

  As some newspaper columnists and pundits keep hammering Hillary Clinton for staying in the race, Joan Walsh of Salon.com had another take. Based on Dan Balz's article today, Walsh argues that the long battle is actually helping democrats. How so? Walsh: "Where so many other pundits are wringing thei

• 12 Feb

  Blog: Veracifier

  The Problem with Superdelegates

   Today is the Potomac primary and many democrats are anxious that if the race is not decided in the next three weeks then in all likelihood the democratic nomination will not be decided before the Democratic Convention in August. This would be a particularly bad scenario as the democratic delegate