Posts tagged with 'democratic_nomination'

Previewing tomorrow's W.Va primary

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MAY 12 2008 03:43 PM | PERMALINK

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 significance might tomorrow's contest have on the nomination battle? CNN's Bill Schneider writes that a huge win could send a message to superdelegates that a lot Dems are not ready to join team Obama. It...
Clinton isn't dropping out--and she shouldn't

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MAY 07 2008 02:08 PM | PERMALINK

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, this is a win-win situation for her.

If she loses, as many suspect, she will have the leverage to bargain with Obama to absorb her campaign debt. Furthermore, longer this goes on, (and there's only a...
Long Dem battle may not be so bad

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 26 2008 04:08 PM | PERMALINK

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 their hands and suggesting that the increasingly nasty battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is only helping John McCain, Balz examines primary turnout and voter registration numbers and finds a...
The Problem with Superdelegates

POSTED BY MALCOLM RAY, FEBRUARY 12 2008 03:38 PM | PERMALINK

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 system gives party leaders and activists a prominent (but usually symbolic role) in deciding the nominee. As we have come to learn in the past few weeks, around 800 of these “superdelegates” will...