Obama is the underdog because HilLIARy started running for this job 16 years ago - she had a tremendous head start and when he gets the nomination it will make many angry who assumed HilLIARy's coronation was inevitable - it will be an upset with David defeating Goliath.

YOU CAN'T SPIN THAT YOU HIL-LIAR-Y LOVERS AND YOU CAN'T SPIN THIS EITHER;

OBAMA WON MORE DELEGATES ON SUPER TUESDAY

OBAMA WON SUPER TUESDAY 2008 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE FACT THAT HE WON MORE STATES THAN HIL-LIAR-Y IS IRRELEVANT - DELEGATES ARE WHAT COUNT AND HE WON MORE OF WHAT COUNTS

THERE IS NO POSSIBLE SPIN FOR THAT

BUT HIL-LIAR-Y PEOPLE WILL TRY TO SPIN IN - IT IS IN THEIR NATURE TO FOLLOW THE LIES OF THE CLINTONS - MINDLESSLY

Obama appears to be correct. Politico.com is reporting that Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton. As often seems to be the case these days, the media have again rushed to judgment based on incomplete data. It's a minor league "Kerry wins the presidency" based on exit polls.

Real Clear Politics is reporting Clinton in the lead with 900 delegates to Obama's 824.
Many other web sites are reporting Obama in the lead.
Is this just a lag in updating the delegate counts?

"OBAM claims both victor, etc." What's he smoking? Clinton took more delegates and the wins by state were even at 11 each. Take off the rose colored glasses OBAM, it is not over by a long shot. Don't know where he is reading this information, but I got my info right out of the Tribune. Clinton took 712 delegates to OBAM's 645. with 11 states each. He can't even count or read. Do we really need him for President????

There's no safe place for the Republicans in 2008. Alabama did get more Republican voters than Democrats, but it went from R+26 to R+2 - and how many of those Huckabee voters will stay home if McCain is the nominee? (Speaking of Republican love for McCain - he couldn't get 50% of the votes from his own party in his home state.) Aside from Utah which was skewered by a huge vote for Romney, it was like this in every red state that had a primary yesterday.

There's a tsunami coming at the Repubs but they can't see the wave yet.

I think Hillary is the best candidate as someone who is from Israel who had a woman prime minster as Golda Meir I know the power of a lady.
now let’s take Hillary she has the power, she has the brain and she has the experience that obama doesn't have.
from obama until now, all I can hear is that he is bringing change and yes he can.
well, if this is the point why in your last 3 years in the senate you didn't change anything?
why you pointing about other people actions while you assume your actions are pure?
you disrespect the presidency while you attack one of your own Bill Clinton and it might proof me that you are not ready yet.
is Hillary by being the first woman president is less than you being the first African American president that her credentials don't bring change.
every change is welcome especially after these terrible 7 years.
but I can tell you that Hillary is semper paratus, always ready to take the challenge to lead and listen and trust the people and not only those who seat in Washington.
we need someone who would like to lead from the desire to take care of our people and treat them in respect as they give their vote to you.
and I truly believe that Hillary is more capable to follow those desires than obama.

Obama is lucky that the DNC opted to disenfranchise four million innocent democratic voters for an action taken by the Republican-controlled state legislature (i.e., moving the primary up a few days before February 5th). If Florida's 210 delegates were in play, Clinton would have the clear lead, as she clearly won Florida in a landslide, in an election with a huge turnout, even though Obama sent out his attack dog, John Kerry, the night of our primary to call it an illegitmate, "fabricated" election. I guess that is the kind of "new politics" of inclusion that Obama is so proud of putting forward. Seems more like the politics of exclusion to me.

Hi Edna, Michigan's and Florida's delegates don't count, per the previously agreed upon ground rules. Those delegates don't count because the local chapters of the DNC moved up their primaries. Every candidate, including Hillary and Obama, knew this going in. Might this be an instance of sour grapes?
An earlier precedent was the Bush-Gore elections, which we Dems lost--but "them's the rules" we agreed to play by.
Another example might be Nevada, where all parties agreed that caucuses could be held in casinos. Then, when the Culinary workers of America endorsed Obama, Hillary's camp cried foul.
Not so fast! We gotta play by the rules, we can't welch later on. Isn't it important that our politicians words be their bond?

RFB: check YOUR facts; Clinton and Obama did NOT win 11 states each. Obama did win more.

obama also won more pledged delegates on super tuesday 2008 - OBAMA IS THE WINNER AND HIL-LIAR-Y is the LOSER

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Obama arrogantly stated today “I have no doubt that I can get the people who vote for Senator Clinton. … It’s not clear that Senator Clinton can get all the people I’m getting,” This is the most racist and sexist remark thus far in this campaign. In other words, if Clinton loses, the majority of her women supporters will vote for me but If I lose, my supporters black people and men will not vote for her. It’s too bad because the reality is if Hillary made this statement everyone would be all over it like flies

Obama arrogantly stated today “I have no doubt that I can get the people who vote for Senator Clinton. … It’s not clear that Senator Clinton can get all the people I’m getting,” This is the most racist and sexist remark thus far in this campaign. In other words, if Clinton loses, the majority of her women supporters will vote for me but If I lose, my supporters black people and men will not vote for her. This is surely not a statement we expect from someone who runs on the platform of being, " The Uniter." It’s too bad because the reality is if Hillary made this statement everyone would be all over it like flies.

I live in Florida and a democrat. We didn't vote on changing the date. Our Republican government did that.
Who is going to fight for us? Why shouldn't our votes count?
If there were rules than the states should have not been allowed to change them.
Who loses, everyone in this nation when your vote does not count.

Sam, Jacque is correct that it was not the local (state) Democratic parties of Florida and Michigan that changed the primary dates, it was the Republican-controlled state legislatures. The DNC chose to punish four million innocent, long-suffering registered Florida Democrats by taking away ALL our delegates from the convention, thus rendering our election a "beauty contest". Don't you think this was just a TAD draconian, short-sighted and self-destructive for the DNC to choose to do? Think of what Florida Democrats have already lived through in 2000, did we really deserve to have our primary election votes in 2008 rendered meaningless? (Answer Key: NO, we certainly did not deserve that.) Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, et al. have done a fantastic job of circling up the firing squad. The Republicans are LOVING this one. And apparently, so is Barack Obama. "Yes we can!" win the nomination, he must be feeling, especially if we support the disenfranchisement of all the voters in two huge swing states--wu HUUUUUUUUU! He seems very unconcerned and downright sneery about our votes not counting. So, the heck with him, that's what this Florida Democrat says.