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Obama now leads among super delegates.
By Paul Gleiser | May 9, 2008
The last area in which Hillary Clinton could claim a lead vanished today.
With one defection and one announcement, Obama has moved into the lead among the party’s super delegates.
Click here to read the story from ABC News.
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A bad night for Hillary Clinton.
By Paul Gleiser | May 7, 2008
The Tuesday, May 6 primaries in North Carolina and Indiana effectively ended the race for the Democratic nomination for president.
Barack Obama scored huge win in North Carolina, beating Hillary Clinton by a 56% to 45% margin.
In Indiana, where some polls predicted that Clinton would win by a double-digit margin, the final tally came in at 51% to 49% in favor of Clinton, with only 22,000 votes out of 1.5 million cast separating the two candidates.
It was a night of very bad news for the Clinton campaign. But the long, bitter campaign for the Democratic nomination is effectively over. While it is likely that Hillary Clinton will soldier on through West Virginia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and Oregon, the fact is that the Democratic super-delegates will begin to declare for Obama in large numbers and Obama will be able to focus on McCain and begin campaigning as the presumptive nominee.
ABC political consultant Matthew Dowd reports. Click here to listen.
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright in context.
By Paul Gleiser | April 29, 2008
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright continues to be a problem for the Obama campaign. When news of Wright’s virulently anti-American, anti-white sermons first surfaced, many said that the clips that were repeatedly played were “taken out of context.”
Earlier this week, the Rev. Wright addressed the Detroit chapter of the NAACP. Any doubts as to context were removed in that speech.
The bulk of his speech appears in two parts below.
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