Obama picks up two delegates in Illinois Recount--makes up for Rush Limbaugh effect in Mississippi.

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Obama picks up two delegates in Illinois Recount--makes up for Rush Limbaugh effect in Mississippi.

by inallmyyears
Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 05:21:56 PM PDT

How's them apples?

inallmyyears's diary :: ::

Obama scored two extra delegates from Chicago's South side, where HRC failed to register the necessary 15% of the vote.

Yippee!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/13/201932/549/801/476166

Clinton Loses Two Illinois Delegates
Produced by Tony Arnold on Thursday, March 13, 2008

Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama officially picked up two more delegates today in his bid for the White House. They were awarded to him after the Illinois Board of Elections recalculated the delegates assigned after the state's primary.

In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, only a hundred or so delegates separate Obama from New York Senator Hillary Clinton. But the process for counting those delegates is complex, to say the least. Dan White is the executive director of the Illinois Board of Elections. He says there was a mix-up in awarding Clinton two delegates from Chicago's South Side.

WHITE: It was an oversight on our part. We did review this to make sure, but for some reason it was not calculated.

White says Clinton lost the delegates because she didn't receive the required 15 percent of the vote in two South Side congressional districts. The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to our calls for comment.

http://wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=19503

[Scurrilous]

1. Good news!

:thumbsup:

[Hawkowl]

2. HA!

I would be surprised if she picked up 5% of the vote on the good ole South Side.

[grantcart]

3. thanks

[quantass]

4. Well deserved.