Ticket giveaway steals Bill Clinton's thunder

[kevinmc]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- It was an unexpected showdown of surrogates for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton here Wednesday, and it sure looked like Obama's representative whipped up the most excitement.

As former President Bill Clinton was extolling his wife's credentials, Obama's campaign office in Bloomington began giving away tickets to Sunday's Dave Matthews concert at Assembly Hall.

Jason Schechtman, 19, Deerfield, Ill., a student at IU, got his tickets about 8 p.m. after waiting more than three hours. He met folks in line who said they'd left the Clinton rally to wait for tickets.

"I was leaning toward Obama, but this sealed the deal for sure," he said. "The Obama campaign announced this right as (Bill Clinton) was about to speak, and it brought everyone from over there to over here.".....




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1. Ut Oh. Senator Obama had better stop making Hillary mad.

:rofl:

[kevinmc]

2. Asian Americans for Obama --

Asian Americans for Obama is a grassroots organization of concerned Asian Americans from all over the country who are working to help elect Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States . Though our coalition includes members of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, class and gender backgrounds, we are united in the belief that Senator Barack Obama is the best candidate to bring this country together and enact change for all Americans........

http://www.asianamericansforobama.com/




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3. LOL. They were lined up here at the Indianapolis headquarters about 6:30-7:00 am waiting

to get tickets (0ffice opened at 10am). They were going so fast that they quit giving out two per person within the first hour or so after they opened. (hubby persevered to get ours!!! woot!)

I hadn't heard about the Bloomington announcement, but it makes me wish I had driven out there to get my tickets instead.

Student Rebecca Waxman, a 21-year-old from St. Louis, said, "There are Obama signs all over campus, but the fact that Hillary's husband and daughter are coming out here makes it clear that they're trying to convince Bloomington."

Same thing in Indianapolis. I fall out of my chair laughing everytime I see someone say that Indiana is Clinton country. I live here, I work for Obama on the streets, I've been to rallies for both the candidates.

This IS Obama country baby!!!

[kevinmc]

4. Hillary Clinton suffered a blow Thursday

NBC News Channel



In the race for the White House, Barack Obama got a boost and Hillary Clinton suffered a blow Thursday from the nation's top ranking democrat, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi said that her party's super delegates must not overturn the democrat's popular vote.

Pelosi's been dropping hints about how she and her fellow super delegates ought to vote.

On Thursday she made it crystal clear.

Which is bad news for Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton still hopes to pass Barack Obama and win the most democratic primary votes.

But she says she deserves the votes of super delegates even if she falls short.

Clinton said, "The whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Senator McCain."

Should the nearly 800 super delegates, who'll cast the key votes at the democratic convention, decide based on electability, experience,
Who won their state or vote their personal preference?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "You're not asking me but I’m telling you."

The answer, said house speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday, is none of the above. It's who wins the national popular vote.

"It will do great harm to the democratic party if it is perceived that the super delegates overturn the will of the people," said Pelosi.


So far Barack Obama's won some 13 million four hundred thousand popular votes.

Clinton just over 12 million 7 hundred thousand.

And Obama says that's what should matter.

"Most of the super delegates who have not yet have decided I think will recognize we've earned this nomination," said Obama

Obama's getting the contributions he needs to keep his lead. His March number's out: 40 million dollars.

Clinton's March number is twenty million dollars.

But she vows to fight on, with less money and, so far, less of the primary season democratic vote.

The popular vote that the nation's top democrat speaker Nancy Pelosi now insists the democratic nominee must win.


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5. Clinton Camp Feels Spent, and Outspent

Washington Post



Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a second straight day holding fundraisers in California yesterday as part of an all-out effort to keep pace with the record amounts of money raised by Sen. Barack Obama, whose campaign announced that it pulled in $40 million in March, double Clinton's $20 million take.

While her Democratic presidential rival took the day off in Chicago, Clinton held two fundraisers in Los Angeles and planned to raise money in New Mexico this weekend. She will leave the campaign trail on Wednesday to attend an Elton John concert in New York organized with a goal to raise $2 million.

In an attempt to further tap the online donor market that has largely funded Obama's effort, Clinton plans to launch a new Internet program today that lets supporters choose where their money will go, much as wedding guests select gifts from a registry. Instead of china and crystal, users can purchase campaign signs, van rentals, airtime on radio stations and doorknob advertisements.

Even Clinton's most energetic boosters expressed exhaustion by the call to raise more money. "I'll tell you, after a year of doing this, it's like asking me to run a half-marathon after I've run a marathon," said Mark A. Aronchick, a co-chairman of Clinton's Pennsylvania campaign, who is organizing five fundraisers over the next eight days.

Clinton, too, had a hint of resignation in her answer to reporters asking whether she is now being outspent "two to one" by Obama. "Sometimes three to one, four to one, five to one," she said with a laugh. "I'm getting used to being outspent."

Obama's immense cash flow -- he has raised more than $240 million to Clinton's $175 million -- allows him to compete as aggressively in the final primary contests as he did in the early days of the race. He is vastly outspending Clinton in Pennsylvania, with $3 million in television and radio ads, including a Spanish-language TV ad airing in the Philadelphia area, compared with an estimated $500,000 that Clinton is spending in the state, which will hold its primary on April 22.......






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6. get ready for charges of vote-buying ...

If Obama were a Republican, this would be considered perfectly legal ... however, since Obama is a Dem ... suddenly the media will be calling for the Feds to investigate this ...

[kevinmc]

7. Former Romney backer warns McCain not to pick him for VP

(CNN) – Conservative leader Paul Weyrich – who endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid – has signed on to an open letter from more than two dozen movement activists to John McCain warning him not to select the former Massachusetts governor as his VP pick if he expects their support.

"If Governor Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party and either stay away from the polls this November or only vote down the ticket,” they write in a message posted online by a political action committee called “Government is Not God.”

The letter – topped by the headline “NO Mitt” — will run as a print ad in cities visited by McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, beginning with his Arizona stop this weekend.

The group includes supporters of Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee like activists Gary Glenn and Janet Folger, along with conservatives who have long criticized Romney for his past stands on issues like abortion.

Weyrich endorsed Huckabee after Romney left the race. The activist’s opposition to the former governor marks a complete reversal from his position as recently as last month, when he told the National Journal that McCain was unlikely to select Romney as his running mate – but that he should.

"If he selects somebody bad from our point of view, it's going to be very difficult," he told the magazine. "It will reinforce prejudice against him. If he selects somebody pretty good, it'll be moderately helpful…. It would help if he selected Mitt Romney, but he won't."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/04/former-romney-backer-warns-mccain-not-to-pick-him-for-vp/

[AX10]

8. As we all know..

Obama's young supporters don't take this thing seriously.