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Hillary Clinton picked up a key newspaper endorsement today in South Dakota, but Barack Obama keeps adding all-important superdelegates -- and moving closer to the Democratic nomination.
Texas Democratic Party chairman Boyd Richie and his wife Betty announced their support for Obama, who is now within 42 total delegates of clinching (at least until the magic number changes Saturday if the party's rules committee restores some delegates from Florida and Michigan).
The Associated Press is reporting that Richie had planned to wait until after the state party convention next week. Clinton narrowly won the Texas primary on March 4, but Obama won the simultaneous caucuses.
"I believe Senator Obama is the candidate who can best provide the leadership and change Texans desire," Richie said in a statement issued by the party. "Senator Obama has the skill and ability to unite Americans from all walks of life and put our country back on the right track."

There isn't anyone in politics or on this thread who isn't aware that both Obama and McCain will be trashed during the general election campaign. It goes with the territory, and I respect both candidates for dealing with it without complaining.

Why is Hillary losing the nomination?

This thread has been EERILY quiet today. I guess this is that "calm before the storm" -thing I've heard about, eh?

Full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_el_pr/obama_strategy

"Without a doubt, their understanding of the nominating process was one of the keys to their success," said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist not aligned with either candidate. "They understood the nuances of it and approached it at a strategic level that the Clinton campaign did not."

The key to their success is getting two entire entire states to be denied the right to vote.

How in heavens name can they expect us to support this guy? How in heavens name can they?

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

Relax and accept it. We're going to have the first black president and an extremely bright one to boot.

Senator Clinton's support among key parts of her base ­– women, whites, Easterners, Hispanics, adults with no college education – dropped below 50 percent in mid-May, according to a Gallup study released this week. Senator Obama, meanwhile, has so expanded his support that he logged a record 16-point lead over Clinton in polling last weekend among Democratic and left-leaning voters, according to Gallup.

If that lead holds, it would suggest that a growing number of Clinton supporters no longer see her as a viable candidate and are coalescing around Obama as the likely Democratic nominee. The findings indicate that Democrats may have an easier time uniting behind Obama than some exit polls suggest.

"It's possible we're transitioning from the nomination phase to the general election phase," says Jeffrey Jones, managing editor of the Gallup Poll. "Instead of necessarily evaluating Obama against Clinton, he's being evaluated against McCain and therefore he may be more appealing to some Democratic groups that have been Clinton supporters."

The only key group where support for Clinton still topped 51 percent – if by a hair – were women ages 50 and older. That figure remained largely unchanged in May even while Clinton's support among men ages 18 to 49 dropped nearly 10 points.

The racial and economic rifts highlighted by the news media after a primary are heat-of-the-moment snapshots derived from exit polls. Those surveys are taken as voters leave polling places and often follow weeks of intense campaign activity, which can stir passions and deepen divisions among voters.

National polls, however, sample a broad group of voters who may have adjusted their views as passions have cooled and the race has moved on to other states.

"With exit polls, you're looking at divisions in an actual contest that just happened," says Adam Berinsky, a polling expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The national poll is capturing the dynamics of the larger campaign."

On Tuesday, Clinton won 65 percent of the vote in Kentucky, to Obama's 30 percent, in a state whose Democrats mirrored West Virginia's: mainly white and conservative, with large numbers of lower-income, less-educated voters. Two-thirds of women voters backed Clinton, as did more than 7 in 10 whites.

In Oregon, with nearly all precincts reporting, Obama was winning 58 percent of the vote to Clinton's 42 percent. Oregonians voted by mail, but a telephone survey last week of people who said they had voted or definitely would vote found Obama drawing support from groups typically in Clinton's column.

Nearly 6 in 10 whites backed him. So did about half of women, Catholics, and voters with family incomes below $50,000. Oregon Democrats tend to be liberal, which could explain his stronger showing among those groups.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0522/p02s04-uspo.html