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...Standing in Dubuque Precinct 14 on caucus night, I had our expected turnout and yield in my hand. Our voters had shown up, but Obama supporters kept streaming in. I couldn’t do much but count. Obama and Clinton each had 63 supporters in the room, and turnout was far beyond our expectations. It didn’t bode well for the night...
...more votes than any primary candidate in history," Clinton declared. The swing states that will determine the general election belong to her. It's a debatable point-but not, ultimately, germane, because the nomination is about delegates, and Clinton made the strategic decision to give up a lot of caucus-state delegates without much of a fight. Say nay or say yea-the fact is, Obama buried her in the places she neglected to contest seriously...
Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Annual Commencement Dinner. Cocktails at 5, followed by dinner and guest speaker Brian Graden, M.B.A. ’89, president of Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Group, and Logo, MTV’s LGBT network. Lowell House. Reservations required for the dinner. For further details, visit http://hglc.org/dinner.html.
Though Jones leaned on the black caucus to get behind Obama, many saw him as an undeserving outsider who jumped the line, who wore ambition on his sleeve. Some were "very upset" to see Jones hand important bills to Obama instead of spreading out the goodies to other Democrats, said Delmarie Cobb, a black Democratic consultant who supports Hillary Clinton for President. Jones was less successful outside Springfield. Some old-line black politicians in Chicago backed Hynes out of loyalty to his father. Rush endorsed Hull...
...underestimated the caucus states While Clinton based her strategy on the big contests, she seemed to virtually overlook states like Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, which choose their delegates through caucuses. She had a reason: the Clintons decided, says an adviser, that "caucus states were not really their thing." Her core supporters - women, the elderly, those with blue-collar jobs - were less likely to be able to commit an evening of the week, as the process requires. But it was a little like unilateral disarmament in states worth 12% of the pledged delegates. Indeed, it was in the caucus states that...