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...Americans" who voted in their primaries. In Florida, for instance, 1.75 million Democrats voted, which was the best Democratic turnout in state history. That sentiment has been echoed by Clinton supporter Florida senator Bill Nelson as well as the Clinton campaign itself, which won both crucial swing states and could pull even with, or possibly ahead of, Obama if its share of the delegates were being counted...
Some of the upcoming states to vote - including Wyoming on Saturday and Mississippi on March 11 - are likely to swing strongly for Obama, and certainly show no signs of being Clinton blowouts. The same goes for North Carolina on May 6 and Oregon...
...downside: Battling the press is a short-term tactic, not a long-term strategy. You blast away for weeks, the smoke settles...and the press is still there. After Clinton's strong showing Tuesday, the limelight is likely to swing back her way. She won't look as much like an abused underdog, and her coverage will feel less elegiac. Nothing dims the glow of sympathy like success...
...decide which one was more important to me, which was in more dire need of “change”: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that I don’t swing towards Hilary Clinton when I am feeling particularly feminine (or feminist, for that matter), and I don’t get excited about Barack Obama when indignant about the social marginalization of Asian Americans. Rather, my strongest pro-Clinton feeling surge at the end of policy debates like last night?...
...five-million member Change To Win coalition of unions - which includes the powerful Service Employees International and Teamsters unions - have all thrown their support behind Obama. The nods, and the tens of thousands of Ohio volunteers that come with them, could prove to be just enough to help swing the Buckeye State for Obama, and effectively sew up the nomination at the same time...