Obama wins Wyoming caucuses (Roundup)

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Mar 9, 2008, 0:47 GMT

Washington - Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic caucuses in the western state of Wyoming on Saturday, in the latest contest in the hotly contested state-by-state battle to represent the party in November presidential elections. Obama had 59 per cent of the vote to opponent Hillary Clinton's 40 per cent, with 96 per cent of the state's caucus sites reporting results, CNN said. More than 7,500 party members had turned out for the party meetings in the generally Republican-leaning state, an unusually high turnout in the sparsely populated state of about 500,000 with nearly 60,000 Democrats. Only a few hundred Democrats turned out for the party's caucuses in 2004, but this year's long, close race between Clinton and Obama has generated interest in states that traditionally have had little say in determining the party's candidate. The battle between Obama, 46, and Clinton, 60, took an increasingly nasty tone in the run-up to caucuses in Wyoming on Saturday and primary voting on Tuesday in Mississippi, with each fighting for every crucial delegate needed to nab the nomination. Though just 12 delegates of the 2,205 needed to be named the party's candidate are to be determined in Saturday's caucus, both candidates had visited the state to appeal to Democrats. Clinton lags behind Obama in the delegate count needed to secure the nomination at the party's convention in Denver in August by less than 100 delegates, with 1,428 delegates compared to Obama's 1,527 after Wyoming's caucuses, according to CNN. CNN estimated that Obama would receive at least seven delegates from the caucuses and Clinton would receive at least four. Only centre-left Democrats caucused in Wyoming on Saturday; the centre-right Republicans held their contest there in January. Republican Senator John McCain sealed his grip on the nomination on Tuesday with primary wins in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island. Obama is also expected to win a contests Tuesday in Mississippi, after which the two candidates will have more than a month to prepare for the last big-state primary in delegate- rich Pennsylvania on April 22. With the Democratic race so close, there is pressure for repeat voting in two states whose primary results were dismissed by the national party because they disobeyed directives not to hold their contests in January - Florida and Michigan. Under Democratic rules, delegates are assigned proportional to the vote, meaning a candidate can lose the majority vote but still get a sizeable number of delegates.

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NoharnessMar 10th, 2008 - 00:46:36

Here's an idea, we could draft Vladamir Putin.

www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JA08Ag01.html

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To: Noharness.....Mar 10th, 2008 - 20:10:51

you are sounding more and more like SP4...the idiotic and venemous thought that purges you mind amazes me. SHUT UP!

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42% Want McCain to Answer 3:00 a.m. Phone CallMar 11th, 2008 - 01:01:19

42% Want McCain to Answer 3:00 a.m. Phone Call
Friday, March 07, 2008
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Before Hillary Clinton was declared the winner in Texas, most American voters had read, seen, or heard about her 3:00 a.m. telephone commercial. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 43% had seen at least part of the commercial which was played incessantly on news networks and other outlets for days. Another 16% had heard something about it and the overwhelming majority (81%) correctly identified Hillary Clinton as the candidate whose campaign ran the commercial (see the commercial).

The commercial was credited as one factor enabling Clinton to turn her campaign around in Texas last week. But, 42% of all voters said the person they’d most want to answer the phone was John McCain. Among all voters, 25% picked Clinton and another 25% named Obama as the person they’d want in the White House when a foreign policy crisis call arrived.

Among Democrats, 46% said they’d like Clinton to take that call while 36% named Obama.

Among Republicans, 79% named McCain while neither Democrat reached double digits.

Among unaffiliated voters, 39% said McCain would be their top choice to handle such a crisis. Twenty-seven percent (27%) of unaffiliateds said they thought Obama was the best to handle the call while 18% named Clinton.

Among men, 51% preferred McCain, 21% Obama, and 19% Clinton. Women were evenly divided—33% for McCain and 30% for each of the Democrats.

As for which of the three would be the worst to have in the White House when a foreign policy crisis broke out, 36% named Obama, 28% McCain, and 25% Clinton. Men were evenly divided as to whether Clinton or Obama would be the worst. Women were evenly divided as to whether Obama or McCain would be the worst.

An Obama foreign policy advisor said that neither Democrat was prepared to take that call (see video), a comment that John McCain was quite happy to endorse.

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