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...today's confessional era, reporters disclose private matters ranging from marriage to stock ownership. Everything except voting. Some refuse to vote at all-like Washington Post editor Len Downie, who told NPR, "I didn't want to take a position, even in my own mind" on elections. (To which I say, Anyone who can perform that kind of self-hypnosis should get into the lucrative smoking-cessation business.) More commonly, reporters vote but keep it to themselves. At the New York Times, even opinion columnists are forbidden to endorse candidates...
Hillary has also been victorious in a number of other, critical states such as Ohio, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. Additionally, she has rallied the support of important swing voting groups such as Hispanics, whereas Obama’s support has come largely from traditional democratic voting blocs such as students and blacks. Though the presence of young voters and blacks has increased in this election, they cannot be counted upon in the general election, having failed to vote en masse in the past. While Obama has garnered an impressive number of victories—albeit mostly in traditionally...
...appears highly unlikely that either candidate will amass the number of pledged delegates needed to secure the nomination. The decision, it seems, will ultimately come down to the 796 Democratic “superdelegates,” a group of elected officials and party leaders who are free to vote for whichever candidate they think is best suited for the nomination. Many are claiming that these superdelegates should vote for whichever candidate has the majority of the popular vote, but this is not a legitimate method to determine the nomination. Although Barack Obama appears to have the popular vote lead...
...Broken down, the Mississippi vote had an unmistakable racial descant - and unmistakable limits for Obama. Exit polls revealed once again an emerging racial divide that has opened in the Democratic party between whites who tend by healthy margins to favor Clinton and blacks who overwhelmingly favor Obama. African Americans made up nearly half of the Democratic vote in Mississippi - and 90% of those voters, according to exit polls, pulled the lever for Obama, his strongest showing yet among African Americans. But Obama did poorly among whites, winning only 30%, according to exit polls. While this split was visible in Alabama...
...Mississippi is one of the most reliably Republican states in presidential elections. Only a Democrat who could win 35% to 40% of the white vote, while holding onto a lopsided percentage of blacks, could put the state in play in a head-to-head match with a Republican in the fall. Obama's 30% showing in the primary against Clinton falls short of that target...