Word: votes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This is where our society's tendency to label people becomes a problem. It shouldn't matter whether Obama is black or white. What does matter is whether he will be a good leader and work with Congress to get something accomplished. When election time comes, I will not vote for an African American. I will not vote for a white person. I will vote for the best candidate. After all, every one of the candidates is an American. Glenn Ireland, Sykesville...
...only one way of avoiding a vicious floor fight at August's Democratic National Convention in Denver. Both campaigns have been putting intense focus over the past few weeks on the roughly 800 superdelegates - party insiders including elected officials, national committee members and state chairmen - who get to vote at the convention by virtue of the positions they hold. The superdelegate concept was created by the party after the 1980 election for just this sort of eventuality, and they are the closest modern equivalent to old-style clubhouse politicians. The Clinton and Obama campaigns have been courting not only superdelegates...
...Illinois, winning a greater margin than she got in New York. And before the first polls had even closed, his aides were reminding anyone who would listen that they had never expected to carry more states than Clinton. Still, he only got just over half of the Latino vote in Illinois - and lost it by a margin of 2 to 1 in California, suggesting his efforts to sway the demographic have so far failed...
...Obama needs strong women. If you compare his narrow win in Missouri to the thumpings he took in California and Massachusetts, the women's vote is clearly the key. Obama ran even with Clinton among women in Missouri, probably for two reasons. He has decisively won the tug-of-war over the votes of black women. But where African-Americans comprised a small segment of the vote, as they did in California and Massachusetts, this didn't help him much. He also had the vigorous support of Missouri's leading Democratic women - Sen. Claire McCaskill and former Sen. Jean Carnahan...
...much excitement, he would have to be considered for the party's vice-presidential nomination-the Obama people saw a trap. If Obama and his aides lent any credence now to the dangled notion of a partnership, they know that some of his voters might peel off, thinking a vote for Clinton was, in effect, a twofer. And that could drive down Obama's turnout. "We're not running for Vice President," said Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs...