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May 9, 2008

No Post 'Nominee' Bump Yet for Obama

@ 2:22 pm by Andy Barr

Despite Tim Russert and just about every noteworthy political talking head declaring Barack Obama the Democratic nominee on Tuesday, Obama has yet to receive any significant tracking poll bump, nor has Clinton's national support fallen off. Gallup has Obama up 2 percentage points today, which falls well within the line established in the days leading up to the North Carolina and Indiana primaries. 050908dailyupdategraph1_mn8trdg.gif

Rasmussen, which announced today it would stop polling the Obama-Clinton contest because "the race is over", shows Obama slightly opening up his lead, 50 percent to 42 percent, the biggest gap since nearly a month ago, but not yet his widest lead in the race.

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  1. She had her chance to make her case for the nomination and she lost. Obama and his people looked at the way the process is set up and ran a better race than her and her team. Like it or not, whatever the "polls" say, she cannot catch up to his lead.
    Get over it and move on to the GE.
    Unless you are a republican or prefer 4 more Bush years (where has that gotten us?) You should be focusing on helping Obama to win.

    Comment by robin m — May 10, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

  2. Clinton takes Indiana by a ‘razor’ and Obama wins North Carolina by a huge margin. Nevertheless, Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia are still to come.

    The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates

    If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama

    If you haven't done so yet, please write a message to each of your state's superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com

    Obama Supporters:

    Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It's that easy…

    Clinton Supporters too …. !

    It takes a moment, but what's a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !

    Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It's that easy…

    Comment by feeba — May 12, 2008 @ 1:47 am

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