Slog - Comments on Memo to the Superdelegates: It's Over http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates The Obama campaign has sent out a tough memo this morning telling superdelegates that Obama has played by the Democratic rules (unlike Clinton, who can only win by changing the rules and moving the goalposts) and the math is the math. With out saying so overtly, the memo clearly says: It's over. Obama will win the nomination. This pretense of an unsettled fight is ridiculous. Get on board. They're talking to you, Jim McDermott and Rick Larsen, our undecided Congressmen from Washington State. Here's the memo. Obama will be in D.C. tonight and tomorrow to make the case to the... Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:41:38 -0800 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:53:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos Let Hillary keep fighting. Some wiz from the mortgage biz can repackage her loans to her campaign and make them smell a little fresher. If she won't quit then she's Mike Huckabee.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017054 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:34:02 -0800 Comment by josh ... where "a startling 68 percent" equals 152 more delegates than Obama needs.

(no, I don't think she'll get the nomination.)

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017058 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:42:28 -0800 Comment by cressona Memo to David Plouffe and all the Obamatons who want to say now that the math is the math:
Hillary Clinton isn't casting her lot with the elitist mathematicians. We need a president to represent all the real people who didn't get an A in Algebra--and who resent the dorks who did.

]]> cressona http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017062 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:48:25 -0800 Comment by elenchos ...not to mention the dorks who got a B, a C, or a D in algebra. The hell will y'all and your elitist passing grades. Bill Joe Jim Bob, pour me another shot of, uh, Chivas Regal! Yee haw!

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017081 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:09:53 -0800 Comment by blip @3 Why do we need a president that resents good math grades again? Oh, right. It's those pesky good students that have been screwing everything up. It wasn't for people who were good at math, I'm sure we'd all be living in pure peace and prosperity! Damn you, nerds! DAMN YOU!

]]> blip http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017086 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017086 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:48 -0800 Comment by blip @3 Why do we need a president that resents good math grades again? Oh, right. It's those pesky good students that have been screwing everything up. It wasn't for people who were good at math, I'm sure we'd all be living in pure peace and prosperity! Damn you, nerds! DAMN YOU!

]]> blip http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017088 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017088 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:13:10 -0800 Comment by Vince He'd had better win when it counts. In November.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017092 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:18:16 -0800 Comment by Fnarf It's not math, it's arithmetic. A fair number of those "uncommitted" superdelegates are certain for Obama, because of the way they are selected (picked by the state chair, who is an Obama supporter, or voted on at the convention by a strong Obama majority). It's not as close as it looks. Obama has 1844 by my count, with 262.5 uncommitted supers who are almost all his -- that puts him over.

Seating FL and MI puts him closer, not further away. With them, he's over 1,950 -- and doesn't even need that many supers.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017113 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017113 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:50:58 -0800 Comment by max solomon As long as he sticks to the script in "Don't Think of an Elephant", he does.

If the MSM lets him. I doubt they'll let McCain's adultery on wife #1 with wife #2 into general circulation. But get ready for "Michelle Obama is a Black Nationalist".

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/memo_to_the_uncommitted_superdelegates#c1017120 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:53:32 -0800