Countdown to the Nomination
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I just got this email from Vanessa Wasserman, Delegate Coordinator for the Barack Obama campaign:
Hello,
Just wanted to send you an update of where we stand after yesterday’s exciting primary results.
We project that Senator Obama netted a total of approximately 13 delegates out of primaries in Indiana and North Carolina yesterday. Today, Senator Obama moved closer to becoming the Democratic nominee by winning the support of four superdelegates (North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek, North Carolina DNC member Jeanette Council, California DNC member Inola Henry and Virginia Assembly member Jennifer McClellan who switched from Clinton). That total of 4 delegates means that Obama is now only 169 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination.
The Math
Contests won – Obama 32, Clinton 16
Total Delegates – Obama 1856, Clinton 1698.5
Pledged delegates Obama needs for a majority of pledged delegates – 33
Total delegates Obama needs for the nomination – 169
Link to full state-by-state results: http://www.barackobama.com/resultscenter/index.php
We are definitely on the road to change!
Hope all is well.
Vanessa
We are so close! If you want to be part of the last sprint to the finish line, please consider making some phone calls today, tomorrow and/or this weekend! It’s really easy, so if you haven’t done it before, I hope you’ll take an hour to try it out. Just go to the Obama Phone Banking Center.
We’ll be doing Voter Registration for the rest of election season, too. So, watch for emails on the ListServ and local events on the web site, for information on how you can help with that. We’re kicking it off this weekend by looking for Voter Registration Coordinators at the Utah State Democratic Convention. We want to reach out to people in every neighborhood in Utah. We’re doing this in conjunction with the Utah State Democratic Party, because our real goal is to make sure Democrats get elected at every level.
Thursday, May 8th 2008 at 7:22 am
Unity is the great need of the hour. Unity and the hope for unity and the need for unity in the pursuit of hope and the hope that our unified hopefulness will carry us to ever greater heights of hopeful unity until each and everyone of us is the person he longs to be. That’s what Barack Obama is all about.