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Obama: Clinton's The Super Tuesday Favorite
February 05, 2008 4:13 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama played the prediction game for tonight's Super Tuesday results as he cast his balllot blocks from his South Side Chicago home.
"I still think Senator Clinton is the favorite. She had 20-30 point leads in many of these states, we've been closing some ground," Obama told reporters inside the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School polling center, "My guess is we'll have a good night and we'll probably end up having a split decision."
Obama said that contrary to early states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, the multi-state contest across the nation is harder to predict.
"I think everybody's flying blind at this point. When we were doing one state at a time we could actually track and get a sense of how that election was going, how that turnout was going. Here you've got 24 states no one can keep track of it."
Obama said that the recent endorsement of Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who campaigned with him Monday, helped generate excitement on the ground.
Michelle Obama accompanied the Senator to the polling place and they cast their ballots side by side.
When asked by a reporter who he cast his ballot for Obama flashed a big smile and replied, "It was close but in the end I went for Obama."
February 5, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (19)
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Obama rallies in the polls.
The market drops 370 points.
Watch what you wish for.
Posted by: Thomas K | Feb 5, 2008 4:36:35 PM
oh the surge in the polls the surge in the polls . . .
And now he is baiting the results by trying to play her as the favorite - what about the earth shattering tidal wave of change that has 'happened'? That is past tense Barack. You said it 2 days ago. The tidal wave had come and now he was the one to beat.
And so today we have a switch in tactics. There is no way Hillary can win in the press either. Think about it. She wins a lot of states - 'well, she had bigger leads and just barely one - so its a loss for her' . Obama wins and its 'He over came her huge lead - its a terrible loss for her'.
There is no way for her to get a positive message tonight - that was set up right after the massacre of Florida - which didn't count but spoke volumes about what will happen in November. A Black Democrat that supports abortion, gay rights, tax hikes on the rich, nearly socialized medicine, who also hates guns and Wal-Mart - he is going to defeat a White Corporate loving, gun loving, war loving, gay hating, pro-life, Christ in the Constitution Republican, in the south? No way, ever ever ever ever will that happen. No way ever. Period. And without the south you cannot make it in the electoral college. You folks need to realize this. It isn't going to happen.
So, let's just give the election to Obama and then lose the White House and just get this farce over with once and for all? I mean why wait. He is so cocky and arrogant and confident, let's just do it. Get him in there. He gets his ### kicked from here to Kenya, and then all the reverse racists out there will be crying Stolen Election, Fixed Machines, Cheating Against The Black Man.
I can't wait for the racial warfare that is going to break out across America. It'll be Rodney King + OJ + Katrina all rolled into one. Won't that be fun!!! Yippeee!!
This is a disaster.
Posted by: 2009 Where Are You? | Feb 5, 2008 4:48:07 PM
2009 Where Are You?:Totally agree with you.
Posted by: fcykc | Feb 5, 2008 4:53:05 PM
Everyone loves an underdog! Smart move!
Posted by: frenchtulip | Feb 5, 2008 4:56:00 PM
Obama I hope you win today.. Holding thumbs in London.
Posted by: John London | Feb 5, 2008 5:18:46 PM
Wow! I love how "We The Media" decide the candidates for us! What a democracy!!!!
Posted by: WOW | Feb 5, 2008 6:10:55 PM
2009....we are in 2008.
And believe it or not it is OBAMA year. 1992 was the Clinton's year, but it was 16 years ago.
Come on, we need a change. America cannot go backward. We have to move forward. Bill Clinton was a bigger gambling in 1992 than Obama is know. So I don't see your point. I don't see why we shouldn't give a shot at Barack.
Man, the Clinton's has been given 8 years. The Constitution is clear. After 8 years, you cannot be elected againt. Bill can push his wife, but we all know that it's about Bill.
Indeed we a have a choice:
Either:
1) Clinton: then we jump 16 years in the past
2) McCain: same as Bush = Big deficit, WAR, ARROGANCE, NOTHING ACCOMPLISH in 8 years
PS: Bush started is presidency by sending us a check. He wants to the nightmare by sending us a check again. At least he is nice.
3) Romney: obviously an empty flipflopper.
4) Obama: vision, courage, inspiration and good judgment. He is not perfect (no one on earth is perfect) but he is the best candidate by far.
Anyway, let's the DEMOCRACY talks. Today and during the coming weeks America will talk.
Posted by: Docta | Feb 5, 2008 6:15:57 PM
hey 2009 where are you: what republican are you talking about, McCain, Romney,Huckabee, or some phantom Republican yet to be dug up and named?
Posted by: antvr8 | Feb 5, 2008 6:31:27 PM
hey 2009 where are you: what republican are you talking about, McCain, Romney,Huckabee, or some phantom Republican yet to be dug up and named? Because to my knowledge that does not describe anyone in the republican contest. unless, you are going to Frankenstein them and build a Newt GainGriench
Posted by: antvr8 | Feb 5, 2008 6:38:34 PM
Actually, the attacks here on Obama are fairly mild. Why not bring up his past drug use, compare it to Bush's? Why not compare him again to Jesse Jackson? Why not talk about each and every one of his misstatements regarding his record and his equivocations? I too would like to see the worst of Obama because I think the Republicans will bring it out eventually anyway. My guess is that all of it plus about ten times more will not be enough to stop him. Jack Kennedy was a philanderer and Ronald Reagan slept during cabinet meetings. When you have the "it" factor on your side, you will continue to flourish. Obama is a celebrity, more so than even Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton is about as exciting as a 90s era politician/bureaucrat.
Posted by: timeaftertime | Feb 5, 2008 7:11:40 PM
Obama is only winning because Kennedy (big guns) is supporting him..talk about old era...Wake up OBAMA groupies... OBAMA will be in Kennedy's back pocket...that is one of the reason he is supporting him....he can not have Clinton in his back pocket..blacks overwhelmingly voting for Obama tells me they know it is about race...
Posted by: Dle | Feb 5, 2008 8:41:45 PM
The red party could have jesus on the ticket and they won't win. Period.
Posted by: lmao@reps | Feb 5, 2008 8:48:48 PM
Posted by: 2009 Where Are You?,
Where have you been? She is the favorite!! The man is right. She's been the favorite for well OVER a year. She is DOWN PLAYING the results as well not just him. He has a reason to down play. He is having to play catch up with her, she's not having to catch up with him. So, I find her down playing rather odd. Perhaps she is doing so because he is catching up to her. And, she knows fully well within time - if time was on his side - he very well could. But, there is no time so he can't. So, really I don't know why she is down playing it so much. She is so desperate that they are now calling for a debate every week according to CNN. I don't know why because it is hardly as if she will lose tonight. In fact, Obama is right she is the favorite - and will most likely sweep all the states. So, I wonder if after tonight, she will still want to do those debates. I'm thinking not and that he was just a ploy to still some of us thunder and slow down his pace of catching up to her. Shameful.
Posted by: Mark | Feb 5, 2008 9:28:37 PM
He is catching up to her, becuase of the favortism the press shows him. If they were half as hard on him and his supporters as they are on her, maybe all of these people that are blindly jumping on the Obama bandwagon would open their eyes and run in the other direction.
Posted by: Sarah | Feb 6, 2008 12:01:32 AM
This is an exciting election -- the best one yet!
Posted by: May Huddleston | Feb 6, 2008 12:01:33 AM
I am really disappointed by Obama. I was so impressed by him in the beginning and thought he was a nice and honest person. For the past few weeks, this guy, my former favorite, has shown such ill manners, meanness, and downright dishonesty. While attacking Hillary the whole week before Tuesday, he accused Hillary of being divisive, etc. Now he has changed from "Smear" to "Scare" after realizing his smears did not work. So what kind of dirt will Republicans dig up? White water? Hasn't a special prosecutor spent $50 millions of taxpayers's money and found a clean bill of health of the Clintons?
It is really beneath any democratic candidate, specially the so-much-acclaimed Obama to carry out this dirty attack on a fellow democrat. Some Americans are drunk with Obama's oratory that they can't think straight.
Obama's scare tactics betray an ugly and dirty underbelly of Obama's true character, mean, ruthless and dishonest.
Posted by: huey | Feb 6, 2008 4:31:59 PM
Imagine Hillary has made such a remark about Obama, her words will be splashed all over the TV screens. Obama's attacks are seldom highlighed by the media. Wait a minutie! Won't the Republicans make a song and dance about Obama's sweetheart deal with a known slumlord now in jail without bail? Republicans will really go after this ordinary people's candidate who lives in $1.65 million mansion purchased with the help of the illgotten gains of a slum lord. The Republican machine will spin this one out of control and Obama will lose his status of being the "people's choice." Desperate people can do anything without thinking. But Obama should pause and look into the mirror before such rabid attacks on Hillary. He only damages himself.
Posted by: antonie | Feb 6, 2008 4:41:17 PM
Hard to figure out why Hillary is the favorite?" She gives us a list of what changes she will make and those are real historical changes. Unlike Obama whose utterance of:"this historical moment" which is getting so boring now, has not provided what and how he would change. This is so glaringly clear. Only the braindead from slogan-posion can't see. Too bad there are still quite a few lucid people who are not drunk with empty rhetorics. Thence Hillary is the favorite and will be.
Posted by: sober | Feb 6, 2008 4:47:53 PM
Bill has pushed America forward in social and economic justice which have been pushed backward by the reactionary Bush regime. Hillary will pull America out of this reactionary reversal and push America forward, greatly forward again.
Posted by: progess | Feb 6, 2008 4:53:29 PM
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