Après six semaines de pause, Barack Obama et Hillary Clinton s'affrontent dans les primaires en Pennsylvanie. Le web joue le rôle de relais infernal dans la guerre médiatique qui fait rage entre les deux candidats à l'investiture démocrate.... lire la suite
Le Parti Democrate s'inquiete. Nous avions annonce ces derniers jours que les voix s'eleveraient pour mettre un terme a ce duel. C'est desormais le cas. Avec le Gouverneur du Tenessee, Phil Bredesen, c'est le debut de l'expression publique d'un sentiment longtemps diffus : le combat Obama versus Clinton doit prendre fin. Encore faut-il trouver des modalites techniques justes. C'est la où le role des "grands electeurs" pourrait trouver une justification particuliere. Chque camp cherche la bonne methode ; ce qui montre qu'une nouvelle etape est ouverte. Il ne peut plus etre question de laisser McCain faire ainsi cavalier seul.
Apres six semaines de pause, Barack Obama et Hillary Clinton s'affrontent dans les primaires en Pennsylvanie. Le web joue le role de relais infernal dans la guerre mediatique qui fait rage entre les deux candidats a l'investiture democrate.
For many months, the two most asked questions raised in the US presidential elections were „Is America ready for a woman in the White House?“ and „Is America ready for an Afro-American in the White House?“. Somehow, the question of the next president of the USA was reduced to the duel between Obama and Clinton. While Barack Obama outscored his competitors on the Democratic side in Iowa by scoring 38% in this strange Iowa caucus grass-roots democratic process, pushing Hillary...
Bill Clinton, that is. CNN is reporting that Bill Clinton's negative campaigning and harsh - completely Clintonian - attacks on Obama backfired rather badly. Roughly 6 in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters said Bill Clinton's campaigning was important in how they ultimately decided to vote, and of those voters, 48 percent went for Barack Obama while only 37 percent went for Hillary Clinton. Fourteen percent of those voters voted for John Edwards Meanwhile, the exit polls also indicate Obama easily beat Clinton among those voters who decided in the last three days — when news reports heavily covered the former president's heightened criticisms of Obama. Twenty percent of South Carolina Democrats made their decision in the last three days and 51 percent of them chose Obama, while only 21 percent picked Clinton. That is a really, really bad backfire, folks. CNN is also predicting what could best be described as a landslide win for Obama: With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Obama had 54 percent of the vote. Clinton was second with 27 percent, followed by Edwards, with 19 percent. Obama beat Clinton and Edwards combined, for heaven's sake. Clinton was smashed in South Carolina. This was a decisive loss.
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Add another drubbing for Hillary Clinton in Louisiana giving a sweep to Obama in all three states that held primaries yesterday. Although Obama's margin was a little lower than in Washington and Nebraska, it was still very close to two to one with CNN reporting 57% to 36%. John McCain also had troubles yesterday winning only one close contest in Washington but losing to Huckabee in Louisiana and Kansas. Troubling for the Republican side is the very low turnout in all three contests. The New York Times calls Obama's wins convincing. Senator Barack Obama won decisive victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska on Saturday, giving him an impressive sweep going into a month when the Democratic nominating contests are expected to favor him. The successes come just as Mr. Obama is building a strong advantage over Mrs. Clinton in raising money, providing important fuel for the nominating contests ahead. Still, the results were expected to do little to settle the muddle in the delegate race that resulted after the wave of contests last Tuesday in which the two candidates split up states from coast to coast. While Mr. Obama had been expected to win the contests on Saturday, the margin of victories were surprising, particularly in Nebraska and Washington, which offered the day’s biggest trove of delegates. In both states, he captured 68 percent of the vote in caucuses, compared with Mrs. Clinton’s roughly 32 percent. The Clinton campaign is actually whining that Obama outspent Clinton in advertising. Poor dears. The fact is that Obama won by absolutely devastating margins, regardless of how he did it. At least McCain stayed close in Washington amid the low turnout there.
The AP reports that Democratic insiders are worried about the stalemate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: “Many undeclared superdelegates express confidence that all will be well. Democratic voters will unite in the fall, they say, and the injuries that Obama and Clinton inflict on each other this spring will heal. Privately, however, some party insiders worry that these superdelegates may be blithely marching toward a treacherous crossroad, where they will have to choose between a deeply wounded Obama and a soaring Clinton whose success was built on tearing down the party’s front-runner in terms of delegates. The Democrats’ optimism of February has been replaced by fear, this aide said, referring to the widely held view last month that Obama was coasting to the nomination after winning 11 straight contests. Clinton halted the skid in Texas and Ohio on March 4 and is favored to win the Pennsylvania primary on April 22. If the New York senator also tops Obama in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, West Virginia a week later, and Kentucky and/or Oregon on May 20, her supporters will argue that the dynamic has sharply changed in ways party leaders cannot ignore. Obama is no longer the sure-footed campaigner who piled up wins and delegates in February, they will say, and the superdelegates’ obligation to the party is to nominate the sprinting Clinton, even if it angers Obama backers.” If Obama can halt Hillary’s momentum, he is all but assured of the nomination. But Democrats are still worried about what Hillary will do: “Some Obama supporters question Clinton’s motives: They suggest she is counting on a stunning gaffe or shocking revelation to cripple Obama and hand her the nomination. Others float a more sinister possibility, which has found its way into mainstream news accounts: Clinton hopes to damage Obama so severely that he loses to McCain this fall, clearing her path to challenge McCain in 2012, when he will be 75.”
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