Obama campaign makes changes to attack Blue-collar Voters

The Obama campaign fears that since his lost in Pennsylvania that he is being portrayed as out-of-touch with blue-collars voters. In an article today on the New York Times website reports that Obama is switching up his usual town-hall meetings for larger stadium rallies to encourage bigger turnouts and provide him with a victory in Indiana, a victory, that would hopefully wrap up the Democratic race.

Longtime Clinton supporter and major “Hillraiser” switches to Obama

CNN reports Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton and served as ambassador to Chile during the Clinton administration has withdrawn his support for Hillary in that for Obama. CNN quoted Gabriel “…I am first of all a Democrat”, declaring that the long drawn on race has hurt the party, rather than strengthen the nominees as say have stated. This definitely takes a blow to Hillary’s momentum she acquired from the big win in Pennsylvania.

Obama takes a loss in Pennsylvania

The Obama campaign was unable to end the race yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary, losing to Hillary Clinton by 9%. The New York Times reports that this loss shows the split among voters, Obama not receiving much help from working-class and whites. But even the Clinton campaign admitted that she desperately needs to win the next two primaries in Indiana and North Carolina (where Obama has a clear lead) to stay in the race, I wonder now that her victory proved to be by a larger margin than predicted if her campaign is kicking themselves in the butt for saying it.

Both Democratic candidates step up attacks as the Pennsylvania primary less than 48 hours away

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama increase their attack ads in Pennsylvania, foreseeing the importance of these last 40 hours until the vote. Both candidates have spent big money so far on ads for the P.A. primary. Obama and Clinton have crisscrossed through Pennsylvania the past days persuading the citizens for their vote. CNN reports that Obama has successfully cut into Clinton’s 20 point lead to as little a single digits, see the article here.

Michelle Obama on the Colbert Report

I was one of the many viewers that watched Michelle Obama on the Colbert Report last night. I found her intriguing. Steven joked about a few of the issues that Barack has been dealing with lately; the “bitter” remarks, about being an elitist (while growing up on the south side of Chicago). She spoked firmly about her views on Barack and she believes the race will end before the convention (let’s all pray for that). Steven even sang to her, listen here. Perhaps Mrs. Obama’s appearance will give will give Obama the famed “Colbert bump” in next Tuesday’s primary.

“Bitter” remark still in the news…

I think I speak for everyone when I say how stupid this “bitter” story is. But, I guess I shouldn’t be surprise that this story is a hot topic in the mainstream news. Obama spoked about the attitudes of small town voters and the Clinton campaign jumped on it, stating his remarks were “elitist and divisive”, as the New York Times reports it. Yeah, the Obama’s earned $900,000 while the Clinton’s racked in over $102 million, but that doesn’t yield any evidence of being an elitist.

Obama gaining in superdelegate race

Yahoo reported a story today stating Barack Obama has gained ground among the superdelegates, a category that was Hillary’s last hope of winning the nomination. Obama is ahead in the delegate race and is outearning Hillary by enormous amounts, cutting her lead into her lead with the superdelegates would be the final blow to her campaign, ultimately ending it. Clinton had a strong lead with the superdelegates early on in the race but that has now dwindled since Barack’s strong victories.

The force behind some adult Obama voters: young people

Today the New York Times had an article describing some stories of adults throughout the country who have been coerced into voting for Obama, by their children. The article even describes how a Penn State senior Megan talked her father into switching parties before the Pennsylvania primary deadline from Republican to Democrat in order for him to able to vote for Obama. I know from my own personal experience my parents were supportive of Hillary early on in the nomination process until I ( a 20 year old college student) kept informing them of my personal reasons for supporting Obama and eventually won them over. It was interesting to hear of this happening in many other cases, refocusing the early sediments that the ‘young’ are truly the force behind the Obama campaign.

Michigan and Florida- no redo’s

The Democrats have decided there is no possible way to fairly redo or count the Michigan and Florida primaries. Instead the Democrats are leaving up to the two candidates to fixed up a solution. Of course Obama is in no rush to find a solution and will likely keep the position not to do a recount, which, of course would favor Hillary. I believe the DNC knew the consequences of holding their primaries early and should face those consequences.

Obama campaign out-earns Clinton 2-1

The Obama campaign continues to out-earn Clinton in the month of March, The New York Times reports a figure close to 40 million dollars. Of course this is good news for the Obama campaign, and continually bad news for Hillary who has seen a dramatic decrease in donations. If Hillary does not win Pennsylvania by a large portion, she can bet on seeing an even greater decrease. Eventually the Democrats will have a presidential candidate and it looks like it will be Obama.