Source: BBC News
This win is quite overwhelming for Obama. How will Clinton handle the fact that more than 80% of African Americans supported Obama? What is crucial for Hilary is that 66% of African American women went with Obama, focusing on their race over gender. In the meantime, Can Obama recover from his weak 25% support among white voters to become the nominee for the Democratic Party?
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BL // January 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Somehow, my feeling now is that with the Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama, he might be able to win the eventual nomination.
Wayne // January 28, 2008 at 2:23 am
Hey BL,
Glad to hear from a fellow American politics enthusiastic. It’s all quite exciting here in America, even as my college friends are geared up for the primaries on Feb 5 in Minnesota! Wish you could be here.
Kennedy and Kerry’s endorsements might be good, but think about it, it might be counterproductive.
Since Obama’s strategy is to inflate a campaign based on “change” and “newness” and “anti-establishment/Washington”, I am not sure how John Kerry and Edwards, both Washington insiders can help to promote this image. Local politicans’ endorsement probably work in more favor to Obama.
Let’s watch and see, it just surprises me how the American media is caught up with Obamamania. They are giving him really good coverage as compared to BBC’s more independent analysis by Justin Webb.
BL // January 28, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Ted Kennedy’s endorsement for Obama will launch the Kennedy machinery into his campaign. For Super Tuesday, the decisive state for Obama to win is California. That will close the number of delegates between Hillary and him, with Edwards passing his delegates to Obama to win the nomination.
The only thing that Hillary can do is to ensure that Obama don’t win California by using the divisive nature of the Latino vs Black communities.
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