Friday, February 8, 2008

Obama Slogan Attracting New Voters

This past Tuesday was a day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was talking about in his “I Have A Dream” speech. One of the media’s main topics was how Senator Barack Obama would surely win the states with heavy Black populations, which only included Alabama and Georgia on that “Super Tuesday”. However, at the end of the day he won the popular vote in 13 of the 21 states and American Samoa holding primaries or caucuses, and standing with him when he spoke to his supporters was an audience of every race shouting "Yes We Can."

Three days after the voting ended, and the race for Democratic delegates in Super Tuesday's contests is still too close to call. With nearly 1,600 delegates from Tuesday contests awarded, Sen. Barack Obama led by two delegates as of today, Friday, with 91 delegates still to be awarded. Obama won 796 delegates in Tuesday's contests, to 794 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to analysis of voting results by The Associated Press.

Nearly a third of the outstanding delegates are from Colorado, a state where Obama won the popular vote. California, a state that Clinton carried, had 20 Democratic delegates still to be awarded. Neither state expected to have complete results before next week.

In the overall race for the nomination, Clinton has 1,055 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as super delegates. Obama has
998. A total of 2,025 delegates are needed to secure the Democratic nomination.

One of the exciting things that Obama brings to the table is that he has gotten the younger voters involved. Exit polls show that there are more 18 to 21 year olds and first time voters participating in the process than ever. He is not only winning the Black vote, but also, White males, younger White females. He is also drawing the independents. Clinton is winning the older White female, the Latino, and the Asian votes.

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