No, not tonight. But sometime next week. That’s according to the latest press release.
LOUISVILLE – Early next week, Senator Barack Obama will make his third visit to Kentucky since he began running for president. No further details are available at this time. An updated schedule will be released as soon as it is available.
“We’re ecstatic that Senator Obama will be returning to our great state of Kentucky,” said Obama for America Kentucky State Director Carolyn Tandy. “Senator Obama has spent his life fighting for working families, and we’re happy that voters will be able to hear first hand his plan to bring America together to deliver real change in Washington.”
Recall that his campaign is tossing aside an opportunity to make a major wave by not appearing with Hillary Clinton this evening at a fundraiser in Louisville to benefit the Kentucky Democratic Party. (The Secret Service still thinks Obama will be in town, so…)
Obama, the nominee according to all talking heads, just opened his 16th campaign office in Kentucky.
8 responses so far ↓
1 UK Alumni // May 9, 2008 at 10:58 am
Look, this thing is over.
Hillary’s continuing charade as a potential nominee must come to an end. She and her surrogates have nothing left be desperation tactics that do nothing but hurt the party.
I know I’m one to talk, especially when I poke fun an Bruce Lunsford’s dubious credentials as a Democratic candidate; but let’s face it, Lunsford is all but a DOA in this election. Obama on the other hand is going to stomp all over “100 more years in Iraq” McCain. The only thing that can prevent that is a Democratic Party Schism.
So in general I say ‘Hillary (and Hillary Supporters)- Good race, well fought; now do the right thing and bow out before you rewrite the definition of Pyrrhic Victory’.
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4 Steve Bittenbender // May 9, 2008 at 11:23 am
UK Alum,
I’m a Hillary supporter. I plan to vote for Hillary on May 20, but I agree it would take an act of God for her to become the nominee.
That being said, the football team that trails by three touchdowns with a minute left still tries to pass the ball. Even in a losing effort, they want to end it well.
At this point in the race, it’s really up to the superdelegates to end it.
5 UK Alumni // May 9, 2008 at 11:39 am
Steve,
I appreciate your comments and feel the party was overall very lucky to have two strong candidates. And since Obama overtook HRC this morning in the Super-delegate count, I believe like you that decison is coming sooner rather than later.
That being said, this race is functionally over. Polling groups like Rassmuessen have declared they will no longer track the primary contest for the obvious reason that HRC will not be the nominee.
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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Friday, May 09, 2008
Rasmussen Reports has been tracking the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination daily for nineteen months… since November 2006. For the last few months, the most remarkable feature of the race has been its consistency and stability. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both running historic campaigns and both have captured the votes and hearts of distinct and important constituencies within the Democratic Party. Obama has won Primaries in states where the demographics favor his campaign and Clinton has won in the states that favor her campaign.
However, while Senator Clinton has remained close and competitive in every meaningful measure, she is a close second and the race is over. It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.
http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
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I understand with the financials involved why HRC is playing this out as long as she can, I’m just not convinced that’s a good enough reason to continue the process at the expense of unity.
6 Steve Bittenbender // May 9, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Obama has taken the lead in superdelegates? Hadn’t seen that. MSDNC (er, MSNBC) still shows Hillary with a slight lead in the supers.
7 UK Alumni // May 9, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Snip-
“Sen. Barack Obama moved into the lead today in the last category that Sen. Hillary Clinton had claimed to have an edge — support among the Democratic Party’s superdelegates.
The Illinois Democrat grabbed the superdelegate lead thanks to a switch by New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne and an endorsement from previously uncommitted Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon.
Those two votes gave Obama a 267-266 lead over Clinton. That is a huge shift since the days when Clinton boasted about a 60-plus vote lead among the party’s pros back on Super Tuesday.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4818637&page=1
8 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // May 9, 2008 at 1:14 pm
ABC News is the first news organization to calculate that Obama is ahead in superdelegates, but the calculations of other news organizations haven’t caught up… yet. On the ABC site, they admit that they are offering unscientific estimates based on their ongoing communications with superdelegates.
Of course, Obama is going to be leading in superdelegates. He’s won the race for pledged delegates, as there’s virtually no way for Hillary to catch up or surpass him in those with the remaining contests.
I do sincerely hope that Hillary supporters can figure out a way to get on board the Obama Express for November. We really do have to defeat the Republicans in November for a multitude of reasons, and this is no time to take our marbles and go home. Our beloved republic is at stake here.
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