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Really now. Seems that when she had the majority of the pledged superdelegates, Hillary was a amazingly firm champion of the Superdeleates making up their own mind. Seems that now that those minds don’t want to coalesce around her, Hillary would prefer that those self-same Superdelegates be forced to vote  in some special specific way that would benefit Hillary. She is of course using the excuse that she has a greater share of the popular vote, a point that doesn’t really fit reality as well as it fits HER reality, but let’s not belabor that point. the point is. This is the same system that was perfect as far as she was concerned while she was leading, but that is now hopelessly broke when she is losing.

BRANDON, South Dakota (CNN) – In the face of Barack Obama’s insurmountable lead among pledged delegates, Hillary Clinton on Friday again declared victory in the popular vote and suggested the current nominating process fails to represent the true will of American voters.

“We’re going to have to change the system by which we pick the nominees, I believe, and we are with the system we have now,” Clinton said, responding to a supporter here who lamented the role of superdelegates in selecting the party’s nominee. “And I’m a big believer in one person one vote, and I believe in as much democracy as possible.”

Clinton told the supporter that “superdelegates will play a big role” in choosing the nominee, but said she would prefer a primary-only system in which nominating contests would be bundled together.

“I think that’s an issue for debate in the future because I believe we should have primaries everywhere, and everybody, as many people as possible should be encouraged to vote,” she said. “We ought to group them so that nobody is at the tail end, so everybody has a chance to participate. But that’s all for the future.”

Despite her apparent dig against superdelegates, Clinton and her campaign have routinely argued that those party elites should be able to exercise their independent judgment in choosing a nominee, regardless of vote totals or pledged delegate counts.

 

Clinton also entered into a lengthy fulmination on the question of electability, arguing that she can “put together the electoral map” to defeat John McCain and citing a sampling of Karl Rove’s electoral maps and polling data, obtained by ABC News earlier this week, that showed her performing better than Obama in key states.

“Ask anybody who is supporting my opponent to please tell you how he gets to the 270 electoral votes that we must have to win,” she said. “Every independent analysis that I have seen, some of them done by no friends of Democrats as well as objective news channels, show that I defeat John McCain in key states like Florida, like Ohio, and my opponent does not. Show that I have won states totaling 300 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling about 217 electoral votes.”

On her chances in South Dakota, Clinton said she is “racing against the wind here” because Obama has “a lot of the institutional support, a lot of the political establishment” in the state.

(CNN) — Despite Sen. Barack Obama’s commanding lead in the delegate count, Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned hard Sunday, telling voters she’s "running for the toughest job in the world."

Clinton spent her weekend in Kentucky, which, along with Oregon, holds its Democratic contest Tuesday.

Clinton is favored in Kentucky, while polls show Obama with a comfortable lead in Oregon.

Speaking in Bowling Green, the senator from New York said it was a "treat" to have the whole state to herself since Obama would not be returning there.

Clinton has faced calls to drop out of the race since she trails Obama across all fronts — pledged delegates, superdelegates and the popular vote.

Clinton has recently been claiming a lead over Obama in the popular vote, a debatable claim, especially because the Democratic National Committee doesn’t count the votes of Florida and Michigan, which Clinton does. Watch why she says she’s ahead »

Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates for scheduling their primaries too early, and Clinton was the only top-tier candidate whose name was on the ballot in Michigan.

Clinton’s campaign also excludes the caucus states in their popular vote count.

According to CNN’s latest count, Obama leads Clinton in total delegates 1,904 to 1,717. A candidate needs 2,025 to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Clinton encouraged her Kentucky supporters to vote in the upcoming primary, saying Sunday, "If we get everybody turned out, it’s going to send a great message to our country that you don’t stop democracy in its tracks."

"You don’t tell some states that they can’t vote and other states that have already had the opportunity that they’re somehow more important," she said.

In considering who to vote for, she told the crowd to "think about this as a hiring decision."

"Come out and vote for me on Tuesday, I’ll work my heart out for you," she said.

Meanwhile Obama, who’s been campaigning in Oregon, focused his attacks on Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Obama on Sunday suggested that McCain hasn’t received the kind of scrutiny that he’s received throughout the campaign.

"It is very understandable that the press focus has been on myself and Sen. Clinton because this has been a pretty exciting race on the Democratic side. I would expect that the press will submit him to the same scrutiny that they are submitting me," he said at a senior center in Gresham.

In Gresham, Obama detailed his plans to strengthen Social Security. Part of his plan includes eliminating income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 per year.

Obama made low-key campaign stops this weekend, hitting a street festival in Keizer and stopping for ice cream in Eugene.

The last time Oregon had much weight in the primary season was in 1968, when Robert Kennedy was campaigning for the Democratic nomination.

The prolonged primary season comes to an end June 3. Puerto Rico weighs in on June 1, and South Dakota and Montana bring the season to a close the following Tuesday.

It’s amazingly simple, Hillary really should have seen this coming as she was the one who forced Edwards’ hand. Edwards decision can be summed up in two words. "One America". John Edwards has always been a quiet champion of the unity of all Americans. Most recently, in order to win the nomination, Hillary has taken to dividing America in half by racial and educational and economic lines. That attempt to win by division showed John Edwards who was the real candidate, who cared more for their ountry than themselves, who was the greater exemplar of character. That person is Barack Obama, and with this major endorsement, the train of change rolls on.

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With a resounding message of unity of ALL Americans, and struggle for the real working class, John Edwards actively endorsed Barack Obama. While keeping Hillary Clinton visible as a fellow Democrat , He still expressed his belief that Barack was the better candidate, the more likely to bring the needed change to America.

He told NBC last week that Obama, the Democratic front-runner, is the party’s likely nominee. Both Obama and the his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, had sought Edwards’ blessing.

Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Wednesday that "we respect John Edwards, but as the voters of West Virginia showed last night, this thing is far from over."

According to CNN’s latest estimates, Obama has 1,884 total delegates (pledged: 1,600, superdelegates: 284). Clinton has 1,718 total delegates (pledged: 1,445, superdelegates: 273).

Edwards, meanwhile, has 19 total pledged delegates who may or may not pledge their support for Obama at the Democratic National Committee’s August convention in Denver, Colorado.

Edwards, who is not a superdelegate, said last week that it was "fine" for Clinton to continue making her case but expressed concern that a continued campaign could damage the party’s prospects in November.

Wednesday’s endorsement could help Obama reach out to white blue-collar voters, a demographic that Obama has failed to capture, most notably in the recent Pennsylvania and West Virginia primaries.

Edwards had campaigned on the message that he was standing up for the little guy, the people who are not traditionally given a voice in Washington, and that he would do more to fight special interests.

After dropping out of the race, Edwards asked both Clinton and Obama to make poverty a central issue in the general election and a future Democratic administration, something both agreed to do. Watch Edwards discuss Obama and Clinton on "Larry King Live" »

An endorsement from Edwards, who ran as vice president on Sen. John Kerry’s ticket in the 2004 presidential election, would have a significant impact on the race, Democratic strategist Peter Fenn said after Edwards dropped out.

"You could make an argument that the change issue does benefit Barack Obama, that he picks up that support. You could also make the argument that there’s a lot of support out there amongst people that will go to Hillary," he said. "The big issue here is who will he endorse."

Some political pundits predicted that Edwards’ supporters are more likely to lean in Obama’s direction.

"The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will pick up maybe 60 percent of them, and in some places, that makes a huge difference," former presidential adviser David Gergen said in January.

Time magazine’s Joe Klein contends that Clinton "represents a lot of the things that [Edwards] campaigned against, you know, the old Washington Democratic establishment that he believes got too close to the corporations in the ’90s."

Edwards announced that he was dropping out in New Orleans, Louisiana, the same city where he declared his run for the 2008 Democratic presidential race.

"It is time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path," he said.

With his wife, Elizabeth, and children at his side, Edwards said he couldn’t predict "who will take the final steps to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," but he said it would be a Democrat.

Edwards trailed Clinton and Obama in the early contests, including a third-place finish in Florida’s primary with 14 percent of the votes. He also came in third in key races in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Klein said Edwards played a positive role in spurring his competitors during the early part of the campaign.

"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on," Klein said.

Before entering politics, winning a Senate seat from North Carolina in 1998, Edwards was a lawyer representing families "being victimized by powerful interests," according to his campaign Web site.

Funny that the candidate that initially made the arguement that she was the logical candidate for Blacks and Hispanics to rally behind is NOW saying that their support means nothing. Hillary now makes the arguement that Blacks, Hispanics, Younger and Middle-Aged women, educated men, and every demographic BUT working-class men, just doesn’t count. Seems that since that’s where her support is the strongest, she is making the arguement that this is the only demographic that should be considered come the fall. Seems that Hillary is pretty quick to disenfranchise those who don’t support her. Any vote against Hillary is a vote that means nothing, according to her logic. Is there anyone who still believes that she won’t carry that spiteful, vindictive attitude all the way to the White House? That it will allways be her way or  no compromise, irregardless of the popular vote? After all, Hillary knows best.