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How will Obama shift the story?

James Forsyth

Wednesday, 5th March 2008

Straight after its shock defeat in New Hampshire the Obama campaign rolled out a series of impressive endorsements--including John Kerry's--which helped move the story on from Clinton’s win there. So the question is what does the Obama campaign have up its sleeve this morning? We know that they haven’t declared their February fund raising total—thought to be a whopping $50 million, $15 million more than Clinton raised and $38 million more than McCain pulled in—there is also word that they have a whole bunch of super delegates ready to roll out.

Both stories would help in getting the press to focus on the delegate math, which still heavily favours Obama, but Clinton is likely to ride this wave of favourable coverage for a while. Expect her campaign to start openly calling for re-votes in Florida and Michigan, two states who have had their delegates taken away by the Democratic party for voting earlier than they were allowed to, and to claim that Obama is trying to disenfranchise voters if he won’t agree.

Clinton is still behind. But last night gave her a slim opening and we can expect her to do everything she can to try and take advantage of it.

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TGF UKIP

March 5th, 2008 9:23pm

James, when I read Americano last night with your reports of not just his Nafta problem but, more importantly, his reaction - 8 Press questions before fleeing - I sensed that this was the fragility that the Clintons were hoping would be demonstrated. My view is that he's finished. A candidate can only say "change" so many times and contain the media for so long. Now I would guess that the media will re-discover their love affair with the Clintons as will the Party Establishment. Obama will be a shooting star footnote. Pity really, McCain and Ol' Turd Blossom would have made mincemeat out of him.

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March 5th, 2008 9:48pm

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Ganpat Ram

March 6th, 2008 4:44pm

Obama is a miserable charlatan. I always thought so. But McCain, though a military hero, is also an incredible bore. His speeches are anti-climatic and fall flat. His greatest fans are senile. Read in the open air his speeches make dogs drop dead out of sheer boredom. McCain is a YAWN. Hillary will massacre him. Even now she is 6 points ahead of him in the polls. Obama is 12 points ahead, but this is before the Ohio election.