Thursday, February 28, 2008

Bloomberg Not Running

"I believe that an independent approach to these issues is essential to governing our nation — and that an independent can win the presidency. I listened carefully to those who encouraged me to run, but I am not — and will not be — a candidate for president. I have watched this campaign unfold, and I am hopeful that the current campaigns can rise to the challenge by offering truly independent leadership. The most productive role that I can serve is to push them forward, by using the means at my disposal to promote a real and honest debate." Michael R. Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.

Use the above link to read the Op-Ed in the New York Times.

Could he be a VP or Cabinet Secretary?

Michael H. Drucker
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Hillary Rewrites History

Last night in the Democratic debate in Ohio, Hillary tried to rewrite history. She dissed the NY Independence Party in a responce to Obama's answer about Louis Farrakhan's endorsement. To understand what the true story is please use the above link.

As an elected official of the party I am really mad. Maybe it is time for the Clintons to leave the scene and let history determine whether their time in politics were good or bad.

Michael H. Drucker
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Grassroots 2008

I was watching a C-SPAN conference about the 2008 Presidential campaigning. The panel indicated this is a grassroots year and maybe the last year of top-down politics. They spoke about how Obama using web 2.0 tools has given the grassroot a way to use their power to affect this election. One of the most effective has been the Caucuses. They explained how he has put 150,000 grassroot voters on the ground in Texas. The web 2.0 tools has created both the money effort but just as important the way to organize and give the grassroots a voice. Thet discussed how Obama understood how to energize the grassroot voter and Clinton ignored it and this would be the major blunder of 2008.

What are your thoughts about Grassroot 2008.

"I've just never understood why, just because you're a member of a party, you have special rights. That's not the civics that I learned in junior high school, and if Ralph Nader wants to run, good luck to him." - Mayor Bloomberg

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has added more fuel to the fire with his latest comments in regards to Ralph Nader's announcement on Sunday that he is running for president. Bloomberg declared there's no such thing as a spoiler and said time is running out for third-party contenders to get into the race.

"This business of Ralph Nader being a spoiler -- you know, in any three-way race, two of the three are going to be spoilers," Bloomberg said. "Come on. Everybody's got a right to do it -- you're not spoiling anything."

"If people want to vote for you, let them vote for you, and why shouldn't they?" he added.

Michael H. Drucker
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Nader Launches Presidential Bid

Ralph Nader today threw his hat into the 2008 Presidential ring. Nader announced his candidacy on NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert.

I worked on his last campaign. But I think he would be a better advisor for organizing the new youth of the Obama wave in the issues of the 21st Century.

Use the above link for his website.

Michael H. Drucker
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Sunday, February 17, 2008

OBAMA ROBBED IN NY

Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly under recorded in several congressional districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said today

Use the above link to read the entire article.

Michael H. Drucker
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Superdelegates get campaign cash

Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.

"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.

About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.

Obama's political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.

Clinton's political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.

I think the original reason for the Superdelegates may be outdated. The DNC's option to not do winner-take-all policy causes the possibility of a convention fight. If there is no viable independent or third-party candidates, we need to determine how to bring the 30%-40% independents into the process. Open voting so all eligible votes take part is the answer.

What do you think?

Michael H. Drucker
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Incomplete Grade

The following is an opinion peice from one of this nations true centrists, Jack Uldrich, former chair of the Independence Party of Minnesota.

Here is his commentary:

Last weekend my neighbor offered me four tickets to attend the Barack Obama rally in Minneapolis. Although I'm a longtime member of the Independence Party, my wife and I took our two children and joined 20,000 people to hear the dynamic young presidential candidate.

In terms of rhetoric, we were not disappointed. My spine tingled as Obama began his speech by recalling the legendary words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and framing his candidacy in terms of the "fierce urgency of now."

I was even more moved when he told the audience that he would tell people "not what they wanted to hear, but what they needed to hear."

"Yes," I said to myself, "that's precisely what's required."

Obama then followed this statement by claiming that he alone had the courage to go into Detroit and tell the automobile industry that it needed to increase fuel-efficiency standards to 35 miles per gallon.

"Perhaps Obama is different," I thought. This was in spite of the fact that earlier in his speech he had already promised that by the end of his first term, every American would have health insurance, every child under 5 would have access to early education, and that he would successfully cap America's carbon dioxide emissions.

I could hardly believe it, but I was on the verge of being swayed by Obama.

Now, I figured, he was going to tell us that if his administration hoped to accomplish these goals, we -- the citizens -- needed to be part of the solution.

Unfortunately, no great call to action came. Not one of his promises was followed by a concrete example of what we could do to help address these enormous challenges. In short, Obama told his audience only what we wanted to hear.

To be fair, none of the candidates has yet leveled with the American public about its culpability in contributing to the health care crisis and global climate change. But I sense Obama is setting up himself and his supporters for failure unless he gets serious about confronting the American public with the costs and personal sacrifices required to achieve his compelling vision of the future.

I remain open to voting for Obama -- just as I am open to John McCain or Michael Bloomberg (should he decide to run) -- but I want a leader who doesn't simply inspire me, but calls me to action. I suspect a great many other independents feel the same.

Another commentary from the Hankster:

What the left/liberal bloggers are saying is they can't REALLY trust Obama to get us out of Iraq (Hillary is given a pass on this issue), and they're not sure where he stands on government surveillence (Wouldn't that be #2 on the Dem party platform after getting out of Iraq?? But I digress.....) Apparently Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas grumbled that "the usual D.C. consulting crowd" was advising Obama to run a "safe race."

Brad Plumer goes on to say that "Of course, irking the major bloggers won't sink Obama's campaign. And he still has ample support both from midsized blogs and many blog readers - he consistently does well in Daily Kos and MoveOn straw polls."

Though I agree that the Big Blogs aren't the end of the story and as in all establishment venues, it's the Daily Kos and MDD, Open Left, etc. that have the standing, there does appear to be the same establishment/grassroots split in the blogosphere as we have everywhere else.

I'm an independent and as such in New York, I have no vote in the primaries that are taking place. I don't know that I would endorse Barack Obama unless he asked me to (Which he has not. And I didn't receive The Memo....) and unless he had some pretty compelling arguments.

One argument might be that he recognizes independents by name (Obama has yet to acknowledge endorsements of significant independent leaders in California like independentvoice.org's Jim Mangia, or Chicago's David Cherry of Illinois Independent Voters, or South Carolina's Independence Party's Wayne Griffin. In Missouri, independents like Barbara Woodruff put Obama over the top and raised the possibility that he might win the election based on independent voters. )

And he should talk concretely about our issues (Like open primaries, initiative and referendum, and other political reforms) when he claims our support.

That said, I don't like the politics of Daily Kos and Markos Moulitsas. Kos wants to be a vote broker for a supposed liberal voting bloc. Kos is living proof that the Amercian left is a calcified comodity of the Democratic Party that can be consumed like this morning's latte. (NOTE to Markos: The Liberal Movement has expired, please check your credentials at the door.)

The 2008 difference is that there's a real independent movement underway... A movement that Barack Obama and David Axelrod and other Dem strategists should pay very close attention to.

The Netroots are not alone. Compare the black Dem establishment. As Lenora Fulani put it yesterday: {A]ll of New York's black members of Congress backed Hillary and helped produce her highest percentage of the black vote anywhere in the country - 37 percent. In Harlem, the seat of the black establishment, represented by Congressman Charles Rangel, Hillary beat Obama by 7½ points. Rev. Al Sharpton remained neutral, managing to avoid getting caught in the crossfire between the insurgent and establishment camps.

We are in a fight in this country between the establishment (the elites) and the grassroots (everybody else). There's nothing in the blogosphere or in technology, in Harlem, or in Obama's campaign, that is inherently independent or forward-looking. That's up to us the people. The ability of the Obama campaign to connect with the independent movement will depend on the Obama campaign's ability to connect with independent voters, not their ability to read political polls.

I'm not surprised that Kos doesn't care about this fight and settles for "Dems Uber Alles". And don't you be surprised either when Kos and Charlie Rangel start saying we have to elect Hillary in order to beat Bush -- even if Bush is not running. Hey, you gotta have something to be against to win an election, right? Right. Except it's 2008. And we ain't yesterday's fools. -NH

P.S. -- Sen. Obama, if you want us, come get us. Don't be distant!

What do you think about the candidates outreach to independents?

Michael H. Drucker
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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Super Delegates

The Democratic Party has two types of delegates: Pledged and Superdelegates.

Out of a total 4,049 delegates, 3,253 are pledged. A pledged delegate is elected or chosen on the state and local level by a primary or caucus.

Superdelegates comprise 796 out of the total 4,049 delegates. Superdelegates are usually Democratic members of Congress, Governors, Democratic National Committee members and party leaders (former Presidents and Vice Presidents).

This means Hillary, Obama, Bill, Dean, etc. get to vote twice. They vote as a citizen in their local state and then at the convention as a Superdelegate.

I do not think this is right.

What do you think?

Michael H. Drucker
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Internet Voting

It’s Super Tuesday, perhaps the most critical day for the presidential election until the general elections this fall. And some voters abroad will have the option to cast their ballot online. That's online, as in over the Internet. Are we really ready for this?

Use the above link to read the article and view the comments.

Michael H. Drucker
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Monday, February 4, 2008

Voting Machine Risks in 2008

Six of the 15 states that hold presidential primaries on Super Tuesday are at “high” risk for having election results affected by electronic voting machine malfunction or tampering, according to a new report by Common Cause and the Verified Voting Foundation. Twenty-four states hold presidential primaries or caucuses on Feb. 5, but only 15 of them will use voting machines to select candidates.

In all, a troubling 17 states that will hold their presidential primaries over the next several months, including two that have already held them, are at high risk for voting machine mishaps that could change election results, the report shows. The states were given that ranking for using electronic voting machines that do not produce an independent, voter-verifiable paper record that could be used in the case of a recount or audit.

In addition, the report found 17 states to be at “medium” risk for having election results affected by voting machine failure. This classification was given to states that use voting systems that deploy paper ballots or produce a voter-verifiable paper record of each voter’s vote, but do not require audits.

The report found six states to be at “low” risk for a voting meltdown because those states use voting systems that deploy paper ballots or produce voter verifiable paper records, as well as require audits.

CLICK HERE for full report.

Michael H. Drucker
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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Protect Your Vote


Every American citizen has the right to register, vote, and have that vote count. People For the American Way Foundation's nonpartisan Election Protection program is designed to help safeguard that right.

Help us ensure that everyone's right to vote is protected -- be our eyes and ears on the ground. If you feel your rights have been violated, or see something that you feel might be a violation of someone else's rights, please call Election Protection toll-free: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683).

The Election Protection Hotline will be staffed by attorneys at several regional call centers around the country. We are working arduously to prevent problems in 2008 before they happen, meeting with county election officials around the country to assess how things are working in their jurisdictions, and to identify and try to correct the weak spots. Finding out about problems on Tuesday will be critical in determining what work needs to done to protect voters' rights in November.

Thank you for your help in spreading the word about 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

Michael H. Drucker
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Super Tuesday Primer

There are contests of some sort in 24 states.

On the Republican side, some 900 delegates are up for grabs. On the Democratic side, nearly half of the 4,050 needed to win the nomination are at stake.

Here's the state-by-state outlook. The delegate numbers reflect the total available on Tuesday. In some cases, additional delegates will be awarded later:

Alabama

GOP—-Open primary, 45 delegates, winner-take-all if candidate gets more than 50 percent statewide, otherwise proportional by congressional district. Most recent poll shows southerner Huckabee with three-point edge over McCain, and nobody else even close. Giuliani vote never got out of mid-single digits in Alabama, so his endorsement of McCain might not mean much.

DEM-Open primary, 52 delegates, proportional. Clinton has led in polls for more than a year. But in the most recent she had only a 3 percentage point lead over Obama. The state has a large black population, 26.3 percent, which could help Obama in the wake of his first-place finish in South Carolina.

Alaska

GOP— Caucuses, 26 delegates, proportional. No recent polling data and none of the candidates has paid much attention to the state.

DEM-Caucuses, 13 delegates, proportional. No recent polling data, and neither candidate has campaigned in the state.

Arizona

GOP — Closed primary, 50 delegates, winner-take-all. Look for big home-state win for McCain. Most recent poll had him up 17 points on second-place Romney.

DEM - Closed primary, 56 delegates, proportional. Most recent polling shows Clinton with a 37 percent-27 percent, lead over Obama. This is one of the states that Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy will campaign in for Obama in an effort to appeal to Hispanics, 29 percent of Arizona's population. Obama also has the support of Gov. Janet Napolitano.

Arkansas

GOP — Open primary, 31 delegates, proportional. Home-state win on tap for Huckabee, the state's former 10-year governor. December polls showed him near 60 percent, everybody else in single digits.

DEM -Open primary, 35 delegates, proportional. Clinton, the state's former first lady, leads in all polls by margins of at least 20 percent.

California

GOP - Closed primary, 170 delegates, winner-take-all in congressional districts. One of the Super Tuesday big kahunas that could help make it a big day for McCain. Two recent polls put him in front by 13-point and eight-point margins over Romney. Nether poll gave Huckabee much hope in California. By pulling a sizeable slice of the projected Giuliani vote, McCain could win by a solid margin and take home a boatload of delegates. Romney is hoping to break even. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's endorsement of McCain will help him.

DEM - Modified closed primary in which "unaffiliated" voters can vote in the Democratic contest, 370 delegates, proportional. A new Rasmussen poll shows Obama closing on Clinton: She got 43 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for Obama. California is another state where Kennedy will be used to appeal to Hispanics, 39 percent of the state's population.

Colorado

GOP — Presidential preference poll at closed caucuses, 43 delegates to be awarded at February and March county conventions. One of few Super Tuesday states where polls show Romney in the lead. A mid-January survey had him up by a 43 percent to 24 percent margin over McCain. Huckabee was third at 17 percent. Potentially key western state in general election. Democrats, who hold their national convention in Denver, have won it only twice (1964 and 1992) in last 54 years.

DEM - Closed caucuses, 55 delegates, proportional. This is one of the few Super Tuesday states in which Obama has led in recent polls - 34-32 percent over Clinton in a Jan. 28 Mason-Dixon survey. Colorado is one of the states the Democratic Party is targeting in the fall election, in part because of its 19.7 percent Hispanic population and the Democratic trend in recent state elections.

Connecticut

GOP — Closed primary, 27 delegates, winner-take-all. Seems headed for big win for McCain. Mid-January poll had him at 39 percent, 28 points better than third-place Romney. McCain also could get boost from endorsement from Giuliani, who was running second in Connecticut with 16 percent.

DEM - Closed primary, 48 delegates, proportional. Clinton has long led the polls here, but a new Rasmussen poll shows the two Democrats tied, 40-40 percent. Clinton leads by four points among women, Obama leads by six among men.

Delaware

GOP — Closed primary, 15 delegates, winner-take-all. No recent public polls, but surveys taken late last year had Giuliani, now out of the race, running first at 37 percent, with McCain second at 14, Fred Thompson third at 13 and Romney fourth at 10. Giuliani's endorsement of McCain could be significant.

DEM-Closed primary, 15 delegates, proportional. No recent polling is available, but last fall Clinton led the entire Democratic field with 41 percent.

Georgia

GOP - Open primary, 69 delegates, statewide winner-take-all for 30 delegates, congressional district winner-take-all for 39 delegates. Huckabee counting on Southern win but recent polls show McCain momentum and Romney in striking distance and Huckabee trailing.

DEM - Open primary, 87 delegates, proportional. A new Public Policy Polling survey shows Obama with a healthy lead over Clinton, 51-41 percent. The poll shows Obama getting 73 percent of the state's black vote, but trailing Clinton 56 percent-36 percent among white voters.

Idaho

GOP - Open primary/caucus, 29 delegates, 23 selected on statewide proportional basis from primary vote, six selected at June state convention. No recent polling data. Heavy Mormon population could help Romney.

DEM - Open caucus , 18 delegates, proportional. The latest polls show Obama with a slight lead, 33-31 percent over Clinton. But one in five Democrats remain undecided, and another 15 percent backed Edwards before he dropped out.

Illinois

GOP - Open primary, 67 delegates, including 10 selected at June state convention. Actually, two GOP presidential contests on Illinois ballot. In one, candidate names will appear. Results of that have no bearing on delegate allocation. In second race, the one that counts, names of delegates (and the candidate they represent) appear on ballot in contest for the 57 delegates up for grabs Tuesday. Most recent poll has McCain at 31 percent and Romney second at 20 percent.

DEM - Open primary, 153 delegates, proportional. Obama has a commanding lead over Clinton in his home state. A recent poll by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found Obama leading 51-22 percent over Clinton, including a 60-11 percent lead among men and a 44-30 percent lead among women.

Kansas

GOP - Feb. 9.

DEM - Closed caucuses, 32 delegates, proportional. Obama's campaign is confident about his chances of winning the caucuses here. He is the son of an African father and a white mother from Kansas. "We're family," he said in visit to state. Recently endorsed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Massachusetts

GOP - Primary open to Republicans and Independents, 40 delegates, proportional. Should be a home-turf win for former Massachusetts Gov. Romney. Recent poll has him at 50 percent, 21 points better than McCain.

DEM - Modified primary in which unaffiliated voters can vote, 93 delegates, proportional. Kennedy's endorsement of Obama is likely to enhance the Illinois senator's chances. Prior to the Kennedy endorsement, Obama trailed Clinton, 37-25 percent. But the most recent polls show Clinton's lead shrinking, 43-37 percent, over Obama.

Minnesota

GOP - Open caucuses, 38 delegates, complicated process for selection delegates, all of whom are unbound. Presidential preference poll - which does not affect delegate allocation - will be held at caucuses. Some or all of 24 congressional districts could be allocated at caucuses. No recent polling data. Back in September, a survey showed Giuliani at 27 percent, McCain at 22 percent, Thompson at 16 percent and Romney at 5 percent. But Romney has pumped resources into the state and could do well.

DEM - Open caucuses, 72 delegates, proportional. Clinton has a comfortable lead, 47 percent-22 percent, over Obama, in recent polls. But Minnesota is one of the states Obama plans to visit before the voting Tuesday.

Missouri

GOP - Open primary, 55 delegates, winner-take-all. Recent poll gave McCain a just-beyond-the-margin-of-error lead of six points over second-place Huckabee, who is counting on evangelical Christians. Romney was third at 21. Winner-take-all rules make this a big win for whoever takes it.

DEM - Open primary, 72 delegates, proportional. This is one of the states the Clinton campaign has targeted. It was the first state former President Clinton visited following the South Carolina primary. Clinton has been leading in polls, by 12 percentage points in the latest. But Obama has the backing of Sen. Claire McCaskill, a popular figure in her home state.

Montana

GOP - Closed caucuses, 22 delegates, winner-take-all for 19 at-large delegates, congressional district winner-take-all for 3 delegates. Mid-December poll showed bunched pack with Huckabee, Giuliani, Romney and Thomson, in that order, within four points of each other. McCain was fifth, but expect a reshuffling with Thompson and Giuliani gone.

DEM - June 3

New Jersey

GOP - Primary open to Republicans and independents, 49 delegates, winner-take-all. A state where Giuliani's withdrawal could have a major impact. Three January polls showed he was a real contender in New Jersey. In one, he led McCain by a 34 percent to 18 percent margin with Romney third at 11. In the other two, McCain led with 29 percent and Giuliani was second at 26 and 25. Romney scored no better than 11 percent in any of the polls, making a Tuesday win for him a long shot.

DEM - Modified primary in which unaffiliated voters can vote, 107 delegates, proportional. Clinton is leading in most polls, some by margins of 17 percentage points. She also has the backing of Gov. Jon Corzine and Sen. Bob Menendez. Hispanic voting will be important in New Jersey, where the Latino population is 15.6 percent. But so will the votes of African Americans, who make up 14.5 percent of the state's population, and they could go overwhelmingly to Obama.

New Mexico

GOP - June 3

DEM - Closed primary, 26 delegates, proportional. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who served in the Clinton cabinet, is under pressure to endorse Clinton. Before ending his own presidential campaign, Richardson led in the polls in his home state, 44-17 percent over Clinton. Hispanic votes are the key. Forty-four percent of the state's population is Latino, one of the reasons the Obama campaign is bringing in Kennedy.

New York

GOP - Closed primary, 98 delegates, winner-take-all. Surveys indicate potential big win for McCain. He led in three of four January polls, with Giuliani second in each. Romney's totals varied from 9 to 19 percent. McCain could clinch the state by picking up a healthy proportion of former Giuliani backers.

DEM - Closed primary, 232 delegates, proportional. This is a chance for Clinton to pile up delegates with a big win in her home state. The latest polls show her with a 56-28 percent lead over Obama. But analysts will look post-Super Tuesday to see how well Obama did in his rival's home state.

North Dakota

GOP - Closed caucus, 23 delegates, proportional. No recent public polls.

DEM - Open caucus, 13 delegates, proportional. There are no recent polls, and the candidates have paid scant attention to the state.

Oklahoma

GOP - Closed primary, 38 delegates, 23 winner-take-all statewide, 15 winner-take-all by congressional district. Huckabee is counting on an Oklahoma win. Mid-December poll gave him solid 12-point lead on second-place McCain. Romney was at 9 percent.

DEM - Closed primary, 38 delegates, proportional. Clinton has been the leader in polls for months, the latest showing her with a 34-15 percent lead over Obama. In those polls, however, Edwards typically ran third, and winning over his supporters could boost Obama. It also would be a test of how well Obama can do with white voters. The state's is 72.1 percent white, with a black population of 7.8 percent and Hispanic 6.9 percent.

Tennessee

GOP - Open primary, 52 delegates, proportional. Former home state Sen. Thompson had one-point edge on Huckabee prior to dropping out. Huckabee now the favorite but recent polls showed McCain momentum.

DEM - Open primary, 68 delegates, proportional. The latest polls show Clinton leading 34 percent-20 percent over Obama. This was the first state Clinton visited after losing the South Carolina primary to Obama. Former Vice President Al Gore's endorsement would boost either candidate, but so far, Gore has avoided taking sides, even with the wife of the man he served as vice president.

Utah

GOP - Primary open to Republicans and Independents, 33 delegates, winner-take-all. Romney is prohibitive favorite in heavily Mormon state.

DEM - Modified primary in which unaffiliated voters can vote, 23 delegates, proportional. Recent polls show Clinton leading Obama, 37-22 percent.

West Virginia

GOP - State convention, 27 delegates, winner-take-all. No recent polling but close three-way race possible.

DEM - May 13.

Michael H. Drucker
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