North Carolina's Dem delegates
Every delegate will count in the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic president nomination.
The N.C. Democratic Party spells out how our state's process works.
In short: The party will select 134 delegates and 19 alternates to the Democratic National Convention.
Of the 134 delegates, 77 are apportioned by congressional district and 26 at-large. These will be allocated proportionately according to the results of the May 6 primary. In addition, 12 pledged delegates will be party leaders and elected officials.
Then there are 19 unpledged, or "super," delegates who are free to support the candidate of their choice. They are:
The governor, seven Democratic members of Congress, nine members of the Democratic National Committee and two who will be selected at the state party convention in June.
WRAL reports some early commitments by those folks.
The North Carolinian who controls the most delegates, of course, is John Edwards. He won 26 in caucuses and primaries before he dropped out of the race, according to CNN's scorecard.
He hasn't released them to either Obama or Clinton, which leads me to think he's negotiating for something. Strictly on principle, he'd endorse Obama as a more likely change agent and the candidate closer to Edwards' left edge of the party. But this is politics, so we'll see what he does. But I'd say he'd have to get a heckuva sweet deal from Clinton to back her.
It would be a shame if, after so many ordinary people voted in primaries and participated in caucuses all over the country, the contest for unpledged delegates came down to personal persuasion by whatever means at the convention itself, but this is such an extraordinary campaign that anything could happen.
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But this is politics, so we'll see what he does. But I'd say he'd have to get a heckuva sweet deal from Clinton to back her.* Doug
And Hillary just fired her campaign manager today. No doubt Edwards will apply for the job?
Meanwhile President OBama staff said today, that Hillary former campaign manager could pick up his unemployment checks at their Campaign HeadQuarters.
Posted on February 10, 2008 11:07 PM
NBC/NJ's Athena Jones has confirmed that Hillary Clinton met secretly with John Edwards Thursday at his home in Chapel Hill to make her pitch for his endorsement. The encounter was first reported earlier today by The Page. NBC News subsequently confirmed that Barack Obama will make the same pilgrimage today to visit with JRE.
Updated!!!!----From the Rumor Spin---"We make the National Inquirer look like a Pre-K retarded learner"
" Black man beated and arrested at Edwards Planation"
A spokensperson for the Orange County Sheriff department said a Black man driving a Rental Cadillac was beated by a private security firm at former Senator John Edwards compound late this afternoon and a citizens arrest preform on him at the compound. A unknown source at the Edwards compound said the security firm was a gift from Senator Hillary Clinton after her visit to the compound last Thursday to seek his endorsement for President. She offer the security protection to the Edwards campaign since the Senator had dropped out from the race and had none.
A spokensperson for the Secret Service said they could not comment on the story, since they were guarding all three candates at the time.
A neighbor of the Edwards, Rufus T. Jones the 4 th, said " I saw the black dude drive up in the Cadiliac and two guards from the TV show Gladiators jerk him out of the Caddy and started kicking him saying " Who is going to win the presidental race Dude?" I ran for cover and a truckload of dudes pass by me with the name BlackWater written on their SUV's racing toward the scene.
Posted on February 11, 2008 6:14 PM