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by BooMan
If you are a total geek, you can look at the delegate selection process for Democrats Abroad. The short version is that Obama crushed Clinton in the voting 65.6%-32.7% but only earned 2.5 delegates to her two. He'll probably pick up a couple of extra delegates when they have their convention in April. Possible headlines?
Obama wins 11th consecutive contest. Meanwhile, keeping with international sources, The Guardian reports that the Obama campaign wants a concession.
Barack Obama's campaign, riding a wave of 10 straight victories in the contest for the Democratic nomination after wins in Wisconsin and Hawaii, today urged Hillary Clinton to bow to the inevitable and accept defeat. How do you pronounce 'Plouffe'? Here's some understatement from the Brookings Institute:
While Clinton can ask the party to wait until March 4, she cannot hope to prolong the verdict for an additional seven weeks until her next bastion—Pennsylvania, on April 22—unless the March 4 results indicate that she has halted Obama’s surge. Meanwhile, Joe Klein went to Doha, Qatar and found the Muslim world intrigued by Obama but mostly just exhausted.
The final speaker, a charismatic religious leader from Egypt, didn't want to talk about the next President at all. He wanted to talk about the problems of Islamic youth. But, I pressed, what do you want from the next President? "Change," he said, innocently, "and hope ... for the future." Of course, Klein adds:
The distress was deeper than exhaustion. Many of the Muslim delegates seemed stunned, finally, by the rush of history unleashed by the Bush Administration. "Everything the United States has favored is now radioactive, especially democracy," said Rami Khouri, a Lebanese journalist. The Administration had pushed for elections in places like the Palestinian territories where the essential components of democracy—a free press, a free economy, the rule of law—did not exist. Religious parties had won, or gained momentum, in most of these elections, and the U.S. had backtracked, refusing to accept the Hamas victory in the Palestinian territories, re-embracing autocrats like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. "Our indigenous democratic reformers," Khouri said, "are in retreat across the region." They should not expect any miracles in the near future. Democrats are going to embrace realpolitik in the interest of stability. We don't have a better option at the moment. If there will be any positive movement, it will have to be on the Israeli/Palestine conflict, not on democratization. Bush's attempt was premature, sloppy, and insincere. Our first priority is now to shore up our alliances and get out of Iraq without it causing a regional conflagration or a crippling disruption of energy supplies.
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