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US Elections

Democrats Concerned Over Campaign Trail

Posted on: April 28, 2008

The growing hostile fight for the Democratic Presidential nomination is making African Americans and wealthy liberals feel concerned about the sharp line of attack against Senator Barack Obama by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Democrats feel that the antagonistic approach adopted by Sen. Clinton would do irreversible harm to the party.

Clinton’s victory in the Pennsylvania mainly uncovered a quandary for the party. Clinton’s supporters may be convinced that she can only win the working class white voters, which the Democratic nominee needs in the general elections, but many black leaders are of the view that Clinton’s nomination, handed to her by super delegates, would result in a devastating breach with black voters. That fear has led even some black Democrats who are officially neutral in the race, such as Clyburn, to speak out. Clyburn blamed Clinton and her husband on Friday of marginalizing black voters and opening a rift between her campaign and a black Democratic base, which strongly supported Bill Clinton’s presidency. The debate blazed up again when Bill Clinton suggested this week that Obama’s campaign had played “the race card” after the former president compared the candidate to Jesse Jackson after the South Carolina primary.

Both campaigns sought Friday to tamp down a race controversy. However, there are some indications, which show that the anger annoyance voiced by some black people is stated to extend to the Democratic donor base. The Campaign-finance records released this week indicate that most of the Clinton’s early supporters migrated to Obama in March, after he achieved 11 straight victories.

Yet her margin of victory, by around 215,000 votes, still leaves her about 300,000 short of her long-term strategic goal of equaling Obama’s total number of votes nationally, counting Florida but not Michigan, where Obama wasn’t on the ballot.

Clinton’s victory at Pennsylvania, by just under 10 percentage points, gives her, by current estimates, a nine-delegate gain, leaving her still lagging by at least 131 convention votes, according to the Associated Press.

The AP count last week showed Obama with 1,723.5 delegates to 1,592.5 for Clinton; 2,025 will be necessary to secure the nomination.

The next primary will be in North Carolina and Indiana on May 6. The two states together offer close to 158 delegates.

According to the polls, Obama has a good chance of sweeping majority of the delegates in North Carolina and same polls have revealed a tight contest in the state of Indiana.