It’s primary day in Kentucky and Oregon. While the population of both states is 90 percent white, there will likely be a split decision.
Barack Obama is favored in Oregon, where 75,000 packed Portland’s Waterfront Park for a campaign rally. Hillary Clinton is expected to hit it out of the ballpark in Kentucky, home of the Louisville Slugger.
David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University, said:
With the nominating contest winding down, it’s unusual – to say the least – to have two states’ polls literally poles apart. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a disparity in a presidential candidate’s popularity from state to state.
So while the media pick over the presumed remains of Clinton’s campaign, she remains defiant:
I believe that with your help we will send a message to this country because right now more people have voted for me than have voted for my opponent. More people have voted for me than for anybody ever running for president before. So we have a very close contest for votes, for delegates, and this is nowhere near over. None of us is going to have the number of delegates we’re going to need to get to the nomination, although I understand my opponent and his supporters are going to claim that.
The fact is we have to include Michigan and Florida — we cannot claim that we have a nominee based on 48 states, particularly two states that are so important for us to win in the fall.
Meanwhile, Obama tells Republicans to “lay off my wife” and the National Women’s Political Caucus wants everyone to lay off Clinton:
In a campaign where the mere mentioning of facts about race is often attacked as being racist, where is the outrage at the pervasive sexism in this campaign? Certainly not from Senator Obama, from his campaign nor from any major Democratic leaders - with the exception of Senator Barbara Milkulski who recently criticized the hostility of the media towards Senator Clinton. The Democratic Party leadership would not tolerate similar attacks if they had to do with race.
NWPC President Lulu Flores added:
We demand that the leaders of the Democratic Party - Howard Dean, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid - censure Rep. Cohen and apologize on behalf of the party to Senator Clinton and to the women of America.
Are we there yet?
