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The Democratic primaries are clearly over. Barack Obama today took the lead in superdelegates leading Clinton 267 to Clinton’s 265, thus taking the lead in the only metric in which Senator Clinton had held a narrow lead. Here’s more:
ABC News’ Karen Travers Reports: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has […]

The Hill reports on how Obama slipped into the House chambers today, and received a tremendous reception befitting the Democratic presidential nominee:
Obama, increasingly looking like the Democratic presidential nominee, strode into the House chamber just before 11 a.m. as the House was beginning a series of votes. Obama, who was greeted with hugs and backslaps, […]

MSNBC just announced that Congressman Brad Miller (D-NC) has announced his support for Barack Obama, bringing his total to 1851 total delegates (including 261 Superdelegates), according to MSNBC’s tally.
John Edwards is going to be interviewed tomorrow morning on the Today show–raising anticipation that he might endorse Obama.

I’ve been amused by the Clinton campaign’s recent desire to throw out the results of the Democratic primaries and argue that Democrats should pick the candidate who happens to be leading in Gallup head to head polls in May. Oh yes, and who could forget that Florida and Michigan’s votes should suddenly be counted […]

This is huge:

Saying he believes Barack Obama is the best candidate to fight for working people, former U.S. Rep. David Bonior of Mt. Clemens endorsed the Illinois senator’s run for the presidency this morning, adding that he has shown the fight he needs to win in November.
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Bonior, who ran former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ […]

Here’s the link to Time’s article on the Democratic nominee for President.
The article provides a revealing look at Obama’s general election strategy–which will include visits to NON-primary states in the coming weeks:
The superdelegate push has already begun. Campaign strategist David Axelrod said on the flight to Chicago that the message to them was, “Read the […]

Howard Fineman of Newsweek is reporting that the Obama campaign will declare victory following Oregon’s primary on May 20th. At that point, Obama will have won the majority of all delegates, and no Democratic presidential candidate who was done that has ever been denied the nomination. Here’s more:
“The die is cast,” campaign manager […]

Following Obama’s remarkable victory in North Carolina and near-win in Indiana, the media narrative today is clear–Obama is close to wrapping up the Democratic nomination.
George Stephanopolous said this morning on GMA that the “Fight is over,” following comments last night from Tim Russert proclaiming that Obama was the nominee.
As the NYT notes today–Obama now […]

Hillary Clinton went negative (again), launching a last minute attack on Obama today, hoping to bamboozle voters into voting for her because of her gas tax holiday gimmick (which would not only give the average resident less than $30 for the whole summer, but could hurt our roads and bridges and cost Americans who work […]

It appears Obama has rediscovered the energy and message that initially drove him to victory in Iowa and the thirty (30) states he’s won thus far–watch this speech through the closing (5:00) part of the speech, where he delivers a brilliant defense of his patriotism:

Obama’s surging now in national polling–and if he can keep up […]