The latest Zogby poll in North Carolina has Obama ahead of Hillary by a whopping 16 percent. Overall the Real Clear politics poll average has the Illinois Senator winning by 8 percent.
The biggest blow to Hillary's chances comes from the endorsement by Joe Andrews, the former head of the DNC under Bill Clinton:
While the pundits, never missing an opportunity to be wrong, are enraptured by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the party has already begun a powerful and profound movement of superdelegates to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Today, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrews, who served during the Clinton presidency, is switching from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to Obama. Several major Clinton fundraisers have made the switch and more than a thousand Clinton donors have now donated to Obama.
Andrews has major influence in Indiana.
In an excellent front-page story last Friday in The Hill, it was noted that a large number of leading Edwards supporters, now totaling more than four dozen, plus at least nine members of Congress who supported Edwards, have moved to Barack.
The pundit class doesn't get it, though they will be forced to by events. In the coming primaries Hillary is shamelessly pandering to voters with the gas tax, a true elitist view as it suggests that voters can be fooled. Not to be outdone, the elitist pundits similarly talk about what a "brilliant" tactic this is. Wrong again. Voters are not stupid.
This is kind of laughable. A Clinton endorsement touted by the her campaign blows up in her face:
Last November, the Clinton campaign issued this following release:
The Clinton Campaign today announced the endorsement of former Democratic National Committee Chair Joe Andrew [...]
Andrew became the youngest DNC chair in party history when he took the reins in 1999, after five years as Indiana Democratic Party Chair. Under Andrew, the DNC rose out of debt, implemented new technologies and grassroots mobilization efforts, and raised more than $225 million.
Andrew is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of The Blue Fund, a mutual fund which invests in companies meeting standards of social responsibility, environmental sustainability, community participation and respect for human rights.
He is currently a partner with the law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in Washington, DC in the Corporate and Securities, Venture Capital and Public Law & Policy Strategies practice groups.
"Joe was a strong leader who put the Democratic Party on the right path,” Clinton said. "I'm honored to have his support."
Let's see if the Clinton mob try to smear Andrews:
Noting that Clinton surrogate James Carville likened New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to "Judas" after Richardson endorsed Obama, Andrew launched a blistering preemptive strike:
"They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite. I will be branded as disloyal, power-hungry, but most importantly, they will use the exact words that Republicans used to attack me when I was defending President Clinton."
Andrew, a superdelegate, cited Clinton's push for a gas tax holiday as "the straw that broke the camel's back" in his defection, but Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said he did not expect a stampede of superdelegates to Obama's side over the issue. "I don't think it's hurting us," Wolfson told reporters.
Hillary will lose despite her, and her supporters', dirty tricks:
North Carolina's attorney general has put a halt to automated phone calls that told blacks to register to vote after the state's registration deadline for Tuesday's primary had passed.
The suspiciously timed calls were eventually linked to the left-leaning Women's Voices Women Vote group, which states as its mission signing up female voters to boost Democratic turnout.
Roy Cooper, the North Carolina AG, said this week he had put a stop to the calls, which spurred allegations that the women's group was trying to confuse black voters, who overwhelmingly support Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The calls urged people to register, even though the deadline for the primary was April 11.
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