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Polls are an oddity, no doubt about it.


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But that’s not what’s important. What’s important is this….

From the Associated Press:

DNC chairman under Bill Clinton: “Unite behind Obama”

By NEDRA PICKLER – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton switched his allegiance to Barack Obama on Thursday and urged fellow Democrats to end the bruising nomination fight.

“This has got to come to an end,” former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew told reporters in his hometown of Indianapolis just days before Tuesday’s crucial state primary. He said he planned to call all the other superdelegates he knows and encourage them to back Obama.

Bill Clinton appointed Andrew chairman of the DNC in 1999, and he led the party through the disputed 2000 presidential race before stepping down in 2001. Andrew endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton last year on the day she declared her candidacy for the White House.

In a lengthy letter explaining his decision, Andrew said he is switching his support because “a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue this process, and a vote to continue this process is a vote that assists (Republican) John McCain.”

“The ship is taking on water right now,” Andrew said at the news conference. “We need to patch those holes, heal the rift and go forward to beat John McCain.”

Asked for a response to Andrew’s decision, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said, “We support that Democratic process and think that every American should be able to weigh in and support the candidate of his or her own choosing.”

Andrew said the Obama campaign never asked him to switch his support, but he decided to do so after watching Obama’s handling of two issues in recent days. He said Obama took the principled stand in opposing a summer gas tax holiday that both Clinton and McCain supported, even though it would have been easier politically to back it. And he said he was impressed with Obama’s handling of the controversy surrounding his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Wright’s outspoken criticisms of the United States have threatened Obama’s candidacy. Obama initially refused to denounce his former pastor, but he did so this week after Wright suggested that Obama secretly agrees with him.

“He has shown such mettle under fire,” Andrew said in the interview. “The Jeremiah Wright controversy just reconfirmed for me, just as the gas tax controversy confirmed for me, that he is the right candidate for our party.”

Joe Andrew’s been there and knows these situations well. The damage being done to the party is a direct result of Hillary Clinton’s inability to accept the fact that she has lost this primary…

REFRESHER COURSE:

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
On 2008-04-23 10:13:19,
HILLARY WINS PENNSYLVANIA 55-45%

CLINTON WON 80 DELEGATES

OBAMA WON 66 DELEGATES

DELEGATE COUNT

PLEDGED
- OBAMA: 1714
- CLINTON: 1584

SUPERS
- OBAMA: 230
- CLINTON: 254

TOTALS
- OBAMA: 1944
- CLINTON: 1838

NEEDED TO WIN NOMINATION: 2025

HILLARY HAS TO WIN 70% OF REMAINING DELEGATES

HILLARY IS STILL AT LEAST 500,000 VOTES BEHIND IN THE POPULAR VOTE

55-44% - Hillary won by 215,948 votes. But she’s still broke and way behind in pledged delegates.

Meanwhile, John McCockroach is smiling ear to ear.