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Oregon and Kentucky vote; nation yawns and rolls over

Posted by Kate Sheppard at 8:41 PM on 20 May 2008

Muckraker: Grist on Politics In case anyone's still paying attention, there were two more primaries today. Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent.

But Obama looks poised to win Oregon, and says he's reached the delegate threshold. Various media folks are reporting that he now has an "insurmountable advantage" in the race for the Democratic nomination, much like they said ... back in February. It's the Groundhog Day primary!

Clinton says she's still in it though, and will take her campaign to Montana, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico -- the only places that haven't yet voted. "I'm going to keep making our case until we have a nominee, whoever she may be," Clinton told fans in her victory rally in Louisville, Kentucky. She also vowed that she's the candidate "to turn the climate crisis into an energy revolution and create millions of new jobs."

Obama had his own environmental push in his remarks, delivered in Des Moines, Iowa:

Change is an energy policy that doesn't rely on buddying up to the Saudi royal family and then begging them for oil, an energy policy. Change is an energy policy that puts a price on pollution and makes the oil companies invest their record profits in clean, renewable sources of energy that will create millions of new jobs and leave our children a safer planet. That's what change is, Iowa.

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Or for those of us who can read energy plans:

"Obama does looks poised to win Oregon by 10 to 15 points, and again claims he's reached some new threshold.

Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent, a 35 point win.

However, neither has reached and neither can reach the threshold of 2025 - or (if on May 31 the DNC includes FL and MI - 2210) and so (as has been the case for some time), the Superdelegates will still need to decide this race to break that tie.

The race has been virtually tied for some time, with the momentum going first to Obama and since, since PA, to Clinton.

Obama says he's still in it though, and will take his campaign to Montana, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico -- the only places that haven't yet voted. "I'm going to keep making our victory laps in the media until the Superdelegates realize that they have to pick me" Obama told fans in his victory rally in Iowa, after winning Oregon.

Obama had his environmental push in his remarks, delivered in Des Moines, Iowa, where his dependence on ethanol to beat climate change is a bread and butter issue.

Clinton however vowed that she's actually the candidate "to turn the climate crisis into an energy revolution and create millions of new jobs", and that is backed up by her realistic plans to address the problem with real policy: as evidenced in this detailed side by side comparison between their two climate plans in What Should Superdelegate Al Gore Do? that shows that there is one candidate in this race that can formulate eco policy in the common good.

John McCain already vetoes every eco bill

by dotcommodity at 7:14 AM on 21 May 2008

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