Barack Obama won the Democratic caucuses in Guam that took place this Saturday. The contest was very close, the Times reports, with Obama receiving only seven more votes than his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Though Guamanians cannot vote in the general election, they do send eight delegates and five superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention. Two of the superdelegates were chosen by the outcome of the caucus, one is currently undecided and one supports Obama. Two of the remaining Guamanian superdelegates have previously declared themselves for Clinton.
Maureen Dowd devoted her column today to a discussion of Obama's attempts to endear himself to working-class whites. Dowd disscusses Obama's forays into local watering holes and impromptu pickup games with young basketball enthusiasts, and comments: "It must be hard for Obama, having applied all his energy over the years to rising above the rough spots in his background, making whites comfortable with him, striving to become the sophisticated, silky political star who looks supremely comfortable in a tux. Now he must go into reverse and stoop to conquer with cornball photo ops."
A new CBS/NY Times poll measures voters' reactions to Obama's handling of the recent debacles involving his ex-pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. According to the poll, 60 percent of all voters and 68 percent of Democratic primary voters approved of Obama's behavior.
Daily Kos weighed in on the poll results, saying: "It's crystal clear the so-called 'firestorm' was more in the minds of beltway bloviators (as well as conservative talking heads who have nothing else to talk about) than in the minds of the voters, some of whom would <gasp> never vote D in the first place. Others figure Obama was tested and passed."
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