First Lady-in-waiting Michelle Obama was the guest co-host on ABC's The View Wednesday ...
Obama discusses a variety of topics ... including her fist bumps with her husband ... what Barack Obama did after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination ... and her reaction to the support Laura Bush gave her ...
~Papi Chulo~
Hillary Clinton officially suspended her campaign Saturday ... ending a 17-month challenge for the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Clinton urged her supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama to win the White House in November for the Democrats ...
Hillary Clinton: "We cannot let this moment slip away. I am standing with Sen. Obama to say, 'Yes, we can.'"
Clinton told her supporters while standing before the giant columns of the National Building Museum in Washington that electing Obama would achieve the same goals she was striving for (universal health care, a strong economy and the end of the war in Iraq) ...
Hillary Clinton: "We may have started on separate journeys, but today our paths have merged. When you hear people saying, or think to yourself, 'if only' or 'what if,' I say -- please don't go there. Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure that Sen. Obama is our next president, and I hope and pray that all of you will join me in that effort."
~Papi Chulo~
Barack Obama has officially garnered enough delegates, votes and support to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Barack Obama: "America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."
Hillary Clinton though hasn't conceded defeat ... or acknowledged that her rival has passed the 2,118 delegate count to secure the nomination ...
~Papi Chulo~
Barack Obama won the Montana Democratic primary on Tuesday night ... Obama received 57% of the vote ... compared to Hillary Clinton's 41% ... Obama won a majority of Montana's 16 pledged delegates ...
In South Dakota ... Clinton won her last contest ... Clinton received 56% of the vote ... compared to Obama's 44% ... Obama gained a big portion of South Dakota's 15 pledged delegates ... Obama received enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Barack Obama: "Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another. Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."
~Papi Chulo~
Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary ...
But rival Barack Obama is getting very close to the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Clinton won 2/3 of the vote ...
Hillary Clinton: "In the final assessment I ask you to consider these questions. Which candidate best represents the will of the people who voted in this historic election? Which candidate is best able to lead us to victory in November and which candidate is best able to lead our nation as our president in the face of unprecedented challenges at home and abroad?"
Obama gained 17 delegates in Puerto Rico ... leaving him 47 short of the 2,118 needed to seal the deal ...
~Papi Chulo~
On Saturday ... Democratic Party leaders agreed to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan at this summer's convention with half-votes ...
The decision raised the total delegates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton need to clinch the nomination to 2,118 ... Obama is just 66 delegates shy of sealing the deal ...
The final primaries of this Democratic primary season are held on Tuesday night ...
~Papi Chulo~
Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama in the Kentucky Democratic primary last night ...
Clinton had 58% of the vote ... while Obama had 38% ...
Over in Oregon ... Obama defeated Clinton in the state's primary ... Obama had 58% of the vote compared to Clinton's 42% ...
Clinton won at least 47 delegates in the two states ... while Obama won at least 32 ...
Obama moved within 100 delegates of the total needed to claim the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Barack Obama: "You have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination."
~Papi Chulo~
Barack Obama has secured the political endorsement from former rival John Edwards ... giving Hillary Clinton a crushing blow to her campaign ...
Edwards' endorsement Wednesday crushes the news of Clinton's win earlier this week in West Virginia (2-1 over Obama) ... It appeared as if her campaign had some sort of signs of life despite Obama's large delegate lead ...
Edwards based much of his campaign on the support of the working-class voters that Clinton has captured ... and Obama wants to woo ...
~Papi Chulo~
Hillary Clinton had an overwhelming victory during West Virginia's Democratic primary ... But it didn't close in the tremendous lead that her rival ... Barack Obama ... has in the Democratic presidential race ...
Clinton received 67% of the vote ... and 20 of the state's 28 pledged delegates ...
So far Obama's total delegate count is 1,876.5 to Clinton's 1,712 ... a Democratic candidate needs 2,026 to win the nomination ...
There are five primaries left ... and 189 pledged delegates left for grabs ... Clinton has almost no chance to catch up ...
The next contests are May 20 in Kentucky and Oregon ... Then June 1 in Puerto Rico ... and June 3 in Montana and South Dakota ...
~Papi Chulo~
Democratic presidential nominee hopeful Barack Obama is closer to clinching the title after Tuesday's primaries ...
Obama won a large victory in the North Carolina primary ... Rival Hillary Clinton won the Indiana primary Tuesday night ...
Obama leads in the delegate count ...
Barack Obama: "Because you still believe that this is our moment and our time to change America, tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."
Clinton pledged to support Obama if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee ... But vowed to continue her campaign through the remaining six Democratic contests ...
Hillary Clinton: "No matter what happens, I will work for the nominee of the Democratic Party because we must win in November. I am going to work my heart out in West Virginia and Kentucky this month, and I intend to win them in November in the general election."
The Democratic primary season ends on June 3 ...
~Papi Chulo~
Barack Obama claimed a small victory in the Guam Democratic caucuses over rival Hillary Clinton ...
Obama won 14 of the 21 districts in the remote US territory ...
After an all-night vote count ... Obama finished with 2,264 votes to 2,257 for Clinton ...
~Papi Chulo~
Hillary Clinton won a crucial state in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination ...
Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday taking 55% of the vote ... compared to Barack Obama's 45% when 85% of the returns were counted ...
Clinton won the vote of women, white men and blue-collar workers ...
The next primaries are in Indiana and North Carolina in two weeks ...
~Papi Chulo~
Barack Obama won the Mississippi Democratic primary on Tuesday ... Obama won 58% of the vote ... compared to Hillary Clinton's 40% ...
Obama won 90% of the Black vote ... but only 1/3 of the white vote ...
With just 33 delegates available in Mississippi ... the results haven't really changed the shape of the race ... So both candidates are looking onward to Pennsylvania in six weeks ...
~Papi Chulo~
Bill Clinton said Saturday that a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama joint ticket would be "almost unstoppable" ...
Bill Clinton: "She said yesterday and she said the day after her big wins in Texas and Ohio and Rhode Island that she was very open to that and I think she answered explicitly 'Yes' yesterday. I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he's brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small town and rural America that she's carried overwhelmingly, if you had those two things together she thinks it'd be hard to beat."
Clinton was speaking at a Mississippi campaign appearance ... Clinton believes that Obama would win the "urban areas and upscale voters" ... while his wife would claim "the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you'd have an almost unstoppable force" ...
Earlier in the week Hillary Clinton said that a joint ticket "may be where this is headed. But of course we have to decide who is on the top of ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me" ...
On Friday ... Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said that it was important for the winner of the Democratic nomination to offer the runner-up the running mate position ...
Obama called the joint ticket idea "premature" ...
Barack Obama: "You won't see me as a vice presidential candidate, you know, I'm running for president."
Now this is an idea that could actually work ... The Democratic party is so split in their decision ... and the split is so small ... To unite the party Clinton and Obama are going to have to team up ... particularly if the party wants to win the election in the fall ...
~Papi Chulo~