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busymom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:04 PM
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Obama campaign says
"it's a tie. 0 delegates and 0 delegates"
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jenmarie Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:06 PM
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1. Obama himself says
TAMPA - Barack Obama hinted during a Tampa fundraiser Sunday that if he's the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he'll seat a Florida delegation at the party's national convention, despite national party sanctions prohibiting it.

Obama also appeared to violate a pledge he and the other leading candidates took by holding a brief news conference outside the fundraiser. That was less than a day after the pledge took effect Saturday, and Obama is the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit Florida since then.

Obama and others have pledged not to campaign in Florida until the Jan. 29 primary except for fundraising, which is what he was doing in Tampa.

But after the fundraiser at the Hyde Park home of Tom and Linda Scarritt, Obama crossed the street to take half a dozen questions from reporters waiting there.

The pledge covers anything referred to in Democratic National Committee rules as "campaigning," and those include "holding news conferences."

Obama seemed unaware the pledge he signed prohibits news conferences. Asked whether he was violating it, he said, "I was just doing you guys a favor. … If that's the case, then we won't do it again."

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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/sep/30/obama-vows-do-whats-right/?news-breaking


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goldcanyonaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:06 PM
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2. Is it on his website? He posted that he won Nevada by posting the delegate count.
He's such a class act.
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