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As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama romanced major donors of Hillary Clinton in Washington, D.C. on Thursday evening, potential first lady Michelle Obama appeared in New York City to facilitate post-primary healing among members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and to appeal for their financial support. On the verge of the weekend's massive Gay Pride celebrations, she was the keynote speaker at the annual gala for the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council, the group that aims to advance LGBT priorities within the party.Preceded by warm remarks from Michelle Paterson, the First Lady of New York, and followed by DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Obama received a standing ovation from the overwhelmingly white, and presumably well-heeled, gay male crowd of approximately 175 people in the Starlight Room on the eighteenth floor of the Waldorf Astoria in East Midtown. A brief report on WNYC-FM this morning said the DNC estimates the event raised $1.3 million.Fresh off an appearance last week on ABC's "The View" and newly assigned with her own chief of staff, Obama delivered a solid, 17-minute speech that concentrated on her husband's record on LGBT issues, and his vision for the community's place in America, should he be elected president. She mentioned that June 26 was the fifth anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the state's anti-sodomy law, and she used the phrase, "from Selma to Stonewall," to connect the gay and civil rights movements."Barack is not new to the cause of the LGBT community," Obama said. "It has been a conviction of his career since he was first elected to public office." She listed gay-positive credentials like his work as a state senator to amend the Illinois Human Rights Act to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in areas like housing and employment, which passed in 2004, and his call as a U.S. Senator for a complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages and relieves states of any obligation to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.If elected, Obama said that her husband would reverse laws such as DOMA, end the prohibition against gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, advance stalled legislation to protect the LGBT community against hate crimes and workplace discrimination, and work to achieve equal rights for gay and lesbian families."Barack has made crystal clear his commitment to ensuring full equality for LGBT couples," she said. "That's why he supports robust civil unions. That is why he has said that the federal government should not stand in the way of the states that want to decide for themselves how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples, whether that means domestic partnerships, civil unions or civil marriage." She noted his opposition to the November ballot initiative in California that would overturn the recent court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.That Michelle Obama, currently in the midst of a much-hyped "makeover," would address a high-profile gay crowd is evidence not only of the political progress of the LGBT community in recent years, but also of the importance that Democratic candidates attach to this group of donors and voters. Although they did not receive the kind of attention showered on women, African Americans and the working class during the primary season, savvy politicians acknowledge the high levels of political involvement among self-identified LGBT people, a predominantly Democratic segment that, like many others, found itself torn between support for Obama and Clinton.Last November, a Hunter College Poll on the political behavior of lesbians, gays and bisexuals found that the group is more likely than the general population to be interested in and participate in politics and hold liberal views, and that nearly two-thirds of gay voters in the Democratic primary favored Clinton. That percentage seemed to decrease over the subsequent months as more LGBT voters became familiar with Barack Obama, as indicated by this Super Tuesday exit poll from New York, which shows support for the two candidates among gay voters as statistically indistinguishable from that of all voters.
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Added: September 4, 2008
READ MORE: http://thepage.time.com/Voters in the Lone Star state explain who they cast their primary ballots for and the reasons behind their choices
Author: TimeMagazine
Keywords: voters voting primary primaries presidential democrat Texas TIME Magazine
Added: May 15, 2008
Sergio Bendixen, Hillary Clinton's pollster and resident Latino expert, told the New Yorker after her win in New Hampshire that "the Hispanic voter...has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates," he started a firestorm of innuendo that has begun to shape how the media are covering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in the heavily Hispanic Western states. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1707221,00.htmlThere was a growing consensus during the Democratic primary season that Obama was going to struggle with Latino voters -- due to the exit polls, his race, and McCain's immigration stance. In fact, in that now-famous conference call in which Hillary Clinton indicated that she would be open to serving as Obama's running mate, that response was spurred by concern by New York Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D) that Obama was going to have trouble with Latinos. But it looks like that CW -- at least right now -- was wrong. In addition to our recent NBC/WSJ poll, which showed Hispanics breaking for Obama 62%-28%, a new survey of 800 Latino voters from 21 states finds that 60% of them plan to vote for Obama versus 23% for McCain. That is down considerably from the 40%-plus Bush received in 2004. It's no longer fair to say that Obama has a problem with Latino voters; McCain does. This was a case of conventional wisdom that was never based on fact, just semi-informed speculation based on primary exit polling and bad stereotypes of Latinos.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/17/1148076.aspxIn recent weeks, there has been a great deal of talk surrounding the supposed "brown-black divide" in the Clinton-Obama race for the Democratic nomination--the theory that Latino voters are biased against black candidates. There are several problems with this strange bit of political conventional wisdom. The first is that many Latinos are, in fact, black--about 5 percent of Latinos identify as black, and about 25 percent have some black ancestry. While racism against darker-skinned Latinos by lighter-skinned Latinos does exist, Latino identity is ethnic, not racial. So when we're talking about a "brown-black divide" between African Americans and Latinos, we are in some instances talking about a black-black divide.The second is that it isn't an accurate description of how Latinos actually vote. As Time's Gregory Rodriguez argues ("The Black-Brown Divide"): Nationwide, no fewer than eight black House members--including New York's Charles Rangel and Texas' Al Green--represent districts that are more than 25% Latino and must therefore depend heavily on Latino votes. And there are other examples. University of Washington political scientist Matt Barreto has begun compiling a list of black big-city mayors who have received large-scale Latino support over the past several decades. In 1983, Harold Washington pulled 80% of the Latino vote in Chicago. David Dinkins won 73% in New York City's mayoral race in 1989. And Denver's Wellington Webb garnered more than 70% in 1991, as did Ron Kirk in Dallas in 1995 and again in 1997 and '99. If he had gone back further, Barreto could have added longtime Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, who won a majority of Latino votes in all four of his re-election campaigns between 1977 and 1989.Rodriguez argues that the real reason Obama is not doing as well as Clinton among Latino voters is because he hasn't established the level of institutional support in the Latino community that Clinton presently enjoys--due, one might imagine, to her longer history as a national figure. Clinton did exceptionally well, and Obama somewhat badly, among Latinos in Nevada on January 19th. Whether this trend continues on February 5th or not is a debatable point, but there is no evidence to indicate that Latinos as a group predictably vote in a racist way.http://racerelations.about.com/b/2008/01/28/is-there-a-black-brown-divide.htmThe broadening of Obama's appeal for the nomination seen in Gallup's May 16-18 polling is fairly widespread, with the percentage favoring him increasing among most demographic categories of Democratic voters. However, as a result, certain groups that were already highly supportive of Obama for the nomination -- men, 18- to 29-year-olds, postgrads, and upper-income Democrats -- are now overwhelmingly in his camp. Obama is currently favored among these groups by a 2-to-1 margin, or better, over Clinton. At the same time, support for Clinton among some of her traditionally stalwart support groups -- women, Easterners, whites, adults with no college education, and Hispanics -- has fallen below 50%.http://www.gallup.com/poll/107407/Obama-Surge-Fairly-BroadBased.aspx
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Added: May 14, 2008
Mar 31 - The New York Senator is digging in her heels and shows no signs of dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Clinton remains behind Obama in the number of pledged delegates by 166, but most polls show her poised to win the Pennsylvania primary by double digits on April 22nd. And after victories in Texas and Ohio one month ago, Clinton says talk of her getting out of the race is very premature. Jon Decker reports.
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Added: March 31, 2008
Mar 31 - The New York Senator is digging in her heels and shows no signs of dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Clinton remains behind Obama in the number of pledged delegates by 166, but most polls show her poised to win the Pennsylvania primary by double digits on April 22nd. And after victories in Texas and Ohio one month ago, Clinton says talk of her getting out of the race is very premature. Jon Decker reports.
Author: ReutersVideo
Keywords: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Reuters presidential election
Added: March 31, 2008
Mar 31 - The New York Senator is digging in her heels and shows no signs of dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Clinton remains behind Obama in the number of pledged delegates by 166, but most polls show her poised to win the Pennsylvania primary by double digits on April 22nd. And after victories in Texas and Ohio one month ago, Clinton says talk of her getting out of the race is very premature. Jon Decker reports.
Author: ReutersVideo
Keywords: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Reuters presidential election
Added: March 31, 2008
Mar 31 - The New York Senator is digging in her heels and shows no signs of dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Clinton remains behind Obama in the number of pledged delegates by 166, but most polls show her poised to win the Pennsylvania primary by double digits on April 22nd. And after victories in Texas and Ohio one month ago, Clinton says talk of her getting out of the race is very premature. Jon Decker reports.
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Keywords: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Reuters presidential election
Added: March 31, 2008
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The Field’s analysis of exit poll data from March 4 to June 3, shows that 15 percent of Clinton’s vote during that period came from pro-McCain voters pranking the system, mostly at the urging of Limbaugh. That is 990,000 votes and delivered to Clinton victories in at least two primary states that she would have lost without them: Indiana and Texas.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Nice_Try_Rush_by_Al_Giordano_at_The_Field
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Many_voting_for_Clinton_to_boost_GOP_The_Boston_Globe_2
Taking a look at recent exit polls from Ohio, Texas, and Mississippi, it appears as though the "Limbaugh Effect" actually had an impact on the outcomes of the three Democratic primaries.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Limbaugh_Effect_does_appear_to_be_working
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Many_voting_for_Clinton_to_boost_GOP_The_Boston_Globe
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Many_voting_for_Clinton_to_boost_GOP
A significant portion of Hillary Clinton voters say they would be 'dissatisfied' if she won the nomination. Exit polls from Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi tell the story.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Daily_Kos_Hold_Your_Nose_And_Vote
Republicans turned out in record numbers to back Hillary Clinton. Exit polls in Texas and Ohio show that 9% of voters in both were self-declared Republicans. Last week Clinton's share of that vote more than doubled after people like Rush Limbaugh told republican voters to skew the Democrats primaries to help John McCain win come November...
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Republicans_Voting_For_Hillary_To_Sabotage_Obama_Campaign
With a 2.5 percentage lead, Senator Hillary Clinton barely squeaked past Senator Barack Obama to win Tuesday’s Texas primary and she has the Latino community to thank. According to exit polling, Clinton won two-thirds of the Hispanic vote. But a group of high-profile gay Hispanics are throwing their support to Barack Obama.
http://digg.com/politics/LGBT_Latino_Leaders_Throw_Support_to_Obama
Evangelicals sent a strong message in Tuesday's Republican primaries in Texas and Ohio by voting overwhelmingly for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, while almost every other Republican demographic group chose Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), exit polls show.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Poll_McCain_Not_Attracting_Evangelicals
Early exit polls indicate a distinct "age gap" in both states. Among Ohio Democratic primary voters aged 17 to 29, 65% went for Obama, and 34% for Clinton. Among those age 60 and older, Clinton led Obama 67-31 percent. The same pattern held true in Texas.
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