{"id":14539,"date":"2008-02-10T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14539.html"},"modified":"2008-02-10T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T00:45:30","slug":"obama-takes-maine-by-wide-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/obama-takes-maine-by-wide-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama takes Maine by wide margin"},"content":{"rendered":"

February was poised to be a rough month for the Clinton campaign, but the Maine caucuses looked like a lone bright spot. In the post-Super Tuesday landscape, this was expected to be Clinton’s best chance of a February victory, and several recent polls<\/a> showed her in the lead.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work out<\/a> the way the campaign had planned.<\/p>\n

Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal caucuses Sunday, giving Barack Obama a slight lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton in early tallies for the party’s party presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Democrats in 420 Maine towns and cities were deciding how the state’s 24 delegates will be allotted at the party’s national convention in August. Despite the weather, turnout was “incredible,” party executive director Arden Manning said.<\/p>\n

With 11 percent of the participating precincts reporting, Obama had a narrow lead over Clinton, 175 to 168, with four uncommitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In terms of percentages, with 70% of precincts reporting, Obama led the tally of state delegates, 58% to 41%.<\/p>\n

After yesterday’s setbacks in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington state, the Clinton campaign responded by highlighting how little effort it made in these contests. It’s much tougher to make the same argument in Maine, where the senator spent considerable time and resources leading up to the caucuses.<\/p>\n

It’s a good weekend for the Obama campaign (five for five, if one includes the Virgin Islands), and further evidence of a Clinton campaign that hoped to be in a far better position right now, no doubt contributing to the change<\/a> in campaign managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February was poised to be a rough month for the Clinton campaign, but the Maine caucuses looked like a lone bright spot. In the post-Super Tuesday landscape, this was expected to be Clinton’s best chance of a February victory, and several recent polls showed her in the lead. It didn’t work out the way the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}