Clinton Seeks To Go After Obama Superdelegates

2008 June 2
by madhavgopalkrish
to travel with her to South Dakota where she planned to campaign Monday. Rodriguez had initially supported Clinton, switched to Obama, and recently returned to her camp.

Clinton, meanwhile, said she was still contemplating whether to challenge the decision by the Democratic Party’s rules committee to split the Michigan delegates 69-59 in her favor. Each delegate would have a half vote. The agreement granted Obama 55 uncommitted Michigan delegates and four who would have been assigned to Clinton based on the state’s results.

McAuliffe Sunday night called the panel’s judgment “outrageous.”

“People are angry,” he said. “This does not unify our party, this crazy, cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan.”

Here in South Dakota, Clinton pressed on against the odds.

In a campaign trail reunion usually reserved for election nights, she was to join former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, at her last Monday event in Sioux Falls, S.D.

clipped from breakingnews.nypost.com
The former first lady enters this week with an insurgent strategy not only to win over undecided superdelegates but to peel away Obama’s support from those party leaders and elected officials who already have committed to back him for the nomination.
“Whatever differences Senator Clinton and I may have, those differences pale in comparison to the other side,” he said.
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But Clinton argues she now leads in the popular vote – a debatable point given that she relies on Michigan and Florida outcomes. None of the candidates campaigned in either state and Obama received no votes in Michigan because he removed his name from the ballot. Clinton also continues to present herself as better able to confront McCain in the fall.
She and her campaign’s national chairman, Terry McAuliffe, both made it clear Sunday night that Obama’s supporters were now fair to pluck with those arguments.
To drive the point home, Clinton invited Virgin Islands superdelegate Kevin Rodriguez, a recent convert,
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