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Obama Wins Wyoming; Bubba Talks "Dream Ticket"
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 9, 2008
Modified Mar 9, 2008
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Barack Obama won the Wyoming caucuses yesterday. Obama beat Hillary Clinton with 61%, to her 38%, Obama is projected to get 7 delegates and Clinton may receive 4.
According to the NY Times, Obama's campaign was in Wyoming two weeks earlier than Clinton's. There were five Obama offices and two Clinton offices, and Obama ran TV and radio ads, while Clinton just ran radio. The spin from the campaigns: Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe said, "This is a big win for us. You saw very furious campaigning by the Clinton campaign here.” Clinton's campaign manager Maggie Williams said they were "thrilled with this near split in delegates."
As it happens, Saturday Night Life spent the third week in a row (here's one and two) starting the show with the Democratic presidential candidates. This time, it was a spoof of Clinton's "It's 3 a.m. ad" and Obama's inexperience.
Weekend Update also had some barbs about the monster remark and how Clinton is supposedly warming up after her Ohio and Texas wins. But the funniest thing about the 3 a.m. ad was not from SNL - it was from a girl featured in the ad. It turns out the ad used old stock footage and now the girl is a 17-year-old Obama supporter (she was even a precinct captain in Washington!).
Speaking not for comedic effect, Bill Clinton told folks in Mississippi that a Clinton-Obama ticket would be "an almost unstoppable force" because "[Obama] would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was President." Of course, the former president thinks his wife should be the president.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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