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John McCain would like to maintain his image of a maverick who tells the truth and bucks his party when it is wrong. However, he has another side that is not as well known--McCain, the guy who helps lobbyists and cronies. His relationship with Charles Keating and more recently Vicki Iseman is going to be big news during the campaign. Now the Washington Post is reporting on another case McCain probably won't want to talk about too much but the Democrats will undoubtedly hit him over the head with repeatedly. The GOP brand has been tarred with corruption in recent years and charges of being too close to lobbyists and cronies could resonate.

The mystery of who fathered Laura Fay's child has been solved. It was Rep. Vito Fossella of Staten Island. As the NY tabloids have been putting it: Vito finito. He's dead meat. The only remaining question is whether he resigns right now (possibly forcing a special election) or just announces he is not running for reelection. The Republicans want to have him resign now and have a special election just to get rid of him as fast as possible. The Democrats dream scenario is that he runs for reelection. What's the country coming to? It was with a woman and he didn't pay for it. Can't a congressman have any fun any more?

Politico has a list of superdelegates by state and who they are supporting and which ones are uncommitted. While many Democrats are moaning about how long the process is taking, few are pointing their finger at the real culprits: the fence-sitting superdelegates. If every superdelegate whose state has voted already would announce who he or she is for tomorrow, we would have a candidate. What are the 22 uncommitted superdelegates from California waiting for? They have known for 3 months how Californians voted. Why can't they make up their minds. Those superdelegates who want to follow the will of the voters know what their voters want except in six states and those superdelegates who want to make their own decision surely don't need any more information. C'mon supers, get off the fence and say who you are for. Here is a table showing where the superdelegates stand by state.

State Clinton Obama Uncommitted
Alabama 3 2 3
Alaska 1 1 2
American Samoa 4 2 0
Arizona 4 3 4
Arkansas 11 0 1
California 30 14 22
Colorado 4 4 6
Connecticut 2 8 2
Delaware 3 1 4
Democrats Abroad 1.5 2 0.5
District of Columbia 10 10 4
Florida 0 0 0
Georgia 3 7 3
Guam 1 1 3
Hawaii 2 1 5
Idaho 0 3 1
Illinois 0 28 3
Indiana 4 5 3
Iowa 3 6 2
Kansas 1 3 4
Kentucky 3 2 3
Louisiana 2 1 7
Maine 1 2 4
Maryland 11 8 10
Massachusetts 9 11 6
Michigan 0 0 0
Minnesota 3 10 1
Mississippi 0 3 3
Missouri 5 5 6
Montana 0 3 5
Nebraska 0 6 0
Nevada 2 2 4
New Hampshire 3 3 2
New Jersey 13 4 3
New Mexico 6 4 2
New York 45 1 3
North Carolina 3 7 7
North Dakota 0 7 1
Ohio 5 5 9
Oklahoma 1 4 5
Oregon 2 2 8
Pennsylvania 16 5 5
Puerto Rico 4 2 1
Rhode Island 8 2 1
South Carolina 2 3 4
South Dakota 0 6 1
Tennessee 5 4 8
Texas 12 12 8
Utah 1 2 2
Vermont 1 5 1
Virgin Islands 2 2 2
Virginia 6 4 6
Washington 6 4 7
West Virginia 3 2 5
Wisconsin 2 10 4
Wyoming 0 3 2

No new primary polls, but three new general election polls as follows.

State Clinton McCain Start End Pollster
Georgia 37% 48% May 06 May 06 Rasmussen
Missouri 43% 45% May 06 May 06 Rasmussen
Wisconsin 43% 47% May 05 May 05 Rasmussen
State Obama McCain Start End Pollster
Georgia 39% 53% May 06 May 06 Rasmussen
Missouri 41% 47% May 06 May 06 Rasmussen
Wisconsin 43% 47% May 05 May 05 Rasmussen

The polling results for all primaries and caucuses are available as a Web page and in .csv format.

A few more supers declared yesterday. Here is where we are now. It looks like Obama has about 1850 delegates lined up, so he needs 175 of the remaining 500 or so.

Delegates

Source Clinton Obama Obama-Clinton
Washington Post 1684 1840 +156
NY Times 1688 1851 +163
AP 1697 1849 +152
CNN 1685 1846 +161
ABC 1691 1855 +164
CBS 1690 1850 +158
MSNBC 1700 1850 +150

Needed to win: 2025

Here is another source for delegate totals.



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