The campaigns for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are purging potential California delegates in a bid to ensure that onl their loyalists travel to the national convention in August.

Locked in a race with an uncertain outcome, representatives for both both camps directed the California Democratic Party this week to delte a raft of names of some 2,400 potential delegates who will be elected Sunday in party caucuses.

Most of the cutting was done by the Illinois senator - about 900 potential Obama delegates were dropped by his campaign, with about 50 excluded on Clinton's side.

Okay fair enough they both culled their lists. But check out the magnitude of the cull 900 to 50. He purged 21 for every one she did. Someone must not be sleeping well at night.

I love the comments on the Huff Obama: it's Clinton fault that he had to do this because she has been saying that the pledged delegates are free to vote for whom they choose and so Barack is only being extra careful.

There has been an extraordinary outpouring of grassroots support for Senator Obama among Democrats and Independents in all 53 California Congressional districts.

In recognition of this tremendous enthusiasm, our campaign has asked the California Democratic Party to allow all persons who have filed to be a district delegate candidate for Senator Obama at the Democratic National Convention to participate in the caucuses this Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Flush with payments from well-funded campaigns, the ward leaders and Democratic Party bosses typically spread out the cash in the days before the election, handing $10, $20 and $50 bills to the foot soldiers and loyalists who make up the party's workforce.

It is all legal -- but Obama's people are telling the local bosses he won't pay.

That sets up a culture clash, pitting a candidate who promises to transform American politics against the realities of a local political system important to his presidential hopes. Pennsylvania holds its primary April 22.
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Hillary is going to do it, all candidates do it, part of the cost of doing business, but Obama with the millions he boasts to raise that are coming from the little people, appears to want to buck PA tradition.

Supporting Senator Obama, who has been given a free media ride on most of his lies is disingenuous and a sad reflection of the ability of an apparently intelligent woman to reach reasonable conclusions.

Can we be any more off-topic, irrelevant

They were really common until about a month ago.  Every day I'd see some long boring explanation of why this previously open-minded (or even HRC supporting) voter I had never heard of before had finally concluded that they could never, ever vote for that evil, calculating, cold, you-know-what Hillary.  

They were posted in comments in pretty much every blog I read.  I never recognized the poster, and never saw them post again.  

Usually they mentioned some recent allegation against Hillary as the "final straw."

"You finally lost me at Bosnia."  Yep, that's the standard script.

James Wolcott wrote a column about them and they suddenly stopped.

The guy didn't care about Michigan and Florida not getting ANY delegates to the national convention.

One thing it shows is that Obama is trying to make sure he doesn't lose delegates at the convention...which means he is afraid that he might.