Clinton Crushes Obama on Upper West Side
Hillary Clinton appears to have won four delegates in Representative Jerrold Nadler’s district, a liberal area of the city where Barack Obama was expected to do very well and maybe even win.
According to Nadler, who was walking through the ballroom of Clinton’s party here at the Manhattan Center on 34th street, with 90 percent of the vote in Clinton had 58 percent of the vote. The threshold to win four of the district’s six votes is 58.333 percent said Nadler, who couldn’t help but boast a bit about the result.
“We campaigned very hard,” said Nadler, “We campaigned very hard on the West Side.”
That gives Clinton four of the district's six delegates, according to the city Board of Elections. Those four Clinton delegates would be State Senator Tom Duane (35,642 votes), Borough President Scott Stringer (34,769 votes), Assembly member Deborah Glick (34,400 votes) and DC37 labor leader Lillian Roberts (33,053 votes).
The two Clinton delegates who won't make the cut are Clinton fund-raiser Fred Hochberg (32,699 votes) and fund-raiser and lobbyist Suri Kasirer (31,847 votes).
This is something triumph for the Upper West Side establishment which proved, again, that "liberal machine" is not an oxymoron.
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 45.8
- 41.6
- Obama +4.2
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.6
- 33.0
- +22.6
- McCain
- 52.6
- 34.3
- +18.3
Except that, as in Rangel's, Clarke's, Lowey's, and Maloney's C.D.'s, the delegates will be split evenly in Nadler's district, after all, 3 - 3. Kind of a rickety machine, if you ask me. Rangel and Clarke have a lot more to boast about.
Mr. Obama has and will win because he has run his race with talent, skill and GRACE. The Nation is maturing beyond the ideological WARFARE of the 1990s and understand we must have a strategic plan for the 21st Century and re-embrace our place in the world after this dark night. How ironic the States who gave us the Bush nightmare, are self-correcting and voting for Barack. And, the Clinton Machine has a strong grip on the States where favors and lobbyists for SPECIAL INTERESTS want to continue distracting voters (along ethnic/gender lines) with foolish class/race baiting. Americans, PLEASE REMEMBER THE POLITICIANS WHO DID NOT GET ON BOARD and they can take their place in the past, cronyism universe of the private sector their next election cycle...one by one. Turn the page on them, too.