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Friday, February 22, 2008
Newark, N.J. mayor coming to Dayton for Obama on sunday
Newark, N.J. Mayor - and Barack Obama supporter - Cory Booker, will visit the Dayton area on Sunday and hold public events for Obama.
Booker will be at Omega Baptist Church, 1821 Emerson Ave., in Dayton at 10:45 a.m. He will have a community meet-and-greet at The Golden Nugget, 2932 South Dixie Drive, in Kettering at 1 p.m. Booker with end the day with a forum at Central State University’s New Educational Building, 1400 Brush Row Road, in Wilberforce at 4 p.m.
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Will Nader run again this year?
According to the Associated Pres, Ralph Nader could be poised for another third party presidentia campaign.
Nader is scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Nader launched his 2004 presidential run on the show.
Kevin Zeese, who was Nader’s spokesman during the 2004 presidential race, but is no longer working for him, said Friday that Nader has been actively talking to “lots of people on all sorts of levels” about the possibility of making another run.
Zeese said he could only guess what Nader might do, but added: “Obviously, I don’t think (“Meet the Press” host) Tim Russert would have him on for no reason.”
Last month, Nader began an exploratory presidential campaign and launched a Web site that promises to fight “corporate greed, corporate power, corporate control.”
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Ohio, not a cash cow for candidates, still brings home some bacon
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are within $10,000 of each other in fundraising in Ohio, with Clinton holding a slight advantage, according to an analysis of presidential fundraising compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Clinton, D-N.Y., has raised $933,999 so far, their analysis found. Obama, D-Ill., has garnered $923,999 from Ohioans.
Among Republicans, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, who have both dropped out of the race, continue to hold an advantage over Republican front-runner John McCain. Romney garnered $1.5 million from Ohioans during the course of his bid. Giuliani raised $687,316 from Ohioans.
McCain, meanwhile, has raised $417,190 from Ohio donors. Mike Huckabee, the only other Republican who has won a primary or caucus that is still in the race, has raised $164,201 - less than U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican who remains in the race but has yet to win a primary. Ohioans have given Paul $289,877.
In the Dayton-Springfield region, Romney and Paul both lead Obama among donors. Ohioans gave Romney $54,908 and Paul $34,670. Obama, meanwhile, has raised $33,700. Huckabee has garnered more from the region than Clinton or McCain: He has raised $20,700 from regional donors to Clinton’s $17,706 and McCain’s $17,525.
In the Hamilton-Middletown region, however, Clinton fared better: She raised $23,805 there, coming in second to Romney, who raised $28,900.
Ohio ranks 22nd in presidential fundraising. The state has given presidential candidates a little more than $6 million so far during this campaign - far less than big-bucks California, which has given presidential candidates $73 million so far.
Overall, Obama has $24 million on hand to Clinton’s $29 million. But he raised $36 million alone in January while Clinton raised a little less than $19 million. McCain, meanwhile, has $5 million on hand - less than Paul’s $6 million in the bank. McCain raised $12 million in January. Paul raised more than $4 million, and Huckabee raised about $4 million.
The analysis includes data up to the end of January, the most recent Federal Elections Commission data available.
Obama scores a superdelegate
Sonny Nardi, president of Teamsters’ Local 416 near Cleveland and one of 21 Ohio Democratic superdelegates announced his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama.
The national Teamsters announced their endorsement of the Illinois senator earlier this week.
“The American Dream is getting out of reach for too many working families in Ohio , and we need a President who has stood up to special interests and fought for the middle class throughout their career,” Nardi said in a press release announcing his endorsement. “Barack Obama believes that unfair trade agreements like NAFTA were the wrong policies for American workers, and he has proposed the Patriot Employers Act which would end tax breaks for corporations that outsource American jobs and encourage corporations to create good-paying jobs here in Ohio.”
A superdelegate is a party luminary whose support at the Democratic National Convention is worthy of one delegate vote. The Democratic nominee will need 2,025 delegate votes to take the nomination, and the race for delegates is tight, with Obama holding a slight lead. Superdelegates are not required under party rules to back whomever voters back in primaries and caucuses, but can throw their support behind whomever they want.
Nardi is the fourth superdelegate to publicly pledge support to one of the two Democratic front-runners. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, have both backed Sen. Hillary Clinton, and former DNC chair David Wilhelm has backed Obama.
