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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/12F87239-207C-4903-9673-7E98A2B4D9D4/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/wiccantexan/">wiccantexan</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics/main3992636.shtml" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics/main3992636.shtml">www.cbsnews.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="body">Former President, A Superdelegate, Implies That He Will Support Illinois Senator</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Former President Carter wouldn't quite say it, but he left little doubt this week about who he'd like to see in the White House next year.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Speaking to local reporters Wednesday on a trip to Nigeria, the former Democratic president noted that <A class="link" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/22/politics/main3193625.shtml">Barack Obama</A> had won his home state of Georgia and his hometown of Plains.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">"My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama," he said at a press conference, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. "As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess."</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/president/" rel="tag">president</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">campaign</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/clinton/" rel="tag">clinton</a></div>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics/main3992636.shtmlFri, 04 Apr 2008 01:53:36 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/859770CD-702C-4441-86C3-B77B642AA618/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/wiccantexan/">wiccantexan</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/03/clinton-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-pledged-delegate/" title="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/03/clinton-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-pledged-delegate/">elections.foxnews.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is unlikely to catch rival Barack Obama in pledged delegates, hinted on Thursday that she hoped to persuade a few to back her instead of him.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> “There is no such thing as a pledged delegate,” Clinton said at a news conference in California, where she has been fundraising.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P align="left"> The former first lady said she was traveling to North Dakota to thank her supporters and delegates — and wooing Obama supporters was fair game.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P align="left"> Pledged delegates are “misnomer. The whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Senator McCain,” Clinton said. “And I think that process goes all the way to the convention.”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P align="left"> While the DNC has no rules requiring pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses to vote for the candidate, the people who serve as pledged delegates are selected by the campaigns who won them and loyalty is a key qualification.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/clinton/" rel="tag">clinton</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/president/" rel="tag">president</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">campaign</a></div>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/03/clinton-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-pledged-delegate/Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:50:25 GMT