Thursday, June 5, 2008

Obama it is!


It's official. Barack Obama has beaten Hillary Clinton for the nomination to be Democrats' candidate for the US Presidency.

Not just because the newspapers, television and wire services said so. But also because of another e-mail I received from Obama's campaign headquarters today. The message, sent by David Plouffe, Campaign Manager of Obama for America, reads as follows:-

Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

The total number of delegates needed to secure the nomination is 2,118. Right now, Barack has the support of at least 2,179 delegates, which gives him a lock on the nomination.

Thank you for being a part of this. Now is the time for you to take the next step and own a piece of this campaign.

Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee, but we've got huge challenges ahead as we build our organisation for the general election.

John McCain has been running his general election campaign for months, and we have some catching up to do.

But one of the benefits of this historic primary season is that we had a chance to build our grassroots organization in all 50 states.

We have an unprecedented opportunity to moblize volunteers everywhere and compete in places that Democrats have overlooked in the past.

Last night, Barack laid out the vision for where this campaign is headed. Help us get there.

Thank you.

David

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