Back to Reality: New Mexico's Richardson endorses Obama (voters, Mexican, campaign)

[Alexus]

Excellent move. Obama continues to roll on and over Hillary and her feeble attempts to be deceptive. Richardson is obviously a fine man, with a keen sense of fairness, and a great judge of character.

Maybe this will encourage many of the hispanics to vote for the candidate who is most likely to work with them as equals: Obama

[atxcio]

I'm not sure about the hispanic vote in PA, but perhaps for Puerto Rico/North Carolina... Obama should maybe just go ahead and announce his anticipated VP running mate?

I've always said Richardson would be the logical pick. If the war were a bigger issue, Wesley Clark is ready in the wings... given a perfect world, you'd wait on the importance of that issue. But since the Clintons have made it clear hispanics are their "turf", why not go ahead and announce Richardson?

[expat007]

maybe Hillary is still in the mix

[Paige65]

Back to reality, indeed.

I wonder who inserted Richardson's circuit board? It was uncomfortable when they did mine; I wonder if the more prominent supporters get pain medication during the procedure?

[NooYowkur81]

A lot of young Hispanics are so over the Clintons, myself included. I think Richardson is great, too bad he couldn't get more of a party backing, he would have been a great candidate.

[malamute]

Maybe the Clintons making this campaign so entirely about race at this point was making hispanics uncomfortable with them.

[janeannwho]

Pa has a hefty Puerto Rican and Mexican population. If they were Richardson supporters, it will help Obama. But I am not sure if it is a monolithic community at all.

[jojo7]

Great news. I think it may help with the latino voters. This news probably doesn't make Hillary happy since he worked as the Ambassador under the Clinton administration. Apparently she was aggressively seeking his support according to CNN reports on this endorsement. Well, I guess if Edwards comes forth with his support of Hillary, which people have suspected will happen soon, this might be a good balance and hopefully the Edwards endorsement won't be such a huge effect.

[gsoboi]

Originally Posted by jojo7

Great news. I think it may help with the latino voters. This news probably doesn't make Hillary happy since he worked as the Ambassador under the Clinton administration. Apparently she was aggressively seeking his support according to CNN reports on this endorsement. Well, I guess if Edwards comes forth with his support of Hillary, which people have suspected will happen soon, this might be a good balance and hopefully the Edwards endorsement won't be such a huge effect.

I dont know..Obama and Edwards were alot closer together on the issues and both had the same kind of "change" campaigns. Much so that most Edward supporters went to Obama when He dropped out of the race. I was one of those Edwards supporters who now back Obama.

[MiamiU08]

He's just beginning to speak right now - his beard is looking mighty fine. Way to go, Billy Rich!!