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Article: Clinton-Obama epic rests on super-delegates; Will the two team up?(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- May 8, 2008
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William Galston, a former policy advisor to president Bill Clinton, said Obama was in the driving seat after his big win in North Carolina and the agonizingly close primary in Indiana.
"Unless there is another startling event, a game-changer on the order of the Reverend (Jeremiah) Wright eruptions, I think that Senator Obama can take a deep breath and consider himself the nominee of the Democratic Party," he said.
"Not long after the first week of June, the superdelegates will begin to declare themselves not in dribs and drabs but in very large numbers (for Obama)," Galston, a political analyst at the Brookings Institution, told AFP.
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