Ohio Dems wish Clinton would exit

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COLUMBUS – Hilllary Clinton might have won Ohio in March by 10 percentage points and a majority of the delegates, but there were few Ohio Democrats at the party’s state convention here Saturday who believe they will be working for her in the fall.

Even most of those who will be going to the Democratic National Convention in August pledged to vote for Clinton wish she would give up her campaign and allow Barack Obama to claim the nomination.

“It bothers me that she won’t give it up,” said former state representative Catherine Barrett of Forest Park, a delegate pledged to Clinton from the 1st Congressional District. “It’s exasperating.”

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Many of the delegates – both Obama and Clinton – were in a ballrooom at the Columbus Convention Center Saturday afternoon for the party’s biennial state convention, a sort of warm-up for the national convention in Denver and the campaign to come this fall.

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Most said they believed two things – that Obama, with a seemingly unsurmountable lead among pledged delegates and the party’s “superdelegates” as well, will be the nominee who takes on John McCain this fall; and that everyone in the party will come together in the fall to win back the White House.

"It’s been a tough fight and it would appear now that it is over,” said state Treasurer Richard Cordray. “Once the fight is over, everybody gets on board.”

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...EWS01/305100025

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COLUMBUS – Hilllary Clinton might have won Ohio in March by 10 percentage points and a majority of the delegates, but there were few Ohio Democrats at the party’s state convention here Saturday who believe they will be working for her in the fall.

Even most of those who will be going to the Democratic National Convention in August pledged to vote for Clinton wish she would give up her campaign and allow Barack Obama to claim the nomination.

“It bothers me that she won’t give it up,” said former state representative Catherine Barrett of Forest Park, a delegate pledged to Clinton from the 1st Congressional District. “It’s exasperating.”

...

Many of the delegates – both Obama and Clinton – were in a ballrooom at the Columbus Convention Center Saturday afternoon for the party’s biennial state convention, a sort of warm-up for the national convention in Denver and the campaign to come this fall.

...

Most said they believed two things – that Obama, with a seemingly unsurmountable lead among pledged delegates and the party’s “superdelegates” as well, will be the nominee who takes on John McCain this fall; and that everyone in the party will come together in the fall to win back the White House.

"It’s been a tough fight and it would appear now that it is over,” said state Treasurer Richard Cordray. “Once the fight is over, everybody gets on board.”

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...EWS01/305100025

Let's hear it for the Ohio Democrats! :applause: