{"id":3178,"date":"2008-05-05T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/superdelegate-colon-backs-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T14:05:00","slug":"superdelegate-colon-backs-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/superdelegate-colon-backs-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Superdelegate Col\u00f3n backs Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Brian Col\u00f3n, chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico and a superdelegate, endorsed Barack Obama<\/a> in the presidential primary on Saturday. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBarack Obama has proven to inspire a movement that has brought a record number of people into the process,\u201d Col\u00f3n said in a news release. \u201cHe\u2019s proven to be a candidate who can compete and will fight hard to expand the Democratic Party\u2019s reach and put Western states in play in the general election. His message of change is resonating across all ages, races and economic backgrounds in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also said Obama has run a positive campaign.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cAs I talk to Democrats all over New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, they are increasingly concerned with the negative tone that the campaign has taken,\u201d the chairman said. \u201cI believe that Senator Obama has presented a positive message of change while continuing to focus on our real opponent \u2013 a John McCain<\/a> presidency and another four-year term of failed Bush policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Col\u00f3n said Obama \u201chas run a different campaign \u2013 one that goes beyond the things that divide us and is driven by a commitment to real change that starts at the grassroots level.\u201d He noted New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>\u2019s \u201cvery close\u201d election on Feb. 5 \u2013 which Hillary Clinton<\/a> won \u2013 and said there is a lot of excitement among Democrats. He called both candidates \u201cvery talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Expect many to take issue with Col\u00f3n saying Obama has run a positive campaign and taking an apparent shot at his opponent for turning the contest negative. The back-and-forth attacks between both campaigns have come to characterize the primary race in recent months. <\/p>\n

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The tally now among New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> superdelegates is six for Clinton, four for Obama and two who have not publicly announced their decisions \u2013 U.S. Rep. Tom Udall<\/a> and activist Laurie Weahkee. As I\u2019ve already written<\/a>, Col\u00f3n has taken some heat from Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> supporters for the selection of Weahkee. Some superdelegates who back Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> have said they suspect Weahkee is an Obama supporter even though she says she hasn\u2019t made a decision. They have accused Col\u00f3n, who was unpledged at the time of Weahkee\u2019s selection on April 26, of breaking party rules.<\/p>\n

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Expect, now that Col\u00f3n has revealed his support for the other candidate, that the Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> supporters will be even more upset. They can appeal Weahkee\u2019s selection to the Democratic National Committee<\/a>, but have not announced whether they will do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Col\u00f3n, chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico and a superdelegate, endorsed Barack Obama in the presidential primary on Saturday. \u201cBarack Obama has proven to inspire a movement that has brought a record number of people into the process,\u201d Col\u00f3n said in a news release. \u201cHe\u2019s proven to be a candidate who can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}