{"id":3204,"date":"2008-05-09T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/superdelegate-weahkee-chooses-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:01:00","slug":"superdelegate-weahkee-chooses-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/superdelegate-weahkee-chooses-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Superdelegate Weahkee chooses Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCSunMWXb_I\/AAAAAAAAFrs\/USXqlQpUC1U\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCSunMWXb_I\/AAAAAAAAFrs\/USXqlQpUC1U\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198471858245562354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Another <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> superdelegate is pledging her support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> in the Democratic presidential primary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Laurie Weahkee has decided to back the <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> senator, the <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/view\/nmi-exclusive-count\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Independent<\/a> reported today. The new online organization (for which I write) was the first to report the story, which followed an exclusive interview with Weahkee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAfter the primary elections in <st1:state st=\"on\">Indiana<\/st1:state> and <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, it is now absolutely clear that Barack Obama will be our nominee,\u201d Weahkee told the Independent. \u201cObama has proven that he can campaign in a difficult environment and still inspire thousands of new voices to take part in the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That leaves U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> as the only uncommitted superdelegate from <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, with six of the 12 supporting Clinton and five supporting Obama. Click on the above link to read the Independent\u2019s in-depth interview with Weahkee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another New Mexico superdelegate is pledging her support to Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary. Laurie Weahkee has decided to back the Illinois senator, the New Mexico Independent reported today. The new online organization (for which I write) was the first to report the story, which followed an exclusive interview with Weahkee. \u201cAfter the [&hellip;]<\/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-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}