This year, Mr Obama’s march to the nomination has generated little interest
because he has no major primary challenger, no one who made the ballot in
more than a handful of states.
Democratic voters, however, are not unanimously behind the president.
In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protester Randall Terry, who founded Operation
Rescue, got 18 per cent of the vote in the Democratic presidential primary
March 6. That should have been good enough to win eight delegates, but state
party officials said Mr Terry did not follow party rules and was not a “bona
fide Democrat.”
The delegates were awarded to Mr Obama; Terry complained he was the victim of “political
insider trading.”
In Alabama, 18 per cent of Democratic voters voted for “uncommitted”
in the March 13 primary, so the state party will send eight uncommitted
delegates to the Democratic national convention.
Mr Obama is unlikely to win Oklahoma or Alabama in the general election.
Source: AP
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