Campaign '08

Analysis: Obama's Shift To Center Gives GOP Ammo

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on June 28, 2008, in Washington, DC. Source: Melissa Golden/Getty Images

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has excited many with the notion that he is a new, transcendent type of politician. But he is giving the GOP effort ammunition and endangering his "Change We Can Believe In" motto with several shifts to the center, most recently on the Iraq war, his campaign's defining issue.

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- DEMOCRATS
2,118 needed to win
- REPUBLICANS
1,191 needed to win
Barack Obama 2,166 -
John McCain 1,399
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Hillary Clinton 1,927 -
Mike Huckabee 231
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John Edwards 2 -
Mitt Romney
149 -
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