The Obama campaign's 'unsung hero'
It’s time to give credit to the unsung heroes of a successful campaign and the little known name behind the Obama campaign comes up with Jeffrey Berman in this article posted on Politico entitled: The Obama campaign's 'unsung hero' . The following is a portion of this informative article;
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had just declared victory in the Nevada caucuses when most campaign reporters heard Jeffrey Berman’s voice for the first and only time.
Berman, Sen. Barack Obama’s director of delegate selection, chimed in during a conference call with the media to make an unexpected case: Despite Clinton’s popular vote victory in Nevada and an authoritative Associated Press count giving Clinton the edge in the Nevada delegate count, Obama had actually won the state by the only measure that mattered.
“Obama had a majority in the district that had an odd number of delegates, so he won an extra seat,” Berman told the puzzled press; the Associated Press delegate expert, on the call, promised to revise his count.
