(Via MyDD.)
Richardson will appear with Obama at a rally at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, at 9:30 AM western. That should be pretty big– tickets are actually being scalped to the event.
I’m pretty surprised by this endorsement. It makes you wonder if this is the ticket in the works. There are no primaries left that have a large block of Latino voters (OR has a small population), that was in Texas [ah, Puerto Rico]. Richardson could have really helped push Obama over in Texas, and that might have been enough to change the dynamics of the contest. Probably not, since Clinton won Ohio so decisively, but maybe.
Richardson’s endorsement does knock a big story and narrative that’s been building against Obama over the past two weeks off the front page. And Richardson did signal, before the 3/3 contests, that he was ready to get behind Obama. For one reason or another, it waited to happen. Among the ‘08 contenders, only Edwards endorsement is bigger. We’ll see if Richardson has any SD coattails before the April 22nd contest in PA.
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