The road to the White House is still zigging and zagging for democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton with the convention just a few weeks away. Voters in Macomb County have had their say – it’s yes, we will have a County Exec.

The beat goes on and Obama and Clinton squared off squeezing out every single last vote that they could get before the North Carolina and Indiana primaries – the two largest state primaries left before the convention. The results made Obama the clear winner in North Carolina. Hillary Clinton to Indiana in a squeaker – not the margin that she’d hoped for, but a win just the same.

They each spoke of the hard economic times the country faces, and the pain at the gas pump. These are issues that everyone, no matter where they walk in life, can relate to.

Obama has continued to close Clinton's long-held lead among superdelegates, those party leaders who are not bound by the outcome of state contests. He picked up two from Maryland on Monday, leaving him trailing Clinton 271-257, in super-delegates.

Clinton's main hope for winning the nomination is to persuade most of the roughly 220 super-delegates still undecided to disregard his lead in the delegate chase and support her instead. The Clinton campaign also hopes to get a boost by getting delegates from Michigan and Florida seated. Delegates from both states were disqualified because those states held their primaries prior to Super Tuesday without the permission of the Democratic National Committee.

The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee has scheduled a meeting May 31 to consider seating delegates from the two states. If permission is granted and the DNC uses that numbers from the actual vote, it shows Clinton as having won both states. As for the number of voters who set pen to paper for the candidate “non-committed” [because their candidates name was not on the ballot], the question is how is the DNC going to handle that?

At this stage in the campaigning, Senator Hillary Clinton needs nearly 350 votes, and Barack Obama needs fewer than 200 votes to secure the democratic nomination. There are election six states with a total of 217 delegate seats and 274 super-delegates that have yet to commit.

John McCain Makes a Stop in Michigan
John McCain is tooling through Metro Detroit to bring his message of what he’ll do as president to supporters at a $2300 a plate fundraising dinner held last evening in Oakland County.

Today McCain is holding at Town Hall Meeting at Oakland University. And will be greeted by supporters and protestors alike.

The Michigan AFL-CIO plans to use a two-day visit by the Republican presidential candidate to tell voters his policies would hurt workers. Michigan AFL-CIO President Mark Gaffney said the union will remind its members that McCain supports right-to-work laws and international trade agreements, wants to tax worker health care benefits and already has told Michigan workers that their lost jobs are unlikely to come back.

The union plans to get that message out through fliers, robocalls and other methods paid for by the national AFL-CIO. It also will join with other groups to protest Wednesday morning outside of the town hall meeting McCain is holding at the Shotwell-Gustafson Pavilion at Oakland University.

Jeff Sadosky McCain’s campaign spokesman said that John McCain has a detailed plan for putting the economy back on track, including plans to retrain workers who have lost their jobs and a $5,000 tax credit that families can use to cover their health care costs.

Macomb County Says It’s Time for a Change
The voters in Macomb Count have made it clear that they want to change the way that their local government is run. On Tuesday, Voters approved a proposal to move Macomb County toward an executive form of government.

The vote approves the election of a charter commission to draft an overhaul of Macomb County's government structure. The new structure also requires voter approval, and it will be at least two years before Macomb County gets an executive.