Randall Terry, the pro-life Operation Rescue founder running for president in the Democratic primary, qualified for at least one delegate to the Democratic National Convention after meeting the 15 percent threshold in the Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary.
Terry won 15 counties and earned 18 percent of the Democratic vote in Oklahoma, a state in which “a candidate must receive 15 percent or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates,” according to thegreenpapers.com.
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“I am going to Catholic Democrats, evangelical Democrats, Baptist Democrats, and saying ‘you cannot in good conscience vote for barack obama because he promotes the murder of babies and is attacking the church,’ and that message resonates as we’re seeing right now,” Terry told The Washington Examiner.
Terry said that his campaign called every household that voted in the 2008 Democratic primary once, and called some a second time. “Obama promotes the killing of babies by abortion; and has attacked the Church and religious liberty by demanding we pay for drugs that murder the unborn,” the robocall message told voters. “You can send a message to Obama and the world, that there are still pro-life democrats who will use their vote to defend the unborn and religious liberty. The Democrat primary is today. Please, vote Randall Terry for President…for the sake of the babies.”
“I think Randall Terry actually gets a delegate from OK-2,” Slate’s Dave Weigel tweeted. “He’s at 26 percent to Obama’s 42 percent.”
Terry said internal polls suggest he can damage Obama as a third-party general election candidate. “I can suppress the Democrat and independent vote by between 5 and 9 percent and the Republican support is unmoved,” he said.
