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@jebldmm
[Read the article: Dems hold dueling conference calls]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At some point, it becomes impossible to state that a candidate should fight on when they have no chance of winning. We are at that point now. Why? Clinton cannot make up lost ground to Obama by any other means than by altering the rules to suit her campaign and that is her only strategy. Seating MI and FL will make her happy but are a violation of the rules that she agreed to at the beginning. She isn't even a little disturbed by the fact that Obama wasn't on the ballot in MI. She just wants to win.
Her other strategy is the superdelegates. I think we know now that won't work, right? So what are we left with? A candidate with huge debt, eroding support and clearly, clearly fewer delegates, states and votes in her corner. Explain to me WHY Hillary should fight on. If she deserved to win, she would be WINNING NOW. How many contests are left, six?
Obama has earned his right to be the nominee. He mapped a winning strategy and played by the rules. Despite recent setbacks, he still climbed out ahead of Clinton in delegates.
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Sometimes, you need friends...
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes, you need friends to tell you when it's over. McGovern is the first but he won't be the last to help Hillary pull the plug on her campaign.
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@ncawley
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McGovern is a friend to the Clintons. Before you toss away his statement in support of Obama, reflect on who else is left to let her know the campaign is over.
Bill won't tell her it's over. He owes her. Neither will Chelsea. The cadre of backbiters on her team probably don't have the guts. Long-standing friends and party donors, not subordinates and employees, are the ones to advise her. This call for her to drop out came after a phone call to the Clintons, meaning that McGovern informed them of his perspective. As others do the same, privately or publicly, Hillary will face the inevitable truth. She's lost the primary. No end run for MI and FL delegates will be able to sway SD's and will be widely viewed as underhanded politics. Better to have a friend tell you than a rival.
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@mickey kovars
[Read the article: Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote:
"Truth is, the experts are the Clintons. Bill Clinton is the only Democrat to win the presidency since LBJ except Carter, who got elected on a fluke, was a disaster and got defeated on reelection. The Clintons know how to take it to the Republicans and beat them.
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Then explain why the Clintons, the experts, have lost to Obama? When one is behind on states, votes and delegates, you've lost. I believe you must win your own primary first before moving onto the GE. Perhaps it is this type of entitlement logic that has doomed Hillary's cammpaign.
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Her Candidacy is now a Vanity Project
[Read the article: Clinton: "I am in this race"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton was a strong candidate for president. She made a good case based on her experience. Unfortunately, the planning and management for her campaign was abysmally poor. The near-total lack of strategy or funds post-February is a good indicator of how this campaign was managed. Unable to fend off Obama early on the basis of experience, Clinton's campaign went negative. Hardly original but good evidence of a message that didn't resonate well enough with voters. Certainly not enough to take the lead in this contest from Obama.
Now, Hillary is at the very end of the process. There are only 6 states left. Despite weeks of bad press for Obama and an allegedly voter-friendly gas tax plan, Hillary finds herself further behind Obama than before. This is the strongest evidence so far that she is, contrary to her own logic, not the strongest Democratic candidate for president.
I still have hope for Hillary that she will bow out on a high note, but I'm doubtful. Her recent shouting about seating MI and FL delegates, yet again, indicates her campaign's inability to plan effectively for this nomination process. I hear there's a MI seating plan in the works to be negotiated with the Obama camp. I hope it flies. Her net gain from that effort would be 10 delegates. Given that all candidates agreed to the DNC plan regarding MI and FL, she's lucky to get that from MI.
I realize that Hillary doesn't want to go out a loser or doesn't want to leave the stage yet. However, this is what a loss looks like. The inability to win. I certainly don't like Mitt Romney but he went out on a high note. Republicans voted for him in the thousands in both IN and NC despite the fact that he is no longer a candidate for president. He won a lot of goodwill within his party for leaving in a timely manner. Hillary needs to do the same.