Letters to the Editor
Mike LeP
Published Letters: 376 Editor's Choice: 6
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Karen
[Read the article: A split Democratic decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Crushing losses? In Republican caucus states like Utah and Kansas?
Utah and Kansas were actually on Super Tuesday. The states I'm talking about include Washington, Maine, Maryland, Virginia, and Wisconsin - all blue or swing states that Obama could carry in the fall. Obama beat her in all of them by double-digits, effectively ending this face.
Hillary is viable until somebody reaches enough delegates to secure the nomination.
That should happen in early June. I hope Hillary is willing to concede then.
And yes, the media do have it in for Hillary.
Obama has his share of racism to compete with, too. Whining about the refs never changed a thing.
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Debaser et al.
[Read the article: United Mine Workers endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary has suggested that Obama needs to account for his 20-year relationship with Rev. Wright and his ties to Ayers. She said you can't pick your family but you can pick your pastor.
Fair enough. You also pick your husband. And I'm wondering what it says about Hillary that she's stayed with a serial philanderer who's subjected her and her family to multiple humiliations. Did Hillary stay in a sham marriage for the pursuing the Presidency? Or is she just pathetically insecure?
Hillary herself says that personal associations are fair game, so I'm questioning her marriage to a serial abuser of women.
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Karen ... please
[Read the article: A split Democratic decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No it won't. Neither Obama nor Hillary can reach enough pledged delegates to win the nomination. They each need the superdelegates, and they don't cast their votes until the convention.
That's true, but given that all the superdelegate movement is toward Obama and the party leaders have already said they don't want a brokered convention, I expect Obama to reach the magic number in June.
It's not over and I'm tired of this attitude that Hillary needs to step aside and hand the nomination to Obama.
I'm tired of people like you pretending Hillary can win iwthout initiating legal action to get FL/MI delegates seated according to a non-vote in January.
And complaining about sexism in the media is not the same as complaining about the "refs." The media are NOT the refs. The voters are. In fact the media don't even preactice journalism anymore. I feel sorry for the young people in this country who are not exposed to real, objective journalism that serves the public good.
The media is sexist and racist - happy?
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[Read the article: She's in it to spin it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Neither candidate can reach the magic number (2,026) without the help of superdelegates, so we should be looking for the strongest claim to the nomination.
Obama has an insurmountable lead of roughly 160 delegates. Even if he were to lose in a landslide in Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, he'd still lead Hillary by about 100 delegates.
According to Real Clear Politics, Obama leads Hillary by about 450,000 total votes, excluding four caucus states (IA, NV, ME, and WA) he won along with FL/MI. If you include Florida but exclude the remaining five states, he still leads by about 200,000 votes. The only way Hillary now leads in the popular vote is if you include Michigan, giving her about 340,000 votes vs. 0 for Obama, since he wasn't on the ballot.
So barring some unprecedented landslide wins in the remaining three contests, the only way Hillary could beat Obama in the popular vote is if you include the votes from Florida and Michigan - two primaries that were not supposed to count and one where Obama wasn't even on the ballot. Even then, this popular vote lead would be slim.
Hillary can't overtake Obama in delegates and the only way she can overtake him in the popular vote is by including the results from states that were not supposed to count. So she has no fair, legitimate path to the nomination. You can throw all Hillary's arguments about battleground states and demographics out the window: If she wins the nomination without a lead in delegates or a convincing lead in supers, you're left with an illegitimate nominee who can't get core Dem voters to the polls, has high negatives, and no appeal to independents. And if Ronald Reagan came back from the dead to run for a third term, even he couldn't get Republicans into the voting booth like Clinton will.
Hillary just can't win.
Let's face it, there are only two reasons why superdelegates are on the fence and this is still a contest: 1) out of either respect for the Clinton brand or fear of retaliation, and 2) unspoken fears that any black guy would be unelectable in the fall.