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JFK was 500 delegates behind at this point in his race in 1960. He won WV in a landslide, then went on the the convention to win the nomination.
I continue to be shocked at journalists who feel entitled to write articles like this. Isn't your job to act as an objective check on the government? "No longer content to be observers of the campaign, journalists now see themselves as active players in the unfolding drama, and they show no hesitation trying to dictate the basics of the contest, like who should run and who should quit. It's as if journalists are auditioning for the role of the old party bosses...With Clinton, though, the press seems to have almost complete disregard for the [over 16] million voters who have backed her candidacy, as well as the idea that she is their representative in this race. Instead, they treat her entire campaign as some sort of vanity exercise in which voters do not exist."--Eric Boelhert, Media Matters
"Another way of looking at the status of the candidates is to use 2004 election results to ask how many 2004 Electoral College votes in states that John Kerry won does each candidate have to date. In fact, if one sums the Electoral College vote of the states that went Democrat in 2004 according to whether Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama prevailed, one finds that Sen. Clinton again leads, with 159 of the 2004 Democratic Electoral College votes in her column vs. 85 in Sen. Obama's column. "--Beth Daponte, sr. research scholar Inst. for Social & Policy Studies at Yale 5/4/08
But then, again, maybe the Democrats don't really want to win. Maybe they just want all the new money Obama has brought into the party, and maybe the office holders just want to get re-elected.
POSTED BY ONE OF OVER 16 MILLION VOTERS WHO HAVE VOTED FOR SEN. CLINTON SO FAR. WE EXIST, AND WE MATTER. And no Democrat can win in the fall without us.
