Letters to the Editor
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Well, McAuliffe is right about one thing
Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere.
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What happens...
To all that dough when she loses Texas and Ohio and concedes?
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""Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere.""
I know one place she's gone is from the front page. It seems like she's disappearing from the news. Obama butting heads with McCain with George Bush. Since the debate I've noticed a decrease in Clinton talk. Its as though everyone has already moved on. the real story is now McCain/Obama.
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Truth in advertising
McAuliffe said. "Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere."
That's one of the only true things McAuliffe has said the whole campaign.
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Terry McAuliffe is a nincompoop
"Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere."
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Not going anyplace?
well, she sure as hell ain't going to the white house.
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What happens to the money
Can unused money donated during a primary be used during the general?
Also, could there be a shortfall in donations once the general is underway because people feel that they've already given?
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Saving my powder (money)
... for the real election. Honestly, either Hillary or Obama would rock my world if they were to gain the presidency.
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Follow the Money
Kinda hard to believe 200,000 Democrats suddenly became inspired to contribute for the first time to the Clinton campaign in February. How much of Hillary's sudden infusion of cash, I wonder, is coming not from Democrats but from Republicans who desperately want her to get the nomination and not Obama. Hell, some of them would actually prefer to see her win in November rather than McCain.
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@3reddogs
You say: "Kinda hard to believe 200,000 Democrats suddenly became inspired to contribute for the first time to the Clinton campaign in February."
Well, I guess if you get angry and concerned enough, like I did, you get out the old credit card and zip a chunk of change through the ether, change you perhaps can ill afford, but which you're willing to part with if only on principle.
So, any more aspersions you'd like to cast? (BTW, I'm an Independent who almost invariably votes Democrat.)
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It must be a Karl Rove plot!
Or maybe an alien one.
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Cool it Kotex!
I don't care if you send your money to the rotting corpse of Jefferson Davis. And being as uptight with Obama as you are I wouldn't be surprised if you did. So where ya'll at in New Awlins? And another thing "dawlin," do i really care?
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"Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere."
Sigh.
I would like to know if situations were reversed, if Obama had lost 11 contests in a row and were seeing his leads disappear in Texas and Ohio, would there even be a question of his exit? Would he even still be in the race?
If she loses Texas and isn't out by the 5th, I think this is going to get ugly just for the fact that for her to win after that, there would have to be some serious shenanigans.
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What happens to the money, Pt. 2
Good question. What DOES happen to unused money from the primary and can it be used for the general? Because, if this is so, maybe it's better Hillary stay in the race for a while so Obama can continue to amass huge donations that he could then re-purpose to the general WITHOUT violating the funding limits of the agreement McCain keeps whining about.
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Hollywoodaholic...
I'm pretty sure (based on having read about it but not recently, so I can't link or cite where) that whether or not Clinton withdraws, all the money spent between now and the convention is "primary" money. The Federal funding and rules around general election money only kick in once the candidate becomes the party's formal nominee, which Obama wouldn't be until the convention, even if Clinton dropped out and released her delegates today.
So in fact, it would be best for Obama's fundraising for Clinton to leave immediately (and, presumably, vice versa, I'm NOT starting an anti-Hillary thing here).
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Thanks, dkmoorhead
My thinking was just that both Hillary and Obama have pretty good thing going with a competitive race fueling both their fundraising drives to record proportions. It would be great if they could somehow fail to spend that war chest against each other anymore and keep the kitty growing to pool against McCain in the general. I mean it would be an astronomical economic advantage. But I realize I'm just dreaming.
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Donations
This just inspired me to donate some more money to Obama.
Go Texas voters!
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@KateTex
Damn, but you're great! Thanks for the bright and fearless posts of the last several days.
I just missed being one of the 200,000 new donors to the Clinton campaign in February--I made my first contribution to her campaign in January and added to it this past week. For those who are so enamoured of their own candidate to be bewildered about why others might wish to support Senator Clinton, here's an answer: she's the best we have to offer the nation, and she still has a chance to win the nomination.
Oh, and I hate seeing anyone being ganged up on in unfair and unjust ways. That's a basic value I got from my Democratic leanings of the last six or seven decades.