Letters to the Editor
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McAuliffe looks shocked
Very interesting.
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And the Crowd goes silent.....
Where are all the Clintonistas?
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wouldn't shock me...
I've seen it reported other places and hinted at by others like Bill Richardson that today is moving day. Either sweep the big two states by considerable margins, or get out of the way. It was one thing to let 11 striaght victories go for two weeks, but seven more weeks of this and Clinton could really do some damage.
If I were a superdelegate, that's what I'd be saying. Seven more weeks is an eternity in an election, the Democrats can't afford to give Sen. McCain that long to stand idly by and say "I agree with both of them when they say that the other one sucks."
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Are This Group Of SuperDelegates
Going to be the ones doing the explaining when Obama can't pull the troops out?
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Someone spell it out for me
Are these 50 superd's who've already told Obama they are backing him, now about to go public with it?
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Are the 50 superd's who were undecided, announcing they are now decided in favor of Obaba?
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Are these 50 superd's who supported HRC before and are now changing over to Obama?
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Poor Terry
You can see him making plans to update his resume in the latter stages of that clip...
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Endgame
This is the thing I talked about weeks ago, where even if Clinton keeps fighting, gradually she's going to keep losing superdelegates as they coalesce around Obama's candidacy, leaving the Clintons increasingly marginalized, without actually having any cards left to play, and no way to spin victory out of it. Even peeling away from the Democratic Party and mounting a third-party bid would only bring along the most rabid Clintonites, nobody else. At some point, even the spin machine will have to stop moving in circles.
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The End Game
Is 2025.
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Endgame
Are you saying that she will concede in 2025? Seems about right, seeing as she doesn't really care about the party.
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Super delegates
Obama has been getting one or two super delegates a day. He just got another from SC today.
You can bet if he wins or she only wins one state by a small margin, there will be more Obama endorsements next week. The Democrats want this over.
If this race continues Hillary will just hurt the party with her negativity.
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I have here a list of known Obama sympathizers!
Perhaps Mr. Axelrod can appear live on MSNBC sweating whiskey from every pore and wave his list of superdelegates in front of the cameral (fast enough not to notice it's his grocery list) and then proclaim that Obama's campaign is infiltrated and supported by the superdelegate conspiracy. You know the conspiracy; the very same that Mr. Axelrod accused of subverting the will of the popular vote. I guess Obama was against superdelegates before he was for them. Kind of like his statements on NAFTA, healthcare and sudden lack of compassion of majority votes that gave him more delegates than the majority voted for in Nevada and possibly more than the Texas majority may give him in Texas. He's for the people, unless he needs to be against them.
When people started speaking up about how Obama's speeches were long on "feel good" yet short on "do good" I expected Barak to respond with a clear message about what he intends to do. All I got was a lousy T-shirt that said "I would have voted against the Iraq War." Great! For those who intend to vote for him I suggest you also vote for federal spending on a time machine so he can go back and stop the war. While he's at it, maybe he can score some points telling us how, if a senator, he would have voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Boy that would surely erase 50,000 American and more than a million Vietnamese dead, now wouldn't it?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am so tired of B.S., as in Barak Speak.
No longer anonymous by declaration of the gal with the football.
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This "Hurt The Party" Line
Is getting a bit tedious. When was the last time the democratic party fought for anything. Fight Hillary. Grow a pair.
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The problem is...
...Hillary Clinton for all purposes is working as the Republican's attack dog. Everyone expects the Republicans to go as dirty and low as possible, but its a different story to get hit with that shit from your own party. Politics is a tough business, but she's aiding the enemy at this point.
She's not mounting a strong campaign of ideas (healthcare?! please, she turned that into a debacle in '93, Iraq? she's certainly beginning to change her spots on that one). She's mounting a campaign of personal destruction.
The Democrats have to seriously consider November. Clinton would lose young voters and independants in droves. Her name on the ballot would energize the Republicans...and importantly, she'd provide no help at all to the rest of the ticket.
So 50 super delegates will come out for Obama? Great. they should have done that after Wisconsin. Dean, Pelosi and Gore should have weighed in then as well. Clinton has been on an ugly smear campaign since losing Wisconsin. The Democrats have themselves to blame for this. Obama is the kind of figure a political party can rebuild itself around. Hillary clinton is just the opposite. She will guarantee a Republican in the White House for years to come.
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super delegates fly away
These 50 super delegates need to come out in support of Obama before the end of this evening's drama. The harmful attacking of Clinton against Obama has gone on long enough and now the results are clear: even if Clinton wins both Ohio and Texas by slender margins, she will pick up only a handful more delegates than Obama does. He will continue to pull away from her in the total count of pledged delegates.
Only if Clinton can pull off gigantic wins (65 percent and more) in all the remaining states including Texas and Ohio will she be able to reel in enough delegates to overcome Obama's lead.
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their party. A gracious withdrawal will confirm Clinton's position as the savior of the party, ensuring her a key role for decades to come, whereas a contentious and bitter donnybrook will only serve to damage the eventual nominee for the fall general election.