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Fact-checking Clinton's RFK comment
Set aside the controversy over what Hillary Clinton said about Kennedy's assassination -- do the analogies she used even apply to this race?
Alex Koppelman [2008-05-27]

  • @Karen22

    And I don't understand why Hillary even thinks she has to justify staying in the race.

    Speaking as an Obama supporter, I have zero problem with Hillary staying in the race through the remaining contests. What bothers me is that her campaign keeps moving the goalposts with regard to MI/FL and the number of delegates it takes to win. For example, the extremely disingenuous claim that Clinton leads in the popular vote, which is true only if you give her 350,000 votes in Michigan versus zero for Obama.

    This signals to me that Hillary won't back out of the race even if Obama does reach 2,026 delegates. Instead, she plans to press her case right up to the convention and initiate legal action, even if Obama wins the nomination according to the rules set down by the DNC at the beginning of the campaign.

    So I'm not bothered by Hillary continuing to run. I'm bothered by her campaign's transparent attempt to theft the nomination. And I hope this is just bluffing to keep supporters on her sinking ship.

    -- Mike LeP
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    Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:02 AM
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