The Washington Post reports that Hillary Clinton is going to contest the election all the way until the convention and then try to win a credentials committee fight to seat the lopsided Michigan delegation (as well as Florida) and then hope the superdelegates take her side. I think this is mostly bluster…a way to try to stop the drip drip drip of stories calling on her to drop out of the race. But it’s definitely not what any Democrats wanted to hear (her diehards excepted).
If she were actually to do this she would badly undermine party unity as well as the perceived legitimacy of the nomination. And her chances of winning won’t improve one bit. It’s up to the party to preserve itself. They must find a way to avoid a convention fight.
The only thing we can do is whatever we can to help Obama win Pennsylvania. It’s an uphill climb for sure, but if Obama can somehow win Pennsylvania I think the Clintons really will drop out. It might even be the best thing that can happen to them, and their legacy.
Anyone have any polls more recent than 3/24?? I’m dying to know if he’s gaining ground. I can’t imagine he is not. He’s gaining nationally….
To be clear – I’m looking for PA polls.
3/28 – HRC 51 BP 39
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/
dang.
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● Rasmussen HRC 49 – Obama 39
● RealClearPolitics Avg HRC 52 – Obana 36
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."ooof! better, but…
Word!
The recent press over the question of whether Clinton should withdraw misses the main point, IMO. Even though there are strong arguments for her withdrawal, especially since victory appears unobtainable, it’s not as if there aren’t valid reasons for her to continue.
The main point is how the Clinton campaign has conducted themselves.
I, too, have pointed out that the only objective the Clinton campaign is achieving at this point is the harming of the eventual 2008 Democratic nominee. It would be different if Clinton and her campaign had conducted themselves as, for instance, John Edwards did.
Moreover, it’s hypocritical to profess certain goals and then act in a way that is destructive to those goals. The arguments the Clinton campaign have put forth, such as Hillary is the only person who can achieve certain goals, strike me as arrogant or disingenuous. I’m willing to entertain other possibilities for the Clinton campaign’s behavior, such as ego, etc., but alternative possibilities are becoming less viable.
Why should anyone care about the Clintons’ legacy, whatever that is? Well, I don’t. They just need to go away.
I feel the same way. They were tolerable, the lesser of two evils, in their two elections. But please. Don’t ask me to CHOOSE them for our nominee.
and Obama said it’s OK with him if she goes all the way. I thought that was a pretty classy move on his part,myself.
He’s been a class act throughout.
He is a practical politician and he was acceding to the fix if it is necessary and practical.
From a comment of mine posted elsewhere recently:
lol! It’s smart politics on his part to be classy.
His campaign knows what it’s doing. Get the attack out there from a surrogate. Then have the candidate takes the high road and back away from it. The subject of the attack is still out there. The candidate looks good.
Not many candidates can ever actually pull it off as well as Obama.
Every day I am more impressed with his political skills.
NO argument!
I view being classy as being smart.. period. Classy is always well received..but so few people bother with it. Mostly people like the instant gratification of the extended claws or the knife in the back.
She’s pretty much broke, and who knows how bad her cash flow is? The money she’s reported is part pledge, and the pledges may even walk on her. If she even suggests she’s out, or may be out, the money really dries out and she’s out.
What you need to do for the future is get the party to move the convention to the month of March. That way all the primaries would have been contested – Pennsylvania and all the others would have had their say and we can be done with all this bullshit.
Because the candidate is chosen at the convention. That’s where the delegates vote. Whether “pledged” or not, they have to cast their votes.
if she is building her hopes around making it to the convention so the credentials committee can make decisions, then we should worry. the 3 co-chairs of that committee are all beholden to Billary.
michaelmt is right. she’s broke.
check this out:
http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/deadbeat-hillary-cant-pay-her-bills/
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080213/NEWS/80213011
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/nyregion/23owe.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Clinton+AND+campaign+AND
+court&st=nyt&oref=slogin
The March finance reports should be out this week. She’ll have some ‘splaining to do. The nexus of TX, unpaid bills, smaller $’s coming in even during a month that included Rev Wight will paint a bleak picture going into April & PA.
It’s not going to help her w/the unpaid bills with new vendors in upcoming states who will start to request payments UP FRONT. That could be crippling.
Whenever I think about Hillary’s Campaign That Will Never Die(tm), this clip from the Clerks animated series comes to mind:
…nothing can kill the Grimace.
Andy Borowitz has been hilarious this election but today’s is especially good: Hillary vows to stay in race 100 years: