Is Hilary Clinton going to go away now, please? Please?!
(As of 10:17PM, Obama won North Carolina with a double-digit percentage lead, and Clinton is right now leading Obama with only a 4% lead.)
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Is Hilary Clinton going to go away now, please? Please?!
(As of 10:17PM, Obama won North Carolina with a double-digit percentage lead, and Clinton is right now leading Obama with only a 4% lead.)
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Last night, Obama netted 12 more delegates than Clinton, and more popular vote overall. That’s what matters. This Hoosier Bunny says…
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I wouldn’t count on her going away anytime soon (I don’t think you are!). She seems to get more desparate and pathetic by the minute. I almost feel sorry for her. I’ve heard some people speculate that her plan has been to see to it that Obama loses (with all her nasty attacks on him) to McCain in November so that she’ll be the Democratic frontrunner in 2012. I don’t know about that, but I certainly wouldn’t put it past her. If that’s the plan, she should realize that she won’t score her many points among either the general Democratic electorate or the party powerbrokers. Attempting to “swift boat” your party’s own (presumptive) candidate would generate ill will.
She definitely will not get out. The Clinton’s support is singularly crystallized in some areas of the Democratic Party, (i.e. old labor establishment, working class reps like Ed Rendel, etc. collar white W-C.)
Estimate in the Obama camp is she will try to seat both the Florida and Michigan delegations. That will place her almost at a dead heat with Barack.
The Clintons “will to power” (read that “get back into the White House at any cost”) is such an obsession with them that they will tear the Democratic Party apart to get back there.
If the Clintons can not “win”, then, in their view, “nobody” will win that has gotten in their way, especially Obama. Does anyone recall that Hillary had been anointed as the next President before the Iowa Caucuses? The Clintons assumptions as to their destiny to regain power knows no bounds. They really do think they are “annointed”.
This is scorched earth politics at its best. If Howard Dean thinks he can control the Clintons, he is living off the planet. The Clintons especially have no respect for him.
They will do “anything” to win. We have not yet seen the exponential level of political inside dirt, manipulation and downright intimidation from them. My guess? It will go to the convention.
Some very insightful political people are warning that we all are witnessing a massive shift in voting block loyalties in both the Democratic and Republican Parties. No one knows how this will shake out. But ten years from now, each Party will probably not recognize itself.