Top Democratic officials said privately that Congressional leaders were content to have the race play out as long as it did not take on a negative tone. Attacks on Mr. Obama by the Clinton campaign or its surrogates could lead to a leadership push for superdelegates to show their hand and bring the race to a close, said aides, who did not want be identified discussing internal strategy.Read More......
PARKER: Looking at the rest of these primaries. Obviously, we're split 50/50. I mean, it's going to be important to see what happens at the convention. I'm looking to see who's the most persuasive on the economy. The numbers in drilling down through the CNN exit polls, the numbers are still not convincing as far as one candidate pitching their issues on the economy better than the other. I think that's going to make a difference in the fall.Kudos to John Roberts for trying to get a real answer out of the guy, but Parker wouldn't budge.
Earlier this morning I suggested perhaps a change from negative Clinton posts BUT later when I heard the reports that she is NOW doing the weirdest math and ONCE again moving the goal posts, I went ballistic. No One in this party seems to have the balls to step in and squelch this insane megalomaniac woman. Over the span of a few months I went from trying to be neutral to down right hate of this woman.Hillary already had enough baggage walking into this race, her negatives have always been sky high, but now she's making Democrats hate her. That isn't good. And it isn't the definition of electable. Read More......
Enough of her "I am the winner". NO she is not and self-proclamation doesn't make it so. You want to fight her all year, I am with you.
Exellent. You guys have gotten us to within 98 cents of our goal of raising $10,000 for Scott Kleeb. I suspect we're gonna reach our goal. :-) I just wanted to say thanks. This was great. You did it in 48 hours. Seriously well done. Here's your last chance to give (click on the blue box to give to Scott). I won't ask again. Well, I will, but not for Scott right now, we're going to move on to other candidates. Like Barack Obama. We need to seriously send a message to Hillary that she's not welcome any more. You can click here to give to Obama. We've already raised over $4,000 for Obama since last night. I'd like to shoot for $10k by the end of the week. Thanks again, JOHN
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) most prominent Senate supporters, said Wednesday that she will ask the former first lady to detail her plans for the rest of the Democratic primary.And across the Capitol, it's coming from a leading House supporter:
“I, as you know, have great fondness and great respect for Sen. Clinton and I’m very loyal to her,” Feinstein said. “Having said that, I’d like to talk with her and [get] her view on the rest of the race and what the strategy is.”
Clinton, who eked out a win in Indiana Tuesday night but lost big to front-runner Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in North Carolina, has not responded to Feinstein’s phone call, the California senator said.
“I think the race is reaching the point now where there are negative dividends from it, in terms of strife within the party,” Feinstein said. “I think we need to prevent that as much as we can.”
One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) congressional backers on Wednesday added to the mounting pressure on the former first lady to consider dropping her bid to become president.Again, these are Clinton supporters raising concerns. This is really bad news for the Clinton campaign. These members of Congress see the handwriting on the wall. They're just trying to make sure Clinton sees it. Read More......
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) told The Hill that Clinton should reassess her prospects after losing to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) by 14 points in North Carolina and edging her rival in Indiana in Tuesday’s primaries.
“I urge her to take the day off and think very seriously about doing what’s best for the country and best for the party,” said Kildee.
“I got straight A’s in math,” added Kildee, implying that Obama’s delegate lead would be impossible to overcome in the few primaries left on the Democratic calendar.
At a Q&A; in Shepherdstown, Clinton continues to make the case that her base -- working class whites, women, and Hispanics are the key swing voters.Hillary is saying that her base is better than Obama's base. And we all know who Obama's base is: Blacks (and elitist latte sipping pansies from San Francisco who don't have testicular fortitude, but Hillary doesn't mean gays, she means other effeminate pansies from San Francisco).
"The base I've put together in this primary is a stronger place to start from," she says.
And Garin brags, specifically and explicitly, about her strength with the white vote, comparing North Carolina's white voters in North Carolina to those in Virginia. (The conversations have always been about these voters, but they're usually referred to as "blue collar" or by some less specifically racial euphemism.)As Ben notes, the campaigns don't usually refer to "white" voters - so when they do, it's interestingly intentional.
"We lost the white electorate in Virginia, started even in North Carolina among the white electorate just two weeks ago, and ended [with] a very significant win of 24 points among those voters," he said, acknowledging that among black voters, Clinton "did not do as well as we would want or need."
PS If you've had it with Hillary's race-baiting, her scandals, and her bizarre need to continue destroying Obama even though she already lost, then give to Obama's campaign. Click the blue box at left and you can give a secure donation online. I want to try to raise $10k for Obama over the next few days. Hillary needs to be stopped. If the DNC won't do it, then our money and our words will. More to come. (We're also at over $7000 in our Scott Kleeb-athon, so give to him too if you can.)
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"Much of the rational for how she would win the nomination kind of went up in smoke last night.... What happened last night is the world changed out from under her and she had a big problem." - Dan Balz, Washington Post, on CNN, May 7, 2008Read More......
Only a press corps so enamored with McCain could imagine that one of the staunchest supporters of the Iraq War would be capable of breaking with the current administration's unilateral adventurism. Despite his conciliatory rhetoric, McCain's hawkish views, and his long history of castigating allies who do not agree with him, leave little reason to believe that when it comes to restoring America's image, credibility, and alliances, he would be much different than George W. Bush. A brief look at these four crucial policy areas explains why.This is a meme that needs to be corrected in its infancy, and the piece does a great job of patiently going through the reality of McCain's views. The whole thing is well worth a read. Read More......
"Absent some sort of miracle on May 31st, it's going to be tough for us," said a senior Clinton official who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to be frank. "We lost this thing in February. We're doing everything we can now... but it's just an uphill battle."So, they knew they lost in February, but decided to stay in to destroy Obama? Factor in all the money troubles and you have to ask why the Clinton team kept up its negative assault on Obama.
"There are going to be the rest of these contests, which are very significant, and then in June, if we haven't done it already, we're going to have to resolve Florida and Michigan," she told reporters during a daytime event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. "They were legitimate elections."Maybe they were legitimate elections in the Soviet Union or Iran, but not in the United States. This is when Hillary sounds like she's lost touch with reality. We learned last night that even if Michigan and Florida are now included - and included as is, meaning you give Hillary her phony victories - it won't change a thing, Obama still wins. NBC political director Chuck Todd, who is one of the most respected political analysts in town, said this last night (you can watch his video here, it's compelling to say the least):
"With leads like this now, if you throw in Michigan and Florida, as is, then Obama would still have about 150,000 votes and he would still have 100 delegates, pledged delegate, lead." - Chuck Todd, 1:13 AMHillary's only remaining argument for staying in the race is Florida and Michigan. But even if you give her those two states, she loses. She has no reason for staying in the race other than her desire to hurt the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.
A Clinton adviser said the situation was increasingly becoming one in which "she cannot be nominated and he can't get elected."Okay, consider the source. The Clinton advisers have been telling us she was going to be the nominee. They were telling us for a year that was inevitable. They butchered her campaign. So, be wary, very wary, of political predictions from any "Clinton adviser." They took a candidate who couldn't lose and turned her into a loser.
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This is not true. He did not contact Hillary or the Clinton campaign expressing a desire for her to drop out.As I wrote in the post last night, we like General Clark here at AMERICAblog. So, we are more than happy to post this denial for him and his staff.
We've just been told that General Wesley Clark, a strong Clinton supporter and fellow Arkansan, called Hillary tonight to tell her it's over."The biggest question: Will any of her supporters (including Wes Clark) say publicly or privately she should quit?"We like General Clark here at AMERICAblog, and have a bit of a history with him. So we hope what we're hearing is true. But the general better watch it - this could be his most dangerous mission to date. When you take on the Clintons, the sniper fire is real.
"With leads like this now, if you throw in Michigan and Florida, as is, then Obama would still have about 150,000 votes and he would still have 100 delegates, pledged delegate, lead." - Chuck Todd, 1:13 AM
But knowing the Clintons, the fact that there's no way for them to win won't step them from sabotaging Obama's race against McCain. If Hillary can continue to damage Obama, maybe she can make Obama lose in the fall, and then she can run again in 2012. Don't think that this isn't what her senior advisers, including her husband, are thinking. These people aren't Democrats, they're Clintons. They aren't interested in the party, they're interested in themselves, as they've clearly proven repeatedly over the past three months. Please give to Obama's campaign using the box on the left - just click it and it will bring you to a page where you can donate. The only way to stop this woman is through a massive response, and that includes beefing up Obama's coffers.We now know who the democratic nominee is going to be and no one is going to dispute it.This is it. The media finally turned on her. It's over. It's finally freaking over. I say this because the race was over 2 months ago. But the media kept it alive by pretending as though Hillary had a chance, when they knew she didn't. But, their pretending permitted her to keep going with a straight face. Now that the media is turning on her, she's going to have an impossible time continuing. If she continues to run the only question she will be asked from now on is "you've lost, why are you still in this race?" There is nothing she can do now. Yes, she can stay in the race, says she's not quitting until the convention in August. But now that the media has turned on her, good luck with that. Read More......
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