Video: Brokaw says Obama has 50 more superdelegates in his back pocket
posted at 1:55 pm on March 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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If it’s true, it’s good enough to wipe out her superdelegate lead in one fell swoop. So why keep it secret? Narrative, dear friends, narrative. If she flames out tonight and doesn’t quit immediately, he can drop this 50-lb. sandbag on her later in the week to make things look that much more hopeless. If she comes through, he’ll need something to break that wave of hack “comeback kid” stories to follow. A superdel stampede is just the ticket. I wonder who’ll lead it.
I tacked on an extra 40 or so seconds of Terry McAuliffe mindlessly repeating his brave-face talking points, just because it’s amusing to watch him squirm. If you’re bored, enjoy playing with CNN’s newest election widget — a handy, what-if delegate metric that lets you game out every possible scenario on the way to the nomination. Note that Hillary fails to clinch the nomination even in a hypothetical situation where she shuts Obama out completely in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and splits the remaining uncommitted superdelegates down the middle. For maximum realism, be sure not to move the slider for each state more than two or three degrees to either side.
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Watching McCauliffe squirm is ALWAYS fun.
Shirotayama on March 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Forget your question Tom – let me answer a completely different question.
jake-the-goose on March 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Them’s some big pockets Obama’s got… but when you’re an empty suit, there’s all that space inside that suit that’s gonna go to waste otherwise.
Frozen Tex on March 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Obama is the Dems chosen one, he will flame out like the cigs he gave up.
TroubledMonkey on March 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Obama is also holding back his fund raising numbers.
ninjapirate on March 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
That’s a pretty cool little widget. It shows just how hard this thing is going to be for Clinton. If he stays close, she doesn’t get the nom without superdelegates.
Slublog on March 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
McAuliffe looks like the Joker right after he fell into the vat of sulfuric acid.
The question is – who is a more vile, unwatchable human being?
The past head of the DNC or the present head of the DNC?
I can’t decide. At least McAuliffe attempts to pretend that he has a sense of humor and he appeared drunk in public a few times so I’ll have to give the edge to Terry.
NoDonkey on March 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM
I just love watching it when McCauliffe has nothing to say other than “…uuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh….”
They should have had Howie Dean instead. Would have been more entertaining.
pilamaye on March 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
How many superdelegates can dance on the head of a pin?
Frozen Tex on March 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM
The loyalty oaths start tomorrow if Clinton can hang on tonight.
Wonder how many potential cabinet seats and bureaucratic appointments will be dangled to freeze delegates for a few more weeks….
moxie_neanderthal on March 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM
I’ll admit I am that bored and I played the game as Allah said you should. Unless the superdelegates break her way I don’t know how she could win the nomination.
Lance Murdock on March 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
As unctuous as he is and difficult to watch, I did enjoy that.
JammieWearingFool on March 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
if hillary comes back; superdelegates will flow the other way. im not sure how this is interesting at all.
lorien1973 on March 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I played the game with the GOP as well. Huckabee could blow out every single primary between now and the convention and still not win.
Slublog on March 4, 2008 at 2:15 PM
I wonder if Brokaw was speaking to Austan Goolsbee
Pam on March 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Brokow with more anonymous sources.
snaggletoothie on March 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Obama gets the marxist narco-terrorist endorsement.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980316/posts
ninjapirate on March 4, 2008 at 2:18 PM
This from the man who cannot pronounce his “L”’s correctly.
Kini on March 4, 2008 at 2:19 PM
NoDonkey:
Actually, I think he looks more like one of the apes from the original Planet of the Apes.
IreneFingIrene on March 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
This is something that Obama’s campaign is dangling imo to stauch the bloodbath he has been getting in the media the last two days.
If Hillary even has a whiff of being able to pull this off, the supers will march in lockstep behind her.
Who would want to be on her BAD side??
Hillary will not quit because NAFTA gate and the Rezco trial is going to sink Obama.
The halo has slipped my friends….
MUAAHAHHHAHAAHHAAAAAAAA!!
ArmyAunt on March 4, 2008 at 2:26 PM
What a waste! Pimping out Chelsea and still not getting any delegates….
DaveHusseinS on March 4, 2008 at 2:34 PM
McAuliffe bags Global Crossing for millions.
Obama has Rezco.
Hillary has cattle futures.
It’s enough to turn you into a Democrat.
drjohn on March 4, 2008 at 2:39 PM
The PMSNBC crew aint going to be real happy after tonight. Billary is going to tighten this up, and announce the campaign will keep going. I suspect Olby, Mathews, and Russert will really turn up the heat. Hopefully, Saturday Night Live will be watching. They alone have brought down the Messiah in two weeks that it took these clowns six months to prop up.
THE CHOSEN ONE on March 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Isn’t Tom Brokaw a superdelegate?
MT on March 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Curious George?
JiangxiDad on March 4, 2008 at 3:27 PM
It neglects to let you play with Florida and Michigan, which will likely be “do-overs” on both the Democrat and Republican side. (You can’t have a “do-over” on only the Democrat side, becuase it allows those who “crossed over” and voted for McCain the first time to now vote a second time. You must wipe the slate completely clean and start over on both the Democrat and Republican sides.)
Red Pill on March 4, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Maybe on the Democrat side, but the Florida delegates are all Johnny Mac’s.
Slublog on March 4, 2008 at 3:32 PM
I couldn’t find the Clinton Bombshells anywhere.
Hey CNN, if you’re gonna introduce a game let’s include all of the pieces.
fogw on March 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM
So, to understand, Brokaw is the conduit of the Obama campaign for information or disinformation getting out to the public. The term “useful tool” comes to mind. What a schmuck. What a maroon. The lesser generation.
second digit on March 4, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Unless the DNC intends to pay for a do-over, I wouldn’t count on MI doing it. We couldn’t afford the $10 million we spent the first time..
Pam on March 4, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Let the schism(s) begin!
SouthernGent on March 4, 2008 at 6:13 PM
…”Brokaw says Obama has 50 more superdelegates in his back pocket” but BJ has 100s in his little black book.
Christine on March 4, 2008 at 8:16 PM
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