A helpful reminder from Politico: Hillary can’t win
posted at 3:55 pm on March 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A bit of subject-changing damage control post-Wright, but true enough. The media’s pretending that the race is close because it gives them something to write about and we’re pretending it’s close because it prolongs the bloodsport and gives Hillary a chance to weaken him with attacks conservatives lack the Absolute Moral Authority to make, but the math is what it is. She’d need 60% of the delegates in every primary the rest of the way — including do-overs in Florida and Michigan, which ain’t happening — to barely overtake him. Her own advisors put her chances at 10%. Unless it turns out he was Client Number 10 in that Spitzer hooker ring, the one and only chance she has is to blow him out in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Indiana, thereby proving that the Wright thing has effectively destroyed him for the general. Anything short of that and we’re rid of her forever.
I shall shed no tears.
[E]ven some of Clinton’s own advisers now concede that she cannot win unless Obama is hit by a political meteor. Something that merely undermines him won’t be enough. It would have to be some development that essentially disqualifies him…
To foster doubt about Obama, Clinton supporters are using a whisper and pressure campaign to make an 11th-hour argument to party insiders that he would be a weak candidate in November despite his superior standing at the moment.
“All she has left is the electability argument,” a Democratic official said. “It’s all wrapped around: Is there something that makes him ultimately unelectable?”
But the audience for that argument, the superdelegates, will not easily overturn the will of the party’s voters. And in fact, a number of heavyweight Democrats are looking at the landscape and laying the groundwork to dissuade Clinton from trying to overturn the will of the party rank and file.
The exit question that will be asked forever: Why didn’t she push the Wright stuff sooner? If you believe, as most of us do, that the Clintons’ highest moral principle is accumulating political power then logically she should have dropped this to stop the bleeding when he was blowing her out in primary after primary last month. It would have risked a backlash among black voters, particularly given the hackles raised over some of BJ’s choicer remarks in South Carolina, but a good Machiavellian like her surely prefers a risky strategy for victory to a safe strategy for defeat. Can it be that she held off because she really is concerned about racial polarization within the party, even if it means ruining her chances to achieve her life’s ambition? Our Hillary?
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Party poopers. Don’t wanna be confronted with reality just yet–I want more bloodsport!
aero on March 21, 2008 at 4:02 PM
No. Maybe it was a calculation that had to do with traction. In other words, maybe the Clinton camp thought following the Obama spin of the LBJ comments as racist in tone and the Bill Clinton dismissal of Obama’s victory in SC by likening him to J.Jackson, that there would have to be some space of time and an intermediary narrative or it would have been dismissed as just another Clinton trick…instead of a real Obama problem. I don’t know.
Spirit of 1776 on March 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I think she just made another mistake. Considering the poor way she has run her campaigne thats understandable.
Wyrd on March 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM
You are such a joker.
MB4 on March 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I’m just at a loss as to why she would have held back. The exit question is a serious one. Since when do the Clintons pull their punches?
Allahpundit on March 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
What happens if the dim convention is deadlocked by the
royalistsuper delegates if Hillary continues to “Surge” in this the last quarter?Can anybody say “Goracle the Oracle” to the rescue. Not sayin’, but … … …
MB4 on March 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Also maybe she thought the latino vote, being demonstrated in California and Nevada, would be enough to blunt Obama’s string of victories sans Wright. Maybe Wright is just the weapon that is now being used to give superdelegates reason to reject him and chose her. It would fit the timing as the electorate, realistically, can’t give her a victory now.
Spirit of 1776 on March 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM
They knew they had their own Wright problem? Clinton met with wright during his term; and Hillary has made her own plantation remarks in the past as well. If it’s too apparent; it smack of politicization and wouldn’t have had the effect.
lorien1973 on March 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Since when do the Clintons pull their punches?
Since not doing so turned around and bit ‘em on the tush.
Tony737 on March 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM
When they think that someone else will throw them for them?
MB4 on March 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Maybe she didn’t have much of an opposition research team a few months ago, back when she thought the primary was just a formality.
Slublog on March 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM
If the Obama vote so far in the Demo primaries has been ( among White voters ) mostly an anti-Hillary vote, then HUGE numbers of Dems are going to either sit the election out or vote for McCain.
They didn’t want Hillary but a lot of Dems will also not want The Messiah–or prefer McCain to OBH
Janos Hunyadi on March 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Up until now, I believed Hillary would be easier for McCain to beat in the general election, but with Obama’s racial views made public, I am pulling for Obama now. He’ll get clobbered in the general.
txsurveyor on March 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Wright’s sermons and political positions have been out there a long time. It’s not like someone had to dig them out of a deep, dark, well-guarded vault. Wright and his/Obama’s racist church were out there the whole time, but the media wasn’t interested in running with it since they were so deeply in the tank for Obama at the time. It could be that the Clinton campaign has been trying to subtly push the Wright story for a long time, but the Obama-friendly media wasn’t biting until he had the nomination pretty much locked up (and SNL shamed them into subjecting the Messiah to a little more scrutiny). If the media wouldn’t run with it, the only other option would have been for Clinton herself or one of her people to just come right out in a press conference and point an accusing finger directly at Wright or run video clips on one of her web sites. I don’t think that would have gone over well at all. She needed somebody else to take that ball and run with it, and the media wasn’t playing ball.
aero on March 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM
The media would find some way to spin that, too.
amerpundit on March 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Maybe her, like the rest of the far left, didn’t see the problems with Wright? Or, maybe she was relying on a curiouser MSM to drop the Wright bomb without her having to get her hands dirty and she realized too late just how far the MSM is in the tank for The Messiah?
p0s3r on March 21, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Maybe, but haven’t various right-wing outlets had these story for a significant period of time? Like several months…Perhaps my memory fails me, but it seems that this story has been batted around in the background in conservative circles and only just recently broke to the forefront of MSM.
Spirit of 1776 on March 21, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Wright was an effective but dangerous play for Hillary. It was basicly a Hail Mary, which you don’t call until it’s 4th and 20 late in the game. And because she was surrounder by sychophants (sp?) she only recently realized what dire straights she was in (e.g. her campaign noticing the Texas caucus rules two weeks before the caucuses)
BuzzCrutcher on March 21, 2008 at 4:14 PM
I’m sure they would find a way to Blame Whitey ™ which would justify any nefarious deed by their Messiah.
p0s3r on March 21, 2008 at 4:14 PM
The only thing I can think of is the “once bitten, twice shy” principle at work. Keep in mind, for the longest time, any time she went at him, the media went at her in an aggro way, and it didn’t sell with the Democrat primary voters. It has only been recently that the media has given her any breathing room.
doubleplusundead on March 21, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Well, not exactly. She’ll still be a senator from New York. It’s only fair that you’re still stuck with her, AP — after all, I’m still stuck with her two protégés, viz. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. They follow her around like a couple of puppy dogs.
CyberCipher on March 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Campaign internal disorder makes sense, actually. There have been several stories about arguing in the camp about exactly what strategy to pursue, which message to put out etc. Perhaps this falls in that category…
Spirit of 1776 on March 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Think I’m almost ready to place my money on McCain.
Seixon on March 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Don’t you know Jesus ministered to the prostitutes?
Mrs L on March 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Answer me this: Isn’t Wright (and Rezko) enough?
Exactly what is required to prove that Obama is nothing more than slick packaging? A Harvard Law graduate who goes to work “community organizing”? A “clean”, more articulate & educated version of Jackson & Sharpton? A tone deaf rube who sat in the pew on Sundays oblivious to the character of his mentor-pastor? A Chicago machine politician with all that that implies? The 100% bona fide liberal passing for something other than what he IS? A man who has no problems cavalierly downplaying the fact that he is half-white?
If the electorate can’t see the bad apple in this barrel then we are in god-almighty trouble, my friends.
To (paraphrase?) The Who: “Meet the new Boss/Same as the old Boss”.
thegreatbeast on March 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Since Obama is the nominee, does anyone think the Wright and “typical white person” controversy will weaken him at all, enough for McCain to win?
ThePrez on March 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM
The people who Obama lost for good don’t read Politico, damn sure don’t read Kos or HuffPo, and don’t care about CNN/Matthews/Olberfluffer. They have four more weeks to hear about what Wright actually said and get pissed. These aren’t caucuses with apparatchiks & cheerleaders (or whatever happens at those stupid, stupid exercises), these are person w/ pen alone in booth. I look for Hill to take all three – not all Dems prefer Kool-Aid to beer. Yeah, she’ll still be behind, but the point will still have been made.
rhodeymark on March 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Especially with that..Double Chin
Liberty or Death on March 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Team Hillary is in Shock.
They thought they had it made.
They were/are shocked that Obama has come this far.
And I believe she held her punches because she has far worse things in her closet.
And/or because she thought it would lose the black vote for her. She needs to be seen as on the same side of the Mr. Wright…
Whatever it is…..I am very much looking forward to her concession tears.
bridgetown on March 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Aero, ain’t it weird that an SNL bit seems to have played such a pivotal part in changing the dynamic of MSM coddling of Obama? Weird.
thegreatbeast on March 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Um, I’d guess that Hillary wanted Obama as a Vice Presidential candidate and didn’t want to damage him because of that. She expected him to quit, he didn’t, now she’s attacking.
ThackerAgency on March 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Clinton didn’t have a campaign strategy after Iowa going into Super Tuesday, IIRC. That’s when whats-her-name, Patty Stollis, spent all of the campaign cash on good times and not paying attention to what was really happening on the ground.
cjs1943 on March 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Weirdest election cycle ever.
I detest the Clintons, but will vote for Hillary in the NC Primary as part of Operation Chaos. The more damage they do to each other, the less likely they are to win the general. But then, in the end I’m still stuck with a stinker of a presidential choice.
tickleddragon on March 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I’d say you just about nailed it.
Typhoon on March 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Neither can Obama! >:D
Chakra Hammer on March 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Political scientists have longed used Richard Nixon as an example of someone without charisma or charm could be elected president if he hit the right issues at the right time and had the right opponent. And that may all be true. But Hillary Clinton is proving the exception to the rule. Her personality is so shrill and her basic meanness so obvious that even if the majority of people are willing to vote against the Republicans this year, her personality is so egregious and her dishonesty and her husband’s dishonesty so brazen that unless Obama is found to be the third guy in the McGreevy’s bathtub, Hillary is toast. I am fearful of Obama. He is after all, Al Sharpton with a Harvard accent, But the joy of seeing the fall of the House of Clinton, makes me joyous as heck. I haven’t been this happy since the Giants won the Superbowl (Nothing against Tom Brady but if he is dating Giselle, then he shouldn’t get the Superbowl trophy too!)
Larraby on March 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I’m vacillating between which candidate would be a bigger disaster for the Dhimmicrats. I just wanna see a convention fight.
Mojave Mark on March 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM
He can’t win it either, hence, the superdelegates come into play..they will be used for the purpose for which they were created.
Pam on March 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM
For all of you atheists out there, this proves that there is a God.
cjs1943 on March 21, 2008 at 4:35 PM
I have been wondering why Hillary didn’t drop this after SC for a week now.
jp on March 21, 2008 at 4:38 PM
The Clintons’ problem is one of arrogance. They are a monopolistic entity that failed to recognize the threat of an innovative/trendy competitor. They were slow to adapt when the threat became apparent. They believed that their pragmatic product would continue to sell. HRC positioned herself as a centrist as soon as she reached the Senate. Her chief concern was that she would be attacked from the right on national security. She did not fear being attacked from the left, because they assumed that any such attacker would flame out in Iowa, just as Dean did when his grassroots momentum failed to materialize. HRC spent six years setting up her general election run, never planning to compete in the primary. After Obama won Iowa, their response was colored by their arrogance that they would still win the primaries, but they were concerned that their actions would cost them votes in the subsequent general election. Hillary has lost the nomination because she has always been running as if it were November.
rw on March 21, 2008 at 4:39 PM
You forget that Obama already has survived a Client #10 situation: the accusation of gay sex and coke/crack use in a limo.
The media never touched the story, not even with a ten-foot straw.
wordwarp on March 21, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Sometimes hate blinds people.
I understand how much the Republicans hate Hillary but the other choice is worse.
In my opinion, if I really care about America and I know that the Republican candidate has a slim or no chance at all at winning the Presidency, I would have chosen Hillary over Hussein.
I don’t carry any hate towards the Clintons.
I do care about the most qualified to govern.
I do care about experience and personality.
But I do not care about empty rhetoric, empty suits, media whores, opportunists, liars and America haters.
On one hand I don’t agree with Hillary on domestic policies and I know that these policies will fail (like Universal HealthCare), but on the other hand, foreign policy is what matters to me most. And I trust her to do a better job than Hussein…a lot better.
At least she doesn’t hate America.
Where is McCain in all this?
I don’t know.
I think he’s here in Florida somewhere looking for a Bingo Hall to prepare for his retirement in November.
Indy Conservative on March 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM
There’s still time for Hillary. I know the Michigan & Florida thing doesn’t seem to be happening, but does anyone here really think these two states are not going to somehow have their delegates seated in Denver? Michigan, with the labor vote and history, and Florida after Gore v. Bush?
Obama’s still ahead, but he’s bleeding. It’s not a slam dunk, but I still think Hillary will pull it off in the end.
I’m afraid she can win the general, too (God, I hope I’m wrong!)
cs89 on March 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Hardly. But it’s only in hindsight that we see what the reaction to Wright was. She could not have been in any way certain. I think Spirit of 1776 has it right. It was a desperate bid on Clinton’s part to save her campaign. Fortumately for her, it worked. We’ll see in a month if it was enough. She may even try something else to further weaken Obama.
jaime on March 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Allah, you underestimate the power of the dark side.
Zorro on March 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
My guess is that Hillary still has the mother of all skeletons locked away in her closet, and Osama Obama’s henchpeople have sniffed it out.
She wouldn’t hold back for no reason.
MrScribbler on March 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I’m anxious to see what the Clintons do when they lose. It probably would be a good idea to put on a steal pot and a flak jacket . . . then run like hell to get out of their bursting radius.
rplat on March 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Sometimes, magnificent bastards just aren’t enough.
lorien1973 on March 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Make that “steel”. I need to pay attention to detail.
rplat on March 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Indeed. I really do think the Saturday Night Live skits had a huge impact on when and how the Wright story finally dropped. I really don’t know if ABC would have done it without the shame and pressure created by SNL. Who would have though SNL could still be relevant?!
aero on March 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Could it be that her crack oppo research campaign didn’t bother clicking on the website of Trinity United Church of Christ?
Buy Danish on March 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Neither can Juan!
Oh, wait.
In a nation of only millions we had Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, etc and now this is what we have to choose from?
We are scroomed.
MB4 on March 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM
First off,to all who sail on USS Hot Air-Happy Easter.
Looks like Hillary is doomed,not by Hillary which is odd.
The media has thrown hillary under the bus,and nobody seems to care,Ha ha,oops were’s my compassion it’s Easter,almost
like as compassionate as Slick Willys was on Easter being serviced by Monica!
I think Hillarys campaign got torpedoed by Bill’s “Fairy Tale” comments and the besmirching of African Americans.
Who would ever dream that a Liberal democrat who was seeking the Liberal nominee would start a racial brush
fire.
Barrick Obama was the Liberal nominee,and its not over,it
seems with the media has “Chosen” Barrick.Never mind all the
racist comments,Mr.Wright and other pastors coming to light
in the way they preach hate.
Question? How in the world did a nominee process for a Liberal who is seeking POTUSOA get side-tracked into a
condemation and a race trial on the United States of America?
How did Obama with the media hijack this political process,
the media in the way this is going already has Obama as
President.Obama is already saying the Americans need to come together.
Wait a tick,what about the other 50% of African American’s
that aren’t lefty’s,who don’t see America as on trial for
being so-called racists,and again thank-you the Media.
So how and the H!LL did an aspiring Liberal candidate get
to go past nominee,and launch into we hate America,and how
did this become such a distraction,this reeks of Hillarys
tactics of when the spotlight is on you,and its true a
grand distraction is in order!
Can we please get back to the election process!
canopfor on March 21, 2008 at 5:07 PM
I agree with others that Hillary just simply made a mistake.
You have to realize that she is not the smartest woman in the world–not by a long shot. From what I have read she valued loyalty over competence in her staff and it was part of her undoing. There was a lot of conflict internally as to how to market Hillary. Neither she nor her staff had the understanding to grasp what was going on with Obama and with the voters.
IMO she has never shown that she’s an executive. When she was working on health care during Billy J.’s term I think she demonstrated that she doesn’t know how to handle people or ideas.
INC on March 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM
AP,
Thanks for the Update link. Sadly, I will have another semi-new angle up in about an hour at Protein Wisdom.
Karl on March 21, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I’ve now been told that McCain can’t win, Obama can’t win and Hillary can’t win in that order. Can anyone win?
aengus on March 21, 2008 at 5:24 PM
What I believe is missed by many is that Team Clinton has never been that shrewd. But up until now, they have have the monolithic press behind them every step of the way. Scandals were poo-pooed. Lies and half-truths were accepted as gospel. The press was their hitman. All of a sudden, the MSM chose the new Messiah, and Hillary lost her biggest asset.
It matters not. The MSM will rally around Obama like nothing we have ever seen come the fall. But we angry white men are going to put McCain in office. None of this Wright and Rezko and throwing the white grandmother who helped raise his ingrate ass under the bus is going away because some liberal elites declare that it is “done.” McCain wins the general by 5 to 7%.
Sugar Land on March 21, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Can’t we pretend a while longer, before we have to face the reality that we don’t have a candidate worth a plug nickel …
tarpon on March 21, 2008 at 5:26 PM
I’m also of the opinion that Clinton didn’t want to damage the Messiah as he was the likely VP for the ticket. The fangs didn’t come out until she realized she was likely going to lose and he wasn’t going to bow out gracefully and agree to be her #2. Hopefully, she’ll continue a scorched earth strategy for the forseeable future. If she wants to be President, she has to make sure the Messiah loses in November. I guess we’ll see just how Machiavellian the Clintons actually are in the next few months.
Laddy on March 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM
A revote may be out of the question in MI, but I am not so sure a successful lawsuit against the DNC, won’t get those delegates back into play. Dean allowed NH to move their primary up without any punishment, yet stripped MI and FL of their delegates, for doing the exact same thing.
Pam on March 21, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Hillary built her reputation as being ruthless on her bimbo-eruption control. It could be that she kept that work between herself and one of her many now dead friends. She’s now too busy to do that work, and all her friends are now too dead, so she has no one on her staff that is inclined to making the right kind of phone calls. We saw how clumsy the race-baiting was in the earlier primaries, so maybe she shyed away from further alienating a voting block that she needs to turn out in a big way in November. Now is just a either a Hail Mary throw, or more likely, a doomsday weapon for the Democrats who let her down on her coronation.
pedestrian on March 21, 2008 at 5:46 PM
If I remember correctly, the Queena Burrita was gone a month ago…but it was still sort of a recent change then. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a mixture of change of command and simple incompetence.
Lockstein13 on March 21, 2008 at 6:12 PM
“Unless it turns out he was Client Number 10 in that Spitzer hooker ring, the one and only chance she has is to blow him out etc”
That sounds rude. I don’t want to think that thought.
Apeking on March 21, 2008 at 6:17 PM
This assumes it was the Clintons that started the Wright story. I thought this was a story introduced by the vast right wing conspiracy — precisely dropped for maximum effect. Obama was too far along to be caught by Hillary, but the scandal could give her hope and cause the super delegates to swing the election her way — creating the worst brand of identity politics and ripping the party asunder in the process. Mission accomplished.
The story may not have been known by the Clintons (unlikely), they may not have realized its power (possible), or maybe they were worried about the story boomeranging on them for whatever reason — dirty trick, Billy Jeff’s photo with Wright, loss of black votes in general, etc.
tommylotto on March 21, 2008 at 6:36 PM
If I were Obama, I’d wear a bulletproof vest 24/7 and hire a food taster.
aero on March 21, 2008 at 6:47 PM
If I were Bill Clinton, I’d wear a bullet proof vest 24/7 and hire a dicktaster.
mcgilvra on March 21, 2008 at 6:57 PM
IMHO, because it ruins your chances for the general election. You might win the primary with this but you will alienate black voters that you need in the general and in some states that she thought, and did, get black voters to vote for her. It only became a viable option when 90% of the black voters were voting Obama and Hillary was getting desperate.
bnelson44 on March 21, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Yeah, well it’s still fun to wish and hope and dream. All I have left to say is….Come on, Pennsylvania!
JustTruth101 on March 21, 2008 at 8:10 PM
I won’t believe she’s done until I see her legs sticking out of the bottom of the house that fell out of the sky.
Let’s not forget that the 1986 Red Sox had won the World Series, and the 2007 New England Patriots were going 19-0.
She is entitled to the nomination, She has sacrificed her entire adult life for this prize. And damned if she doesn’t get it, by any means possible. Anyone know where I can get some popcorn futures?
Del Dolemonte on March 21, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Remember…she’s a big lib. What makes you think she saw anything wrong in what Wright had to say? Maybe it never occurred to her that it might represent a kink in BO’s armor. She might have seen that it wasn’t a strength of his campaign, but not really picked up on just.how.bad Wright’s sermons really were.
Just a theory…I really don’t understand it myself. I think she’s deceitful and maniacal, but definitely not the Smartest Woman In The World. She’s been given far too much credit on intelligence.
pecan pie on March 21, 2008 at 9:32 PM
A “whisper campaign” to steal the nomination from Obama? Oh yeah, that’ll go over like a lead balloon with the Black lobby.
I’m not usually a huge fan of racial vengence. But if African Americans finally decided to return the favor that Democrats paid them in the century following the Civil War, I might be willing to put up with just a few more lynchings.
logis on March 21, 2008 at 11:04 PM
It may not have been a question of why Team Hillary waited so long to hit Obama with the pastor problems, but that, in the wake of post-Iowa Obamamania in the media, they couldn’t find a source that Democratic voters would listen to.
People watching Fox News may have seen Sean Hannity talk about this with Rev. Wright a year ago, but no Democrat is going to get anywhere citing Fox as a source for Democrats. They had to get someone from one of “their” networks to pull the trigger, and finally — after Hillary’s wins in Texas and Ohio and the SNL skits embarrassing the media over their fawning support for Barak — ABC’s Brian Ross did the story, and that broke the logjam (And for all the talk of other ministerial land mines out there for Obama, if nobody but Fox says anything, the Clintons will be facing the same problem as with the Wright sermons).
As for Hillary’s chances, I think a lot of people see her as the political equivalent of the Soviet Olympic basketball team at the 1972 Olympics. They lost that title game twice in the final seconds, only to have the referees make up excuses to give them do-overs, until they finally uncorked that full-court pass to Alexander Belov for the winning lay-up. We can’t see what’s going on behind the scenes, but until they gavel Obama as the nominee in Denver, it’s hard not to think the Clintons will find some rule to re-run part of the process (Florida, Michigan) until they get the outcome they want.
jon1979 on March 21, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Yes, she can — by talking about the total popular vote. All she has to do is say, “More voters went into the booth and pulled the level for me than for Obama.”
By the end of the primaries, this may be a true statement (including MI & FL.)
In a sense, she will have won the popular vote. It strains credulity (especially in MI) but it isn’t a lie (in the Clinton sense).
The Dems refusal to seat the MI & FL delegates doesn’t mean Hillary can’t talk about the votes.
Pythagoras on March 22, 2008 at 2:12 AM
With a Sh!t eating chesher cat grin in the lead picture proves she is as phony as her grin.
MSGTAS on March 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM
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