She has a point here:
The pressure was on Clinton today to win by a large margin. Clinton won 53 percent of the vote, to Obama’s 47 percent, with 18 percent of the precincts reporting so far.
“Hillary Clinton needs a clear and convincing victory today in Pennsylvania if she wants to continue on in this nominating process,” Democratic strategist Tad Devine told ABC News this morning.
“If she wins by 10 points or more, it will be viewed as a clear and convincing victory, but if it’s closer than that, it will be less than a clear and convincing victory,” Devine said.
Speaking to reporters in Conshohocken, Pa. today, Clinton rejected that common argument, saying “a win is a win.”
“But maybe I’m old fashioned about that. But you run a very competitive race at a considerable financial disadvantage. I think maybe the question ought to be why can’t he close the deal?” she said, “Why can’t he win a state like this one, if that is the way it turns out?”
A very valid point. The MSM turned on her long ago and her husband has made mistake after mistake and still she survives. If they had a winner take all primary like the Republicans have she would already be the nominee, but noooooo. They are still duking it out, he can’t close the deal and I couldn’t be happier.
Keep tearing each other apart….couldn’t have asked for a better scenario for the Republicans.
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You devil of a lovable little fuzzball, I salute you Mr. Limbaugh. Chaos continues. On to Indiana and North Carolina and then the convention …
Re-enact 68. Yeeeee-Aarrrrgggghhhhh
i hope she keeps on winning just to make him crazy.
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Sure you could have a better scenario for the Republicans. We could, you know, have a candidate on the Republican side that won’t require huge nosepins and a barf bag afterwards.
Take a look at some of Hillary’s numbers outside of Philadelphia and Harrisburg. She is winning by numbers like 78% to 22%. Anyone who thinks Obama putting down Pennsylvanians didn’t have an impact, should look at the number in the Western part of the state. With 66% of the vote, it looked like he might win a total of 4 counties, 2 by big margins, 2 by relative small margins.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#PA
The mouse over county map is particularly interesting.
Clearly, Obama has trouble getting above the mid 40%’s in primaries in the largest states. Sure, he did well in Illinois, his homestate, and Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Wisconsin, South Carolina and the District of Columbia. But without the large black vote available in most of those state’s he wouldn’t have won. And the GOP vote in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina will give the win to McCain in those states in the general election no matter who the Democrat nominee is.
Hillary does have a strong case to make about the electability of Barack Hussein Obama. Unfortunately, the kool aid drinkers in the Dem party aren’t listening and the superdelegates are afraid of the kool aid kooks.
If I had to guess tonight, I would say Obama is the nominee and despite the Democrat’s best effort to engineer a primary system that avoids another result like McGovern/Nixon in 1972 that’s exactly what they will get.
Heck, in light of all the puff-pieces that have been done on BHO, and the amazingly short air-time that BHO foibles received in the MSM; it’s a statement the Hillary even won at all (right now with 95% reporting, it’s 55% HRC – 45% BHO). Not to mention the fact that two BIG states where Hillary won (Michigan and Florida for those who haven’t been keeping up on news), have had their results nullified by the DNC; there’s plenty of reason for her to stay in this thing all the way to the convention. Howard Dean’s attempt to force the hands of the super delegates not-withstanding.
Yes, this does present considerable breathing room for McCain, and definitely the two of them ripping into each other saves us the trouble. But, there’s the old chestnut about “there’s no such thing as bad press,” and McCain would do well to keep himself in the eye of the American public on a regular basis even before convention season.
Hillary reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python who keeps getting his limbs cut off refusing to acknowledge his mortal wounds …”it’s just a scratch!” he screams, as his arm falls. After all limbs are gone he’s left stomped… yet he yells from his torso “come back you coward, i can still fight!”
Hillary trails in the popular vote and, theoretically speaking, can’t overcome Obama’s pledge delegate numbers unless she gets near 80% in all the rest of the remaining state primaries! While that is possible, it’s very, very highly improbable. So, unless she becomes a god, or Obama dies, or is found sleeping with spongbob, he has already closed the deal.
So, on to Indiana and NC for the beheading.
It’s interesting that all of the “analysts” seem to hold an unspoken belief that all voters are putting their choice in the primary ahead of their party identity. The argument seems to be that Clinton voters will desert the Democratic Party for John McCain in large numbers if Obama wins, and that Obama supporters will do the same if Clinton is the nominee.
We’ve had closely contested primaries in the past, though not in the last few election cycles. Are there ANY historical examples (say, in the last 50 years) of the voter desertion assumed, but left unspoken, in this case?
Doug, I agree, but isn’t it amazing that Democrats are going to have to choose between the Black Knight and a man who wants to be President but has no problem following a religious leader who damns America; the nation he wants to lead?
Bill Shakespeare didn’t have it this good!
No worry, Scott.
Obama will be paired with another bridge-keeper shortly and this aptly depicts how their leadership capabilities will pair out: