Hillary's Options
Getting smoked by Obama in North Carolina and barely squeaking by with Rush Limbaugh’s assistance in Indiana has not deterred the Energizer Bunny in her race to assured destruction of her campaign and probably the Democratic party in November. She’s staying in the race for one of two reasons:
First, she knows she can’t beat Obama on the math. So, she’s going to damage him as much as possible so he’ll lose in November to McCain giving her another chance to run in 2012, since he’ll likely be a one term president.
Second, she is working the nuclear option…that is, getting her supporters on the DNC Rules Committee to actually change the rules in their meeting on May 31, seat Florida and Michigan as they are, then pressure the supers to support her because the math would be a closer. Her supporters make up about 50% of the committee.
Personally, I believe that her chances of charming, arm twisting, and/or threatening members of the the Rules Committee were slim at best. If she had made a better showing in Indiana she could have done that, but now it would be almost impossible, even though I think she’ll try. Lord knows she’s tried everything else.
I believe she’ll stay in to do damage to Obama until the party elders finally tell her to shut up and sit down. That’s going to take a lot of moxy, though, something most of the party leadership doesn’t have. Confronting her can’t be fun. However, once he passes her on super delegates, also, then they’ll have almost no choice but to call her off.
Confronting her can’t be fun.
Can you blame’em? I hear James Carville bites…..AND he’s rabid.
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Rasmussen is usually dead-on in its polling, though. I think this post is relevant, and deserves the upvote because of it.Rasmussen is highly esteemed, so any breaking poll from them deserves to be heard.
“sooner rather than later”? Wasn’t that the excuse Bill Clinton used? That he wanted to release information “sooner rather than later” and “more rather than less”? The time for party unity was months ago. Now we have a severe split in the Democrat party that will not get any better with time, but it is already too late to mend fences.
First paragraph states: “That’s little changed from earlier in the month when Clinton led 51% to 38%.”One Percentage point in each direction is not tightening, it falls within the margin of error. In fact, its hardly notable.
Just out of curiosity, how many Rush Republican Clinton voters won’t vote for Obama OR Clinton?And before the sniping begins about Republicans crossing over to vote for Obama, I don’t have a problem with anybody voting in any primary. I just want to know realistically how much havoc the Republican party is wreaking in the Democratic party, and how much they’re getting off on it.That’s the real reason why this crap on both sides has to end. And yes, there is crap on both sides.
At the urging of Rush Limbaugh to continue his “operation chaos” and vote for Hillary, Texas and Ohio both showed that 9% of Hillary votes were from Rush republicans. The Rush republicans will try to keep Obama out of the general election because they know McCain will beat Hillary.