Running Primaries Thread

The superdelegates have been surging towards Obama, with him netting something in the neighborhood of +50 since Super Tuesday.

She can't win. The only way for her to win is to rend the party in two and hand the presidency to McCain.

Clinton supporters need to face that, sooner or later.

 

Networks call Mississippi for Obama.

 

Oh, she can win. Never underestimate what she's willing to do to win. She'll go after Edwards' delegates, Obama's pledged delegates, Obama's superdelegates, the Michigan and Florida delegates, whatever it takes. Splitting up the party is not a concern. That's obvious at this point.

 

How long did it take? 30 seconds after the poll closures?

On Election Day, Republicans refer to the instant win as "Indiana."

 

Allow me to slightly rephrase.

She can't win any nomination worth having.

Can you imagine the margins in November if independents break heavy to McCain and any measurable percentage of black voters stay home?

It would make Nixon-McGovern look like a triple-overtime game.

 

She doesn't care. She'll worry about her standing in the general election later. She's perfectly willing to marginalize Obama as the black candidate if it means wiping him out. She has been doing it both subtly and overtly for weeks. The goal is to convince people Obama can't win enough whites in enough key places to get the nomination. See Ohio. This whole Ferraro flap will play big in certain parts of PA. I know that because I've lived there. Clinton knows it, too. That's why she won't distance herself from it. She wants certain voters to think Obama is some affirmative action case.

 

Which brings me back to my original point: Whatever tribal elders the Democrats have need to shut her down, before she fucks up the entire party.

Oh, and Gerry Ferraro needs to eat a bag of dicks, too.

 

I'm no big Hillary fan, but could you give me an example of her overtly doing this?

 

"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

 

That was Bill, no?

 

I believe you are correct.

 

So? You can argue varying degrees of surrogates, but you can't argue Bill doesn't speak directly for Hillary.