Posted on 06/04/2008 4:09:33 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Back when Sen. Hillary Clinton was just starting her campaign, top aides and advisers had a ready answer when asked if she could win the presidency."She's already winning," came the response, as repeated by chief strategist Mark Penn, campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe and other top aides and advisers, in memos, press releases and interviews as the campaign began more than a year ago.
It was a rejoinder that fit the "inevitable" candidate and for a long while, the response fit the facts.
Clinton, D-N.Y., occupied the race's top perch virtually until the voting started, with a campaign that was designed to hover above the opposition and break through with dramatic early victories that would end the campaign cleanly and quickly.
But her campaign, it would turn out, was based on a series of fundamental miscalculations about the mood of the electorate, the threat posed by Sen. Barack Obama and even the basic rules of the Democratic primary process.
In retrospect, the mistakes started with a faulty assumption: That inevitability itself could underpin the rationale for a presidential candidacy, even in the face of a deep Democratic desire for change and the wide enthusiasm that greeted a first-term senator from Illinois.
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I think the media won for obama. certainly they were completely out of bounds all week with the “hillary concedes” headlines.
I just heard she is going to SUSPEND, not end her campaign on Friday, doesn’t sound like someone trying to UNITE her party does it...lol
I can simplify this considerably although no one at ABC will thank me for doing so. Hillary lost because the MSM support that placed her husband in office and on which she was certain she could count, found a more romantic object of their collective affections in B. Hussein Obama. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042008/news/nationalnews/clinton_to_drop_out_of_race_friday_113958.htm
CLINTON TO DROP OUT OF RACE FRIDAY
Post Staff Report
June 4, 2008 —
Sen. Hillary Clinton will drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination Friday, The Post has learned.
Her decision ends speculation about what she would do after Sen. Barack Obama captured the nomination yesterday.
I wonder which one of these two is the lesser evil?
Haters always lose.
Haters can not and will not EVER win in America.
You can take that to the bank!
It’s very simple: many voters just plain don’t like her!
Hillary lost because she thought if she won all the big blue states like the RINO relic she would capture the nomination. She had the RIGHT strategy in the WRONG party.
Interesting.....
Eight Reasons Why Clinton Lost
1. Clinton focused on the large states and neglected the small ones.
2. Clinton neglected important new donors in Silicon Valley and instead relied on her old Hollywood connections.
3. Clinton’s election campaign was still from the 20th century while Obama’s was from the 21st century and harnessed the power of the internet.
4. Bill Clinton’s vicious comments that often had a racial undertone.
5. Lack of Brutality: When the Jeremiah Wright tapes surfaced Clinton could have played them constantly in her campaign and seriously damaged Obama’s chances. She chose not to for fear of dividing the party.
6. She hesitated to distance herself clearly and convincingly from her vote for the war in Iraq.
7. Proportional representation hurt Clinton. In this campaign there was only one chance to build a lead among delegates: Super Tuesday. Had it not been for proportional representation Hillary Clinton would have been the Democratic nominee on February 6th.
8. Race beats gender: Clinton thought women’s rights were the core question for liberals. She was wrong. The race issue was.
http://blogs.dw-world.de/acrossthepond/michael/1.6528.html
Yeah, I think you nailed it, but let me add one other point: most middle Americans never bought all the Clinton BS in the first place. She was hated by a large percentage of the people, even Democrats — that’s a tough “fact” to square when you’re supposed to be inevitable and you’re supposed to have the media on your side. When the mainstreams saw that she was hated and Barack was adored, the shift heppened — and Billary’s corrupt ways couldn’t stop the momentum. As bad and awful as she was, I have no doubt she would have been a better president than Obama may prove to be — but let’s hope we won’t have to test that last hypothesis.
He's like a "DON'T" picture with the international 'NO' symbol over his face like you get with assembly instructions from IKEA warning you with pictographs not to insert a kitchen knife into an an AC wall socket.
Good LORD, is that man stupid. He was her campaign chairman? He's been telling it like it ain't for decades now.
Two things killed her chances. 1) Her vote on Iraq war 2) the voters wanted change so badly they would vote for any new face.
The nomination was taken from Hillary for the common good.
Hillary became a high level victim of affirmative action. - Tom
She wait too long to start getting info for a grassroots organization!
Probably thought she had a done deal going it. It also seems to have impacted her fund raising.
She lost because she is the most unlikable, meanest, rudest, most fake, and most arrogant person to run for President in decades.
Thanks for the new tag!
Golden words.
-PJ
LOL - Yer welcome.
Hillary is the experienced, competent, leftist extremist.
I'm not sure that answers your question.
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