Posted on 03/02/2008 7:53:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Supporters of Senator Barack Obama have suggested Senator Hillary Clinton bow out of the presidential nominating race if she doesn’t win in two big-state primary contests on Tuesday.
Influential Democrats have said they need to put together a unifying campaign for the presidential election in November.
Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont hold primary contests on Tuesday, and Clinton, having lost 11 straight contests, needs to win either Texas or Ohio.
Clinton, will have to dramatically exceed the results predicted by polls, which now show Texas sentiment as virtually even. Ohio voters tend to narrowly favour Clinton.
In the smaller states, Clinton holds a lead in Rhode Island polling, while Obama has the edge in Vermont.
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, said that Clinton would need more than narrow victories to remain a viable candidate.
He said on CNN: "Hillary Clinton has to win a big victory in both Ohio and Texas in order to close the gap on pledged delegates”.
Senator Dick Durbin, a fellow senator of Obama’s from Illinois, said that sheer mathematics would make it very difficult for Clinton to win the nomination, even if she broke even with Obama on Tuesday.
In a recent count, Clinton trailed Obama by 109 delegates, with 2,025 needed for nomination.
The four states voting Tuesday will award a total of 444 delegates, leaving just over 600 still to be decided.
L0L! Sure. She will just go away cuz they said purty please.
“Hell no, we won’t go! Hell no, we won’t go!” - Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Hillary alledgedly countered “a vote for Obama is a vote for Huckabee.”
Hey OBAMA! Listen up and listen good, we have been trying to get rid of Hillary for a very long time. Apparently, she doesn’t take a hint... but good luck anyway.
This race is getting nasty, now that the Shadow and Thunder Road have come out of the shadows to openly support the Queen of the Homosexuals...
Hillary bow out gracefuly. You have to be kidding.
Chelsea needs to do more with the super delgates than simply inviting them to breakfast. ;O)
Neither of them will have the delegates going into the convention so either one of them quits or there is a floor fight.
SHRILLARY would be crazy to get out since she is the tougher one to beat in the General and BARRY HUSSEIN may implode any day now.
Wouldn't that just drive more of them to Obama? LOL
Yes it is...John Kerry, Dick Durbin....hinting at Hillary being close to DEFEAT??? They better HOPE she loses cause if she ever takes power, those two will find themselves perhaps back in their home states twiddling their thumbs....
But it sure if fun reading about isn’t it???
Whoever is doing this doesn’t know the Clintons very well, do they?
Clinton will be the nominee. There, I finally said it!
Given a choice between Hillary and Obama, I’d have to go with the more devious and underhanded of the two. Obama is a blissful fool, while Hillary is a coniving, untrustworthy, self interested ego maniac.
Good Lord, why didn’t you give us a conservative candidate that we could back?
Yuck. I can almost see her man cleavage in that pic.
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