Team Obama memo: Clinton will fall "terribly short"

The Washington Times ^ | Christina Bellantoni

[indcons]

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just put out this memo framing the contests tomorrow.

March 3, 2008 TO: Interested Parties From: David Plouffe, Campaign Manager, Obama for America RE: The Real Meaning of March 4th

Clinton Chief Strategist Mark Penn: "After March 4th, over 3000 delegates will be committed, and we project that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be virtually tied with 611 delegates still to be chosen in Pennsylvania and other remaining states. Again and again, this race has shown that it is voters and delegates who matter, not the pundits or perceived 'momentum.'" [Mark Penn memo, 2/13/08]

Clinton aide Guy Cecil: "We think that at the end of the day on March 4 we will be within 25 delegates." [Politico, 2/13/08]

Howard Wolfson: "I Think We Will Be Ahead In The Delegate Race After Texas And Ohio." [Clinton campaign conference call, 2/11/08]

New York Times: "Clinton advisers have said Mrs. Clinton must win the Texas and Ohio primaries by at least 10 percentage points if she has any hope of catching up with Mr. Obama in the delegate count, particularly because he has shown momentum recently at picking up support from elected officials who count as superdelegates." [NYT, 2/22/08]

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By their own clear definition of where they expected and believed they needed to be after Ohio and Texas, the Clinton campaign will fall terribly short on March 4th.

[indcons]

I'm rooting for continued chaos in the Democrat Party.

[Squantos]

I have been peeking at the combined polls of the all those tracking the elections at realclearpolitics.com ........she is up in Texas by +0.3. Yesterday that was a tie on the same average of all the polls. I look at and consider the polls yet take no real worth in em.

This rat race is still McCain’s too lose.......

[JustaDumbBlonde]

It is my desire to see Hillary out of the race ASAP. The impeached former President has no business in the people’s House again. The democrat party is going to come together as it always has — they have no real principles that would keep them apart. Get the woman out of the picture and then you know she is done. Wishing that she would remain is only inviting trouble in the future.

[Minnesoootan]

split the two and things will be set up perfect.

[Jacquerie]

A Chicago 1968 replay would be pleasant. Minus the injuries of course.

[Jacquerie]

Wishing that she would remain is only inviting trouble in the future.

Yes, like playing with a Ouija' Board.

[Caipirabob]

I'm rooting for continued chaos in the Democrat Party.

I just don't see how this ends in chaos.

They will be on the same ticket in the end. Regardless of what the other thinks.

The Clintons and the Gores weren't too happy about it either. It still happened. Michelle will have to swallow all that rage bottled inside another 4-8 years and deal with the White Bwitch...

[Para-Ord.45]

Hussein will fall short too.

Neither can win before the convention:

” A Democratic candidate needs to reach a minimum of 2,025 delegates to clinch the nomination outright. Clinton will not reach that figure before the last primary election is held in Puerto Rico on June 7. Neither will Obama. The Illinois senator needs 832 more delegates to reach the magic number of 2,025. There are only 981 remaining primary delegates that are up for grabs. Three hundred seventy delegates will be decided on March 4 and 611 will be divvied up across 12 primaries between March 8 and June 7. Obama would have to win an astonishing 85% of the remaining 981 delegates in order to claim the Democratic nomination outright. There are no winner-take-all primaries for the Democrats. Obama will never get the needed 832 delegates. He may fall short of reaching 2,025 delegates by as many as 250.

This means that neither Obama nor Clinton will tally the needed 2,025 delegates when the primary election season is completed. “

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12832

[2ndDivisionVet]

On another topic:

I just had a thought: All males born after December 31, 1959 by law have to register for Selective Service (aka the draft). Do we know if Senator Barack Obama registered? He was born August 4th of 1961. If not, why not?

https://www.sss.gov/Default.htm

[IMTOFT]

It’s funny you say that because I really hope she stays in the race until the bitter end. Please understand I completely share your utter contempt for the Clintons - he was a total disgrace to the office of the POTUS, and she would certainly be no better. It’s just the longer she drags this out, the more her true colors become apparent - the Clintons have NOBODYS best interest in mind other than themselves. (That was apparent to many of us about 15 years ago, but for some inconceivable reason, there’s a significant portion of the population that can’t see the Kool Aid for the glass). My hope is she drags this out so far that it does irreparable damage to the Democratic party, the Republicans retain the POTUS, and in the fallout, even their most ardent supporters turn from them...and we would be rid of the blight that is Bill and the Hildabeast once and for all...

I know, I know, wishful thinking on my part, but hey, you gotta have a dream, right?

[Muleteam1]

I was just called an hour ago by my Texas Republican sister-in-law who says she will vote for Hillary. The question is whether the lackluster support for McCain will override chaos in the Democratic Party. My guess is that the Democrats’ hunger for power will override most impediments to their success.

[Duke of Milan]

“...Wishing that she would remain is only inviting trouble in the future...”

You are one of the very few people who have any sense left. I have listened to Rush for years and, in the past, would not have called people Rushbots, but that is how they are behaving: “...oh I just want the chaos to continue...see I’m like really clever...like Rush ya know...I’m like super smart and sophisticated see...so that’s why I want Hillary to win...”

Hillary should be eliminated from the race as soon as possible — only FOOLS would talk otherwise.

[ari-freedom]

it’s different. you have these hard core moveon’s and black nationalists who will go nuts if there is even the smell of hillary cheating them out of the election.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Team Obama memo: Clinton will fall "terribly short"

This kind of heightist bigotry - clearly aimed at mocking Mrs. Clinton's stature - is a sad legacy of America's past and must not be tolerated. ;)

[COgamer]

“Hillary should be eliminated from the race as soon as possible — only FOOLS would talk otherwise.”

Hmmm... What possible motive could you have in helping Obama by trying to get Hillary out of his way?

[Paladin2]

H! is going to be shorter than Tom Daschle or Robert Reich?

[Paladin2]

H! is going to be shorter than Tom Daschle or Robert Reich?

[Paladin2]

More than a minute to post.

[TomGuy]

The big question is this:

If McCain flubs up and loses, which would be the more palatable: President Obama or President Rodham?

[Duke of Milan]

“What possible motive could you have in helping Obama by trying to get Hillary out of his way?”

Obama is hugely beatable...
Hillary is 100 times more dangerous than Obama, the Clintons and their crime machine won’t need training wheels, won’t need anything!! They will hit the ground running and start right where they left off! Selling secrets to the Chinese and anyone else. Obama is bad, but, he is still an amateur compared to the Clintons. Compared to McCain, Obama’s shortcomings and inexperience are even more glaring. Besides even if Hillary loses in Ohio and Texas(God Almighty I hope so) she will not quit. She will still try to take the nomination using superdelegates and THAT will make ‘68 look like nothing!