Clinton Having Trouble Meeting with Superdelegates

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[Miss Didi]

Rush is giving the NAGs a pep-talk now...all you have done for liberal men and this is the thanks you get! Barry's a GQ guy with a hen-pecking, angry wife...Mrs. Clinton could out run him with a hot flash. All she did for Clinton Inc. and Bubba stood there bored last night during her speech. All through the campaign, Bubba talked about himself while he tried to sabotage his wife's campaign. Rush also dared the Super Ds and Howard George Wallace Dean to give Barry the nomination now—just see how the women react. And what about the Hispanics who voted in Florida and Michigan—don't their votes count?

[MBB1984]

I don't think Rush saved anything except maybe some of his ego. Obama took a hit early, but it will be old news by the time he goes head to head with McCain, similar to the Jennifer Flowers situation with Clinton in early 1992. McCain would have a better shot if the Wright debacle unfolded in September.

[cosmic_me]

Hasn’t her spin doctors been at work with that strategy all along? It doesn’t seem to be working. They are either ignoring her knock at the door or flat out turning her down. The Wright issue has been played out. There isn’t anything more they can do with that either. Are they aware that she is just as likely to go down in defeat as the nominee? She says the stupidest things. She may end up making JM look like a genius. There are many Dim Senior adult men who privately don’t want to vote for her. The damage she has done loses her the youth vote. The educated vote. A core of the black vote. Some of these super delegates clearly see the bigger picture and realize she’s a sinking ship. Might as well see if this whole ruse of change from someone who can’t give you a solid answer on anything will work vs same ol same ol.

[kabar]

The point is that your projections of Hillary getting 60% of the vote in WV and Kentucky are very optimistic given her track record. She has only reached 60% or above once. She only received 57% in NY and 55% in PA. Obama has topped 60% or more 21 times.

[Bon mots]

Actually she can still go to the “Vince Foster Plan.”

Obama had better watch out.

[PapaBear3625]

Hillary has only one possible strategy left. She needs to show the super delegates that Obama is not electable in the general election. She can do that with polling but, more likely, it will involve politically crippling Obama with opposition research.

Which is what Rush is hoping for. An old proverb says "When two tigers fight, one will die and the other will be crippled"

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

The Clinton camp expects her to win at least 67% of Puerto Rico’s 1,000,000+ votes. Some internal polling says as high as 80%.

[varon]

Maybe she will never officially concede,

Right on. Her ego won't allow her to accept and acknowledge defeat. This way she can always spin that she won but decided to be magnanimous and defer to Barak.I would love to see this fiasco cost her and Bill a small fortune to be paid from the graft he's banked.

[varon]

At this point I don’t see how in heck anyone could be suckered into endorsing a check in support of her knowing it’s money put towards defeat.

Donating money to her campaign now is like buying a used lottery ticket.

[ProfoundMan]

I was ambivalent about the whole Operation Chaos thing at the outset. It seemed wiser to me to drive the stake through her heart whilst we had the chance but since that didn't happen, I'm growing more amenable to the idea that the best way to permanently put an end to the Clinton plague is to have the democrats do it as emphatically as possible. That seems more likely every day now. I'm "keeping hope alive".

[Republicus2001]

Is she afraid of Diane Sawyer asking her questions about the status of the campaign????Sawyer is pretty scary looking

[mimaw]

That’s very true, but Clinton supporters feel they need the government to do for them what they cannot achieve for themselves.

[normy]

Clinton got 43% of the vote in ‘92. If the Wright thing came out in September, the news wouldn't have been about Obama’s pastor but about the racists Republicans who can't win on ideas so they had to go into the gutter.

Instead the story was told because the Dems in the media worried it could damage Obama for the general and maybe they should start propping up Hillary however Obama made a stupid speech that impressed the media tremendously and they stuck with him. The problem for Obama though is that it didn't impress middle America and he is now branded a racist, America hating elitist all thanks to the Clintons and a worried media. This happened because Rush convinced enough people to vote Hillary just to keep the fight going.

[Dante3]

LOL

[pierrem15]

Even if she does that, the super delegates are not stupid: they know that the black vote will simply stay at home if Hillary gets the nomination, which would be a disaster for down-ticket dems.

Put most bluntly, it's better for the down-ticket dems (i.e., the super delegates) to keep blacks on the dem plantation and lose the Presidency than to lose lesser offices at the state or Congressional level.

They don't see a Clinton win as worth their own jobs. She and Bill have done a good job of throwing the party under the bus to satisfy their own ambitions the past 15 years, and they know it.

[kabar]

Too bad Puerto Rico can’t vote in the general election.

[Polyxene]

“Superdelegates do not want to meet with Clinton today.”

I don’t blame them. The Superdelegates are in a no-win situation:
Vote for Mrs. Clinton — risk being branded a racist
Vote for B-Hussein-O — risk Arkancide

[Cyropaedia]

What the Clinton's didn't fully grasp is that the Democratic party is a party in transition. We are already seeing the effects of "Clinton fatigue" among the rank and file Democrats.

These voters realize that it's time for the party to finally turn the page.

[HAL9000]

Why Arkansas loves Klintons is beyond me.

For the record, the Clintons were defeated in two elections in Arkansas. And there was a crazy old turkey farmer who got 31% of the vote running against Clinton.

McCain will win Arkansas in November.