Posted on 05/08/2008 2:04:38 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each took a state Tuesday. But the result was a damaging loss for the woman who was once the overwhelming front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Here are some observations on the race:
- Mr. Obama is now the prohibitive favorite. Tuesday night, he took at least 94 delegates to Mrs. Clinton's 75 and leads the former First Lady by 176 delegates in the AP tabulation. He has 1,840 of the 2,025 delegates needed to win. Mr. Obama needs only 185 – or 38% – of the 486 outstanding delegates (217 to be elected in the six remaining contests, and 269 superdelegates yet to endorse a candidate). Mrs. Clinton needs 341, or 70% of those left to be awarded.
Mr. Obama understands this. On Tuesday night, he added a big dollop of general election themes and pre-emptive defenses against coming attacks to his stump speech. - Mrs. Clinton may battle until June and possibly until the convention in August. There's nothing Mr. Obama can or should do about it. After a long, bitter struggle, losing candidates often look for reasons to feel aggrieved. There is no reason to give her one. No pressure from Mr. Obama or party Chairman Howard Dean is better than pushing her out of the race.
- The Democrats' refusal to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations at their convention is an unresolved problem. If they insist on not seating these delegations, Democrats risk alienating voters in states with 44 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. And here Mr. Obama is at greater risk than Mrs. Clinton, especially in Florida. He trails John McCain badly in Sunshine State polls today, while Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. McCain there.
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I would have called it Obama the man with the idiot name and idiot ‘church’.
Anyone who loves the US should be boiling mad this joke has come this far.
I am deeply angry about this. I just cannot get over it! I don’t think I have ever been this angry about anything poltical before....well except 911.
But 911 is ‘old news’ it seems judging by all the clowns voting for the unmentionable.
Go Barack! Yay racism! gogogo!
He didn’t mention the Clinton factor in November. How hard will the Clintons work behind the scenes to undermine Obama?
Mad yes, incredulous, too. America has truly become dumbed down. Obama is the hip-hop candidate, nothing more. I fear for our future for the first time.
I’m glad to see that Hillary’s strategy of running against Bush in the Primary worked out so well!
There are quite a few Republican voters who I think voted for Obama in this last primary round. Some on FR have commented that the Hillary push may have gone too far, what with all the bad news about Obama coming out, and she could very well beat McCain. So, I suspect some Repubs voted for Obama.
She has whole bunches of flying monkeys out there to do her bidding, including the credentials committee members.
If she absolutely lays waste to the DemocRATS she could care less.
I would have called it, “Nature Imitating Art: Welcome to Alice in Wonderland” but nobody would have understood.
Me too, brother, me too......
I admitted it was a risk (voting for Obama in VA). But coronating Hillary would be just as bad. His views are more extreme for sure, but her inevitable appointments of RINOs and "moderate" leftist policies will hurt us for a longer time than anything radical he dreams up (won't pass or won't last).
If Pelosi and Reed stay in power with b. Hussein o., he will get practically EVERYTHING he wants.
If Pelosi and Reed stay in power with b. Hussein o., they will get practically EVERYTHING they want.
Fixed for you
That’s assuming he has a coattail and they didn’t get backlash for it 2 years later. Like I said, everything is risky right now, including my strategy of McCain over Obama. But the more baggage we find on Obama, the better that strategy is looking.
It does say something about the Dem party that its candidate has the name of a terrorist, a pastor who damns America, and a friend who is a member of the Weather Underground. Could the Dem candidate be any more anti-American?
Thanks.
Agreed. I’ll believe the nightmare is finally over when she gives her concession speech and not before. And we should finally be able to stop worrying about them ever soiling the WH again at that point. But it ain’t here yet.
Once I started looking at Obama as The puppet king it all fell into place.
You’re welcome.
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