Posted on 05/08/2008 9:27:58 AM PDT by The_Republican
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democratic officials and donors. Some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy.
With the political world trained on Mrs. Clinton’s financial and electoral viability, Senator Barack Obama moved closer to becoming the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party. Mr. Obama spent the day at home in Chicago, after increasing his delegate lead in Tuesday’s primaries — a result that led David Plouffe, a top Obama aide, to say on Wednesday, “We can see the finish line here.”
After a decisive loss in North Carolina and a disappointingly narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday night, Mrs. Clinton told advisers that she wanted to start campaigning for next Tuesday’s primary in West Virginia, advisers said. At 3 a.m. Wednesday, aides added a noon event there. She was also eager to get away from Beltway buzzards circling her candidacy and feeding off fresh tidbits like the revelation that she had lent her campaign $6 million to keep it afloat, aides said.
In West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Clinton said that it was “still early” — even though 50 of 56 nominating contests have concluded — and that the “dynamic electoral environment” could still swing the nomination her way.
“I’m staying in this race until there is a nominee, and obviously I’m going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee,” Mrs. Clinton said after an event in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
As adamant as Mrs. Clinton appeared on Wednesday, several advisers said that how long she would stay in the race was an open question.
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Stick a fork in Hillary.
If it’s Obama vs. McCain, you can count on this being the most corrupt election in US history.
The hard leftists will use all the tricks to get their messiah elected.
Arkancides were myths?
No, thanks, I'm busy.
YOU do it.
The NY Times will be calling McCain a klansman before all this is over.
McCain’s ancestors were white Mississippians—the MSM will be able to turn them all into stereotypical slave-beating plantation owners, Klansmen, and segregationists. That Obama’s white ancestors were slaveholders won’t count because of his Kenyan father.
Oh, and the big one - McCain did not support MLK day in AZ almost 20 years ago, so he is now an instant Klansman. I am telling you, its coming.
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