[Team Hillary] "Nothing's Over Until We Decide It Is!"

A Chequer-Board of Nights & Days ^ | May 10, 2008 | Pejman Yousefzadeh

[2ndDivisionVet]

Refusing to go gently into that good night, Clinton supporter Jerome Armstrong stubbornly sticks to the message that Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic Presidential nomination. He points to West Virginia as a state that serves as a good indicator of what Armstrong believes to be Barack Obama's general election problems. Sensitive to charges that fretting about Obama's general election appeal in West Virginia could be tantamount to giving credence to the views of racists, Armstrong spends a goodly amount of time denouncing anyone who would dismiss as racists anti-Obama voters in West Virginia.

This isn't particularly interesting save for two observations:

The Clinton folks actually believe that their candidate might yet pull off some sort of miracle and capture the nomination.

Despite all of the talk that Obama's nomination is now inevitable and that with said inevitability will come newfound party unity, seething anger and resentment continues to define the mood of Clinton supporters. This is, perhaps, somewhat understandable; at the beginning of the nomination contest, I don't imagine that people like Armstrong really ever thought that Obama would be able to wrest the nomination away from Clinton when they consulted the stars. Nevertheless, one would have thought that the various pro-Clinton factions in the netroots would have begun to reconcile themselves to an Obama nomination and then line up to support him against John McCain and the Republicans.

Well, perhaps eventually, they will. But for now, there remains seething anger and resentment and since it is almost the middle of May already, one could easily see the resentment continuing through the summer--especially if Hillary Clinton decides to push through the rest of the primary schedule and goes to the Democratic National Convention without having fallen on her sword. Ted Kennedy kept on fighting up to and during the convention in New York in 1980 even though he had significantly less support then than Clinton does and will have during this electoral contest. I am sure that this information will not be lost on the Clintons, I would not be surprised if they continued to play every trick in the book--and some that may not be in the book--to try to win the nomination at the last moment during a knife fight in Denver and while I have not recently checked the stock prices for popcorn companies, I don't imagine that they have gone down all that much.

[endthematrix]

"See if you can guess what I am now."

[ripley]

“much will be said about the size of hillary’s win in west virginia but it is irrelevant.”

some reports have said that hillary does well with “working people” (in west virginia and kentucky) and obama with the “educated” (in oregon and wyoming).

will so-called working people go with mccain or will they stay with the democrat if obama gets the nomination?

(one guesses that the self-proclaimed intellectual geniuses will stay with obama under any circumstances.)

[Wildbill22]

Exactly.
Hildabeast better hope Bambam doesnt’ have any true accidents because nobody would believe it was an accident given her history with dealing with her enemies.

[ctdonath2]

WHY?

Because by giving Hillary a reason to stay in the race (the faint hope of actually getting the nomination, not just sheer willpower), Obama must take Hillary seriously and both must shred each other for a long time. McCain is helped hugely because he doesn't actually have to take either of them on so long as the other is doing his dirty work. The Democratic party hemmhorages resources and is approaching tearing itself apart.

Hillary can't win. Obama is, indeed, ahead - and his supporters will make sure he gets the nomination by any means necessary. ...but so long as the race continues, both are well on their way to burning out. Simply declaring "I'm staying in this race" isn't enough, the statistical non-zero chance of her winning must be maintained and the outcome kept uncertain due to rule changes.

If not for Operation Chaos, Hillary would be the Democratic version of Ron Paul: still running, but nobody cares. Thanks to Rush, chaos reigns on the left.