Posted on 06/01/2008 2:30:36 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Senior advisers to Senator Hillary Clinton have prepared the ground for her to abandon her presidential ambitions within days rather than disputing the Democratic nomination all the way to the party convention in August.
Senator Barack Obama is expected to be able to declare himself the party's candidate against Senator John McCain as early as tomorrow, when South Dakota and Montana become the final states to hold their primaries. Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said the nomination would be decided this week: "We don't want to go to the convention, have a big fight at the convention, and lose the presidency."
A dispute over whether and how to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida was resolved on Saturday by giving each delegate only half a vote as a penalty for those states defying the party by holding early primaries.
The Clinton camp was unhappy with the decision, which raised the number of delegates needed for victory from 2,025 to 2,118, but showed little appetite to challenge.
Just after the polls close, Mr Obama, who could be accompanied by senior Democratic Party figures, is to hold a huge rally in St Paul, Minnesota, at the venue where Mr McCain is due to accept the Republican nomination in September.
His aides were working furiously yesterday to amass the two dozen or so "super-delegates" – party officials whose convention votes are not tied to the primaries – he would need to ensure that the South Dakota and Montana results give him a majority.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I give the outside observer more credibility than I do the crAP or the NYT news wire.
Yep, the Senate could be LOST.
I'm not saying she wouldn't be confirmed, just that her ego won't tolerate what she'd get from the likes of Sessions.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on this...Hitlery is not one to concede.”
No bet from this end.
I will bet that those who are making such “preparations” are out of their jobs by the end of this week.
But, then, since Hillary is in such deep debt with her campaign, perhaps they think they aren’t going to get paid, anyway.
Should I take popcorn off my shopping list?”
Nah- Denver is still coming up.
>>I wouldn’t bet the farm on this...Hitlery is not one to concede.
I wouldn’t want to be within ashtray range when she is informed she has lost the nomination, either.
“Well, hello, Mrs. Cleaver. Can the Beaver come out and play?”
The British press doesn’t seem to be, uh, quite “up to the minute”. THis looks like third-rate second-hand news that wAs only reputedly true maybe a week ago.
The Rats run their party the same way Stalin ran the Soviet Union. The sheeple have no say, that is left up to the elites.(superdelagates)
Love the graphic, you are very cleaver.
;)
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