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Why Hillary will win, if the Superdelegates do their jobs
The reason primary season is designed to last so long, if necessary, is because this isn't election day in November. This is a process that shows the change in perception as we expose our candidates, learn more about them over time, look at sensitivities amongst different demographics (and no, not all white people are racist) and different ...
Posted to Politics by FairfaxBrian on May 7, 2008
Popular Vote Totals in Aggregate Mean Nothing...
... and Hillary Clinton is still due to become the Democratic Party nominee for the Presidential run this Fall. If Democratic Party stalwarts fail to understand that Hillary and Bill Clinton are their best package to run against McCain in this 2008 election season, then welcome to another 8, 16, or 32 years of Republicans in the White House, ...
Posted to Deathwatch by MichaelBernard1 on May 7, 2008
Enough. Please. We get it.
Is it not possible that the political reporters and talking heads that you're referring to are showing a rare bit of restraint? After all, Democrats are still voting in several states. I'm absolutely stunned that so many have refrained from joining the deafening chorus of ''she can't win'' while people still have yet to vote. We don't call ...
Posted to Chatterbox by rosserford on May 2, 2008
Obama should quite? NOT!!!
I don't beleive that there is any reason that Obama should quite or even be asked to quit. He is the best choice for the Democratic party and the only chance we have of beating McCain in November. Just because HRC has an agenda of her own which has no concern for either the Democratic party or the American people which stops her from pulling out ...
Posted to Trailhead by arisso on April 25, 2008
The Count That Counts
Even before her Pennsylvania victory, HRClinton was ahead in the ''electoral votes'' represented by the state primaries she has carried. Talk of popular votes, of states won, even of superdelegates pledged, in the end come to nothing if not to the electoral vote tally. Sure, the superdelegates can decide the nominee, but why put up a nominee who ...
Posted to Chatterbox by SpaceCat on April 24, 2008
Drop Out? Or Forced Out?
The same scenario will play out if the DNC takes the nomination away from Obama. The Clinton forces are dragging this thing out for one purpose only: to undermine Obama, smear him as unelectable and strong-arm the super delegates to adopt the ever-changing Clinton metrics. The DNC is a ready accomplice. Dean claims he wants to give all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Squeek on April 24, 2008
Show Hillary the door
The way I read the NYT editorial, they are explicitly asking the superdelegates to step in do what they were intended to do: save the party from a spoiler. It's as near to an un-endorsement as you can come - and could be used by some of the Clinton supers to justify their own aboutface. I'm sure there are many SDs who previously endorsed HRC ...
Posted to Trailhead by Knute on April 23, 2008
The Math Reveals An Ugly Truth
These computations of Hillary's insurmountable odds are fun. And it is actually worse because the nature of the superdelegates is to avoid a November boycott by Obama's loyal base which has orchestrated the largest primary season turnout in American history. They ain't gonna do it. But fun aside, knowing as we have for so many weeks that this ...
Posted to Trailhead by john adkisson on April 10, 2008
Re: Are Hillary supporters soon to be called &amp;amp;amp;quot;cult followers
Not all Clinton supporters are cult followers. I'm a former Clinton supporter and I can see some of the reasons there are still so many behind her; especially the older women. Older women (for arguments sake say, over 60) fought so hard against discrimination that this would be the crowning achievement in a struggle against sexism. Younger women ...
Posted to Politics by BP in NJ on April 8, 2008
"Klingons" Deathwatch Analysis: A Cynical "Scandal Watch".
To make the Clinton DeatchWatch (more aptly the ''Klingon DeathWatch'') more accurate or insightful, there needs to be more pertinent analysis. If it was re-worked it might actually have an impact on the super-delegate race. The ''watch'' should, for example, point out that the predictive percentage is not based on isolated campaign events. ...
Posted to Deathwatch by john adkisson on April 7, 2008

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