Clinton suggests race will be over next week

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It looks like this agonizing process may be coming to an end:

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she expects her marathon Democratic race against Barack Obama to be resolved next week. In a conference call with Montana reporters, Clinton said Friday: "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start making up their minds. I think that is the natural progression that one would expect."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_el_pr/clinton

 

[kneelin]

Next week? You seem to be looking for meaning in her words that isn't there.
Clinton said Friday: "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start making up their minds. I think that is the natural progression that one would expect."

"Start making" . . . could mean weeks . . . or all the way to the convention. A "progression" takes time and assuming that means next week is overly optimistic . . . or just wishful thinking on your part.

 

[ShortBoy]

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/f1c00e7a-e594-4e4d-a9d8-959235177523.html

 

[Sammie13]

I still say that she should have suspended her campaign the day after the primaries in the Hoosier and Tarheel states. It became perfectly clear that she wasn't going to win after those primaries. She was at a point where she needed a strong showing in North Carolina, tenth largest state, to show that Obama , after a long victory drought, could not win. He won easily, and really left her without options. This was just one of a series of poor campaign decisons made by the Clinton folks.

The only positive is that she became a much stronger candidate in the latter months of the campaign, which could help her in future elections. She solidified her image as a tough fighter, and managed to win over many of the folks who had more easily gravitated toward her hubby. Then again, many Obama loving Democrats will never like her now, so perhaps she "un-did" some of her image re-construction. Time will tell

 

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It looks like this agonizing process may be coming to an end:



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_el_pr/clinton

Next week? You seem to be looking for meaning in her words that isn't there.
Clinton said Friday: "I think that after the final primaries, people are going to start making up their minds. I think that is the natural progression that one would expect."

"Start making" . . . could mean weeks . . . or all the way to the convention. A "progression" takes time and assuming that means next week is overly optimistic . . . or just wishful thinking on your part.

I posted an article from the AP and quoted from it. I took the title of this thread from the article. The only editorializing that I did was to describe the process as "agonizing."

I do think it will be over in a week.

Today is Friday, May 30

The Rules Committee of the DNC meets tomorrow May 31. It is likely that it will resolve the matter of seating MI and FL delegates, giving Hillary the greater share of the delegates from those two states but not enough to overcome Obama's lead.

Former Democratic national chairman Don Fowler, who is an expert on party rules, offered a puckish, but highly probable, forecast about Saturday's meeting: "We're going to settle it peacefully, I think. There'll be some strident remarks, maybe some by me, and we'll seat about half the delegates. Not as much as Hillary wants, but some. Then after six or eight hours, we'll kiss and make up and go home."

The last three primaries are held on Tuesday, June 3. Together there are 85 or so delegates to be divided. I haven't done the math but I assume they will be divided pretty evenly. Certainly, Hillary will not gain enough delegates to surpass Obama's lead.

Presently, Obama leads Clinton in pledged delegates by 200. Obama leads in Supers by 45, with 166 still undeclared and 35 not yet appointed.

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/superdelegates/index.html

Obama is about 40-45 delegates short of the 2025 to win. Hillary is about 200. The total number is going to change after the delegates from FL and MI are seated, but Hillary is not going to close the gap by much.

At some point next week, many, if not most, of the the remaining 166 superdelegates are going to declare. I anticipate that the bulk will declare of them will do so for Obama, putting him over the top and effectively ending the nomination process.

The situation will become clearer tomorrow if an agreement is reached on FL and MI. If no agreement is reached, perhaps it will go to the convention. But right now I doubt it.

If you have a different scenario in mind, by all means lay it out. I'd be interested to read it.

 

[MystikWizard]

Over next week? The goalposts always get moved. This is likely going to August.

 

[snapcat]

Well, I dunno ...... Ricky Martin just endorsed Hillary, so who knows. LOL!

 

[construct]

Over next week? I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Lostlover]

Over next week? The goalposts always get moved. This is likely going to August.

LMAO.

First, it's a mistake to take Hillary at her word. She says next week. But next week she will say "next week".

I said it all along, she gave up in Texas. Was defeated and beaten like a red headed stepchild after North Carolina/Indiana.

She has an ego that won't let quit however even though her heart is not in it.

I hope Hillary loses her seat in NY. That would be so funny. For playing the racial card against blacks, I hope riot on her office and run her out the state.

And I hope Obama doesn't give her any money to erase her immense debts running in a campaign she CAN'T win and mathematically couldn't win for at least the last three months.

 

[MystikWizard]

And I hope Obama doesn't give her any money to erase her immense debts running in a campaign she CAN'T win and mathematically couldn't win for at least the last three months.

If he doesn't give in to her blackmail, she'll order her die-hard, fanatic, Feminist supporters to stay home or vote for McCain in the General Election.

 

[snapcat]

Gentlemen, prepare for the goal posts to move once again .....

I'm just saying .....

 

[Kulindahr]

When there's a victory party do we get to tear down the goal posts?

 

[cumboy1]

This thing is going to the Convention. If Obama gets the nomination, McCain will win in November. I do not trust Obama or the people he surrounds himself with. I will vote republican in November and will switch to an Independant. The GOP wants Obama elected because they will beat him in the working class states, all the states Hillary have won, will turn red in November. The DNC better think long and hard, because if Hillary is not on the ticket or the nominee...her supporters will vote republican in the fall.

 

[snapcat]

^ So, you're not really a democrat?

 

[cumboy1]

^ So, you're not really a democrat?

Lifelong, never voted Republican. If he gets the nomination...McCain will be my choice in November. And then I will officially register as an Independant.

Howard Dean and his cronies like Kerry and Edwards can cry in January as they swear in another 4 more years of Bush

 

[opinterph]

Howard Dean and his cronies like Kerry and Edwards can cry in January as they swear in another 4 more years of Bush

I don’t think the DNC Chairman (or “his cronies”) will be operatively involved in the swearing in of the next POTUS.

At exactly noon, the President takes the oath of office, traditionally administered by the Chief Justice of the United States … [Link]

 

[ShortBoy]

if Hillary is not on the ticket or the nominee...her supporters will vote republican in the fall.

The plan is for Hillary's supporters to vote for McCain to ensure Hillary is handed the presidency in 2012.

 

[greydog]

The DNC better think long and hard, because if Hillary is not on the ticket or the nominee...her supporters will vote republican in the fall.

Well, your threat is immature, self serving and childish.

 

[khushibagh]

Lifelong, never voted Republican. If he gets the nomination...McCain will be my choice in November. And then I will officially register as an Independant.

Enjoy. And why should we care?

 

[Lostlover]

If he doesn't give in to her blackmail, she'll order her die-hard, fanatic, Feminist supporters to stay home or vote for McCain in the General Election.

She's already given an idiot out there somewhere fuel to hate Obama... he mistreats women. Then she mentioned the "A" word (not asshole) when talking about Obama/Robert Kennedy. There just needs to be one idiot out there and Hillary's initiated it.

She'll release one of her Annie Oakley feminist supporters to get at Obama.

Remember she's the gun toting Democrat in Penn? Lol.