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Hillary Clinton's campaign estimates donations have totaled $10 million since her Pennsylvania primary win last night. Campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe crowed, "Senator Clinton’s game-changing victory last night has turned the tide and resulted in an historic outpouring of grassroots support."
Clinton's 10-point Keystone state win over Barack Obama gave her opportunity to emphasize how she's won states that will be critical in the November election. She said, "I won the states that we have to win — Ohio, now Pennsylvania. It’s very hard to imagine a Democrat getting to the White House without winning those states.” And she's using that argument to woo the superdelegates. (Obama's campaign emphasizes how Clinton only made a net gain of 12 delegates, Obama's still leading, and, oh, yeah, donate $25 bucks!)
Still, Democrats are upset about the prolonged fight for the nomination. Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen told the Washington Post, "What happened yesterday was what a lot of us were afraid would happen." Ouch! And the NY Times ran an editorial today, calling Clinton's win "The Low Road to Victory." The editorial acknowledged that Obama's become negative as he is "increasingly rising to Mrs. Clinton's bait," but the big point is "It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election."
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NYTimes. Biased much? So obama is becoming negative because of Clinton? wow. remember when the NY times was actually respected?
Well Obama is a gift from god...and Clinton is...well a little less than a gift.
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It is a shift for Obama to be as negative as he has been. Then again, it's hard to defend against someone who's trying so hard to win after she's lost. She's not going to win the popular vote either, and it's a bit silly for her to include Michigan in her popular vote count (which she's winning), for reasons we all already know. It would be a slap in the face to democracy if the superdelegates went against the popular vote and delegate totals and would fuck the party for sure when black people don't vote in November.
Dear lord Gothamist,
You of all people should not be pulling the same shit as other media outlets. Maybe it's the NY new math but where I learned rounding 9.2 did not round to 10. She didn't win by double digits no matter what you're told.
If Obama and Hilary were for the goood of this country one of them should step down.
Politics is a bunch of bullshit. Then they wonder why people don't vote.
I've never seen two people fight so hard to come in second.
I swear, After her "Osama" Adv, I'd find it hard to vote for her even if she does manage to win...
Also, as other people pointed out, She didn't win by a double digit margin.
No f'n way Obama can win the general election. By November his America's affair with the black man will end and go crawling back to the old white husband. It's unfortunate but I'd be willing to bet middle America will lose the fervor for Obama moments after the nomination.
Hillary-iously Ridiculous!
If the back-room tries to give her the nomination, stand back for a riot in Denver ala Chicago 1968!
Neither of them are in it for:
#1] the good of the Country
and #2] the good of the Party. (It's just Big Ears vs. Big Ass!)
Hasn't America had enough of the 'Clintons'!!
Personally- I'm EXHAUSTED!!
Jesse Califano
@Babyhitler: This is the Times editorial page, which exists to have opinions. Also, they endorsed Clinton. That said, I seem to recall having some tiny scintilla of respect left for the Times until about 2002 when they let Judith Miller turn their front page into a Defense Department press release.
jessecal pretty much nailed it.
There is absolutely no scenario in which Hillary Clinton's continued presence in this race is going to be a good thing for the Democratic Party or for our nation.
She's bringing us one of two possibilities:
1) She continues to drag Obama through the muck, putting McCain in the strong position of being able to point out that fellow Democrats take a dim view of him. Meanwhile time and money that could be used campaigning against McCain is getting sucked up in the primary battle. Obama still wins the primary but is left in a weakened position for the general election.
2) She somehow works some chicanery that gets enough superdelegates on her side to win at the convention. As jessecal suggests, there is a riot at the convention, and the Democratic party is torn asunder. Voters in the majority feel that their vote was not counted, and these disenfranchised voters more or less give up. McCain is almost assured the general election.
It's time for the tired Clinton machine to bow out, as gracefully as possible given their current status.
I don't understand this call for her to give up, it's her choice and as long as she has the funds and a chance to win, however slim, she should continue. If the Democrats can't win this Nov., with the Iraq War, Bush, recession etc.,they are just basically a failed party.
Obama is just getting started, wait until Hillary is out of the picture and the tide and momentum will swing back in his direction. McCain does not have a leg to stand on, and event though there are endless raciscts, rednecks and white supremicists from PA on to ALABAMA, Obama will pick up enough of the voters who haven't shown up the last two elections to win.
The problem with Clinton is that she is showing herself to be one of the same, oldfashioned nasty-ass politicians of yesteryear and today. So if she runs against McCain, she will lose. You know why? Because the Republicans are the KINGS of the good, old fashioned nasty-ass politicians of yesteryear and today. Why choose a second-rate nasty ass?
If someone's going to run against McCain, at least let it be his opposite, for goodness sakes. We all know he's going to win anyway. Why? Because look how stupid America was electing Bush again! I doubt America will truly change, and even those who were tempted by Clinton or Obama will waver at the last moment and change their vote for a Republican again.
Obama makes this only slightly less likely, due to the actual difference he represents, and all the new people he's motivated to vote. Clinton doesn't have that vote. She only has the provisory (pre-general) vote of the treacherous poor whites, and the vote of the silly rich whites from upstate.
I'm still hoping that Obama has been laying low all this time, and has an ace or two up his sleeve which he'll bring out at the last moment, in a Hurricane Carter vs Rodriguez moment. Let her tire herself out, Obama. Then clean the floor with her, in a very nice, polite way.
Hillary Clinton's campaign estimates donations have totaled $10 million since her Pennsylvania primary win last night.
The Senator, named for noted explorer Edmund Hillary, manged to raise the money herself while dodging sniper fire and bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
Obama will guarantee a Republican victory. People blaber on about how he puts more states into play... we're talking about Democratic primaries people, he is not going to suddenly take the middle of the country in the general just because he wins a caucus. He can barely win outside of a caucus situation. The majority of people simply are not going to accept an increased welfare and taxation. Also, his honeymoon period is wearing off and when the real attacks begin, he really is going to have a problem on his hands.
Perhaps the Democratic party needs to rethink itself if this is how it is run after basically a failed Republican presidency. Perhaps, the smoke filled back room deals are the way to go since it gets rid of the problem of party extremest picking the candidates.
Go home hilary!
American voters aren't the party extremists.
And the Hillbot argument that she's more competitive in the big states is nuts - my cat could run as the Democratic nominee in NY and California and beat McCain.
The fact that Obama's brought a surge of new Democrats to the polls in states like Nebraska and Wyoming is the most compelling reason for his candidacy - even if he doesn't win the popular vote in these states, our dumb electoral college might actual work in the Democrats' favor for once.