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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (13898)	3/17/2008 3:55:42 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Hillary (HRC) is in a tough spot. She trails Obama in nearly every metric-- pledged delegates, states won, popular vote, fundraising totals. She still has a slim lead in superdelegates, but that's because she had a whole bunch of them in her pocket before Obama even got into the race. So, given her predicament, there is no way for her to close the gap by making nice and talking about her wonderful health care plan. HRC and her advisors have no choice but to get down and dirty, but Obama has already proved he can take whatever they throw at him. I expect her campaign to get so ugly in the coming weeks that the party elders will come to the realization that it's time to put the cows in the barn and wrap this thing up. What a sad end for HRC; she began this contest with every conceivable advantage: $100 million in the bank, a famous husband who is the most popular and influential Democrat in the Party, a bunch of superdelegates and Party officials on board with her, and major name recognition after two terms as First Lady. But she went out and hired a bunch of DLC stiffs to run her campaign, and look at the results -- Obama's populist campaign has outclassed her at every turn. The only thing that has kept her in the race is that the media keeps moving the goalposts for Hillary; I can't recall how many 'firewall' states she has lost, yet we keep hearing that the next primary is the critical one for her. If she was a loyal Democrat she would do the right thing for the Party and the nation and exit graciously right now. I'm one of her NY state constituents, and I'm concerned that before this is over she will have diminished her ability to serve effectively as our Senator. by global yokel on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 01:42:06 AM EST mydd.com