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As Lake County finally shows its hand, Hillary Clinton’s lead slips away. Whether she narrowly hangs on or whether she loses by a few thousand votes hardly seems to matter. Today the conversations will no doubt start as to how to reach a “graceful” end, as Bill Kristol described it. The Republicans will not enjoy the luxury of watching a hard-fought Democratic race much longer.
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May 7th, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Sure it matters.
Four years ago we were told that Dick Gephardt “HAD” to win Iowa, because he represented a neighboring state.
Obama’s Chicago base dominates Indiana’s media market.
He’s had all kinds of television, radio and print coverage in Indiana, going back before he reached the U.S. Senate.
And the fact that Hillary STILL captures Indiana, despite Obama dumping a good chunk of cash in the state, is supposed to mean “nothing?”
It means a great deal.
It means that Obama’s reach extends to guilty white, upscale libs, Black Americans, and little else.
Hillary SMASHED him in Pennsylvania.
That’s a blue state, it’s unlikely that Dems will take Indiana, nor North Carolina.
The blue states that the election hinges on went for Hillary.
Obama took mostly Red states.
That should be dispositive for the superdelegates.
Whether it will or not remains to be seen. But embracing Obama, who was theologically and culturally espoused to Wright/Cone, seems to me to a brain dead move calculated to ensure failure for the Dems in November.
Obama might not carry Pennsylvania against McCain.
Which means game, set and match for McCain.
The Democrat superdelegates would have to be suicidal to nominate Obama, the most radical of the radical lefties in the Senate, and a guy whose candidacy will have the dark presence of “Reverend” Wright extending over his campaign.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:07 AM
Jennifer, you said something like what Dan is saying a few posts back. Are you changing your tune? Dan said that BO is unelectable in November because he can’t take the traditionally Democratic states [blue states], and also because he can’t take certain demographic sectors, like white women, less educated whites in the working class, the elderly, etc. Instead he takes Blacks and prosperous “white liberals.” Jennifer, can you respond to Dan’s arguments?
Now, since BO skilfully hid his real positions on many many issues, hiding behind platitudinous slogans like Hope & Change, the public doesn’t know where he stands. A bunch of ignorant, badly educated youth, albeit many with “college degrees,” are charmed by his platitudes. But what is the substance of his policies? How about his foreign policy which gotten much too little attention? It looks like Zbig Brzezinski is going to be his national security advisor or otherwise influential on an obama foreign policy. But can the world survive another four years of Zbig foreign policy?? The world is still suffering the consequences of Zbig’s four years with jimmy carter. Does it matter or not which of the 3 main candidates is elected from the foreign affairs standpoint?? If so, shouldn’t we be expressing our terror over another 4 years for Zbig??
May 7th, 2008 at 7:45 AM
About Lake County and similar late-reporting counties or precincts in elections:
Unless new votes are actually manufactured after the polls close, the effect of delaying the announcement of the tally is zero.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Obama lost. Not even a CNN tally can hide that, although it certainly tried.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Elliot, all I’m saying is that Obama is going to have to fight like the devil to take Pennsylvania, and he HAS to have Pennsylvania, otherwise they’ll be no “keystone” in the arch through which he desires to walk into The White House.
For the Dems, Pennsylvania is truly a KEYstone, without which, the electoral college numbers don’t add up.
Unless that is they’re intending not to win an outright 270, and have the whole race thrown into the House of Representatives, which they dominate, all thanks to the ideological incoherence and incompetence of the Bush White House, which is like a millstone around the neck of the party of Lincoln.