Oh, and just to point out one more reason DrDeth’s site is ridiculous, it also assumes that just because Hillary won those states’ primaries, that Barack won’t win them in the General election, which is retarded.
Somebody needs to start talking to the media about Mark Penn’s multiple conflicts of interest, really.
He’s the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a PR and lobbying firm, which incidentally also employed (until last week) Charlie Black, McCain’s senior campaign advisor. Black JUST resigned from B-M (heh…didn’t notice that before!) last week, after having worked with the McCain campaign throughout the primaries.
Penn is also personally handling the Columbian Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the Columbian government as his client. His OTHER client, Hillary Clinton, is opposed to that agreement.
I guess the avoidance of conflicts of interest is for lesser people…
DrDeth just to jump on board, yup, if she wins most of the states left (7 out of 9) and by margins of 20% to 40% each time, keeps him down to fairly narrow victories of 10% or less in only two of the nine races that remain (NC and OR) THEN she might squeak by an extremely narrow popular vote victory (less than a third of a percent) while STILL being behind in pledged delegates by about 90. It then assumes a super delegate surge to her side that more than offsets that pledged delegate deficit.
Impossible? No. Not quite. But damn near close. And it illustrates the fact that she needs to win PA by significantly more than 15% to keep even that remote chance of running the table by those amazing margins alive.
Maybe Huckabee is tutoring her in miracle studies.
I’d just like to highlight this video again, and then ask people to compare (and contrast) it against the letter he wrote to Howard Dean, imploring him not to impose sanctions. It reads in part:
They’re really got some nerve. More maddening still, not only are they contemptible enough not to accept personal responsibility for their actions, they’re explicitly blaming Barack Obama for “disenfranchising” their voters, when he had not a damn thing to do with it! It’s not up to him to fix their mess!
Some Clinton backers are sending signals about switching sides:
*"(Governor) Corzine, D-N.J., sends word that he’s “reserving the right” to switch to Obama if he holds on to the lead in delegates and the popular vote. “It would be a very hard argument to make if you didn’t have the delegates. I think you need at least the popular vote,” Corzine said Thursday on CNBC.
Another Clinton superdelegate, Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Md., has his finger in the wind: “I heard Nancy Pelosi say the superdelegates should not reverse the popular vote, and I think that’s a very important consideration that will weigh heavily on all the superdelegates,” O’Malley tells the Baltimore Sun." *
This is almost as tricky as Bill Richardson deciding who to support. Switch too soon, and risk the Clintons dredging up a radical Muslim babysitter from Obama’s childhood, or wait too long and be stuck backing the wrong horse?
I really hate the sports analogies (Hillary is like the NY Giants or Rocky on the steps, or whatever). I’ve got a sports analogy. Two players are on the same team both pretty good, but one better. The worse player keeps putting up shots, not passing to the open man and being very selfish, hoping to impress get the big bucks and endorsement, but doesn’t give a crap about the team. Get it, team, not individuals.
This is why anything concerning Florida has it’s own tag on Fark.com. It’s really a different scale.
Who the hell did those assholes think they are anyway? After screwing up the 2000 election they pull this? I have no sympathy until Floridians can elect competent leaders.
Wow, looks like the 3AM calls are economic now. Seems like if she had her shit together, she’d be able to take care of that kind of stuff during the day. Oh, and the phone rings EIGHT times in this one:
I saw that one when it came out and I immediately thought that Clinton was told - ahem - *asked * nicely to chill on her dem oppoonant so when the nomination happens at least we still have a fighting chance.
I will say this for him, he did spend several years in a Hanoi pit of hell and never once gave the VC any information. He’s definitely tough even for a 71 year old.
But still, don’t want him as prez - [sup]don’t think he’s going to get the chance anyway[/sup]