She brought it on herself with the stunt of delaying her own speech in a (failed) attempt to force Obama to delay his (given the originally scheduled timings, it would probably have caused Obama to lose more listeners, and was presumably intended to do so).
This week’s debate is going to be…er…interesting. I hope she loses her shit again.
According to one report she has mathematically lost, barring a miracle. She would have to receive at least 65% of the popular vote in ALL the remaining primaries in order to be the ‘shoe-in’ at the convention. Even in New York and Florida, and even if she had received all of the votes that went to Edwards in both of those states (which is not likely), she hasn’t had that kind of win. Unless she has something MAJORup her sleeves where B.H.O. is concerned she needs to negotiate for VP before he’s too pissed to consider her, but I don’t see it happening.
I could see her soldiering on in the hopes that Obama commits some kind of major gaffe, and she’d be there to pick up the pieces. But she has to be running out of money, if not now then soon, right?
A little off-topic, but what’s the deal with the $5 million of her own money she loaned the campaign- is that gone with the wind or does she get that back?
I will say that if Hillary does manage to get the nomination I’ll gladly vote for her for two reasons: the first being she’s not Republican, and the second being that anybody who can snatch victory from Obi Wan Kebama (the Teflon Golden Child) at this point shouldn’t have any problem charging through Republican congressmen or outflanking Afghan warlords.
She’s likely to have already repaid herself from the $7 million she managed to raise on the internet right after Super Tuesday. Of course, in the same amount of time (approximately 3 days) Obama raised $15 million. Go figure.
While it’s no shock that the Clintons are rich (although I was surprised they were “can afford to cough up $5 million” rich), I thought it was a stupid move to let that get press when she’s trying to promote herself as a candidate of the people. Obama’s rich too of course (mostly from book deals), but he’s far lower profile about it.
Then Obama lost too because he won’t mathematically lock it up either. The point is that it will come down to the supers.
I did the math this morning. Obama would have to win about 85% of the remaining delegates to win with pledged delegates alone. Clinton would have to win 102% of the remaining delegates!
So it will come down to superdelegates, but I don’t think it would be considered an issue if the superdelegates sided with the winner of the popular vote and the pledged delegates.
Hillary is right that the whole reason for pledged delegates is to slow an insurgent… but apparently the party didn’t consider the fact that it would look terrible for the party to nominate a candidate over the will of their voters.
Bill earns a nice buck giving speeches during the year…check this out.
He is certainly not the only person in the world to earn a lot giving speeches, but it would explain why Hillary coughing up $5 million is no big deal.
Someone else setting up a 527 is incredibly self-centered of Hillary?
Setting up a 527 to promote a candidate (rather than an issue) is illegal. When supporters of Edwards and Obama tried to do the same thing earlier in the primary season, both candidates publicly denounced the practice and told those supporters to stop. Will Hillary?
With a gutted FEC, nothing will be done to the organizers of this 527 for years, if at all. But Hillary could at least do the same as Edwards and Obama did.
She won’t it’s not in her nature. She’s got a screwdriver, and she’s trying to stick it into Obama’s shirt…although she keeps slipping and catching herself. 
There’s so many freakin’ Obama threads I don’t know where to post this question, but here seems as good a place as any: I heard a brief blip on the radio this morning that Obama won the “overseas” primary (Americans voting abroad). Yet I cannot find any info about the results from CNN or NPR or with Google searches. Anyone know what the results were and how many delegates he picked up (if any)?
Check the Obama/Clinton debate thread.
CNN shows that he picked up two delegates from it, but doesn’t show the results, at the bottom of the page here: Election Center 2008: Primary Results for Candidate - Elections & Politics news from CNN.com
Not that this helps at all, but NPR mentioned it this morning, so perhaps it’s somewhere on their site now.
And here you go…Obama Wins Democrats Abroad Primary
Thank you - I couldn’t find it when I went there.