I thought that Emily stood for Early Money Is Like Yeast.

Isn't it a bit late for them to try and add the yeast after Hillary has already run a Half Baked Campaign.....Rim Shot Please!

Of course, this naked display of identity politics is presumably counter-balanced by the millions of dollars the NAACP is pouring into its Obama effort, no?

I echo Ruth in OR's comment. Clinton has been in politics (as she keeps telling us...), and has mismanaged the campaign she has run, so why is Emily's List helping to bail her out?

In any event, could someone ask the Clinton campaign why, after all that negative advertising about Obama not debating, she hasn't agreed to the debate in North Carolina?

Could it be, possibly, that the Clinton campaign does, in fact, realize that for all intents and purposes, it is, in fact, over???

And another thing-- they better not try to pull anothe one of those phony attack mailers like in NH accusing Obama of not being pro-choice due to "present" votes or NAFTA lies or whatever.

It truly boggles me that any thinking person or progressive organization would continue to support Hillary Clinton at this point. (I can understand "average" voters who maybe aren't following every detail and are going on their former respect for her, I guess....)

On a purely tactical/practical level--she's lost, and could only possibly claw out a win thru destructive and/or nefarious means. Certainly I find it hard to imagine preferring her over Obama on personal or even policy grounds. I just don't get it. Are they just afraid to defy the Clinton machine?

No dollar amount has bee put the Emily's List drive yet, but it will consist of mailers and phone calls.

Maybe they'll recycle those misleading 'Obma won't stand up for women's rights' mailers they used in NH? They care so much about women and their rights & issues, they'll lie to them to get their votes.

I'm assuming this means Emily's list is going to let loose with the false mailers attacking Obama's position on abortion just like they did back in Iowa, New Hampshire and other early races.

kick off with a little gender slur, eh.

Barack is back up over 80% in the Intrade markets.

The word for the day is "The Tanya Harding Option".

Hillary should follow Huckabees's example. After all, he was from Arkansas too.

What a waste of Democratic energy. It's past time to get behind the viable candidate. Mrs. Clinton has clearly demonstrated that she is not in control of her staff, not in control of her campaign, not honest about her qualifications, not honorable in the way she is campaigning and not able to get the requisite money or votes.

It's time to MoveOn, Clintonians.

I have been considering applying for work with Emily's List in the near future, or at least I was until I read this. What are the ethical/practical pros/cons at this point? I support their cause generally speaking but this incident shows extremely poor organizational judgment. I'm not sure if I'd want to work for or be associated with a group that would use its campaign resources like this. Then again, by the time I would be working for them, the Clinton Campaign will be moot or completely done. Any thoughts?

As a long time, sustaining member of Emily's List, I am extremely disappointed in the organization's willingness to follow Senator Clinton over the cliff. Talk about your "cult campaign'! The cult is Clinton's, not Obama's, with feminist activists closing their eyes to the reality of Clinton's loss, and continuing to support her destructive actions. What point is there to allowing her to destroy Democratic chances in the fall. Isn't the goal of EL to elect PRO-CHOICE women? If we can't get the woman, how about at least stepping back and letting the PRO-CHOICE man win?

I've just contacted Emily's List and told them I do not want one more dime of my money going toward Clinton's candidacy. I am disgusted with her behavior.

gak

Emily's List has become part of the Washington establishment. Their original mission has long been sidelined as they seek to be a permanent and powerful inside player. Hillary in the White House means they get more, Obama or McCain as president means they don't. I stopped giving to them long ago.

I have also noticed, and I am saying this as a sixty-year-old woman, too many Clinton supporters want a woman to win--period. Is she the best candidate? Is she the best potential leader? That seems is unimportant to them. They want a woman. But in the last several weeks I have realized Hillary has proved to be far from the kind of person, woman or not, I want running this country. Blind devotion to an idea leaves sound judgement by the wayside.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has already spent over $150 Million on a Campaign in which she was the overwhelming favorite to win from the very start, and yet she squandered all that money, and a huge lead, and managed to just limp in third in Iowa.

How does that type of Candidate qualify for Early Money is Like Yeast, at this juncture. It is becoming totally absurd.

It is comparable to the Republicans' way of always rushing to rescue distressed billionaires. Hillary has had plenty of money, but very little campaign leadership skills. All the money in the world can not nominate a fatally flawed candidate. Ask Steve Forbes, and Mitt Romney!

The Wright stuff they've put up today doesn't exactly cast Clinton in a good light. I've been confused as hell by all of you who think TPM is anything other than pretty objective in its reporting. Clinton said some stupid things today, they reported it. She also tried to climb her way out of a lie. They reported it. Straightforward enough.

Emily's about to get DE-LISTED. They must be terrified to see their power slipping away.

Time Emily called for Tuzula Tess

. "I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia and ... there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the first lady. That's where we went. I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Ha, ya'll think it is over?

Not even close.

Let the millions vote and the millions in Florida and Michigan count before you spew it is over.

Do not disenfranchise the millions of Americans that voted.

That is unAmerican.

I wrote Emily's List as well to express my unhappiness with their MISUSE of my funds, and requested that they remove my name from their emails and fund-raising drives. Hillary Clinton is hardly a woman who has is entering politics, or one who has EVER lacked ANY opportunity. To think that I've actually talked them up and passed out their literature.

I'm not a BIG contributor, but I have been a steady one. I'm hoping that I'm not the only one who has voiced her displeasure with the organization, and resigned from it.

Dream on. 62% won't do it, despite my deep admiration for the inestimable GOTV talents of Mr. Clemens (who is one of the few mensches working for the Senator). Clinton needs 65% to 35% PA split to take out a 50 lead in delegates, instead of a paltry 20. NC also is looking really, really bad for her. It is time for all of Senator Clinton's followers to leave Hillaryland for the Realityland most of us call home.

"Not even close."

Correct, it is not even close. :-) Rather it is certainly over. And Obama has it in the bag. Hillary can not win and thus has lost. She and her supporters simply are unable to admit they are done. They are simply whistling past the graveyard. People are fed up with the fear, innuendo and hate-mongering from the Clinton campaign.

Does this work ever?

Anyone who thinks this isn't over after NC and IN is a downright fool.

We'll concede PA to Hillary, if that will make her happy, but her chances in NC and IN are nil.

I'd like to see her try to move the goal posts after that. Then again, she probably will, so perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut and remember that "This, too, shall pass."

Rasmussen Poll says today 71% of Democrats would vote for Hillary in the general election and only 64% of them would vote for Obama. That is very bad news for Obama.

"...Pennsylvania, the state where Hillary Clinton needs a huge win to restore her credibility."

No amount of vote in Pennsylvania or anywhere else will restore Clinton's credibility.

"I remember landing under sniper fire."

"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

"I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning."

"I helped to start S-CHIP."

"As First Lady, I helped to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act"

and as for the Bosnia = Wright logic, what non-sense. Clinton puffs up her bio with a silly exaggeration, typical for an aging feminist of her generation. Obama has a long and intimate relationship with someone who in style and content really resembles a Nazi. And as a careful student of modern European history, I can assure you I am not making a casual association here. Accusing the government (with no basis at all) of murdering "his" people, not so different from the accusation that Germany was stabbed in the back by the SDs and Jews. The paranoid and angry bitter style of Wright's also resembles 1928 NASDP rhetoric. I could go on, but you dumbfucks won't understand the historical references. But man o man, Obama has appallingly bad judgment to pick such a fucking fruitcake to be his "old uncle." In my dream world, he'd appoint Wright as Fed chairman or something. (by the way, you'll note the departments where you never find womyn or black people include: economics, physics, math.) That would be hilarious. dollar/ euro 250,000, inflation 100,000%, unemployment 70% (i.e. like zimbabwe)

oh and JMC is a dumb cunt who knows nothing about economics and finance, and I suspect little of history despite his tony education. (ugh, I have met nothing but duds from princeton in particular, and they all have a sneering attitude towards unedumacated hicks like myself). I really urge him to stick to political gossip and shit rather than serious issues like the financial system, trade, law, government policy. Just tell us what someone in the Clinton campaign called Obama's mother etc etc. You're pretty good at that.

tpm entry is dated march 25th

when did emily's list announce pennsylvania voter registration effort

there was a March 24th midnight deadline for voter registration in pennsylvania