Now we know why Terry McAuliffe cancelled out on Ed Schultz at the last minute today.
LOL

Greg:

Can you confirm that the DNC has backed away from 2026 as the number needed to secure the nomination?

This number would only change if Florida and Michigan were seated at half-strength. Is that now the official position of the DNC--the nomination number is no longer 2026?

And it can't be overstated how important the money game is to insiders as a sign of a candidate's strength (fair or unfair).

Imagine if the campaigns were much closer to a delegate tie - this would be a much bigger story in their conversations with superdelegates.

Obviously, the person doing Hill's delegate math is also keeping the books.

"But we're not in the red. Terry, explain it to them."

These days the title of a fighter costs $11.4 million personal money + Dillion's Bicycle

So other than the day of the Penn. primary she only raised $12 million?

Now there is a fine example of how a fiscally
responsible leader should handle things.

When will you Obamaniacs grasp that this proves Hillary is ready on day one to balance the national budget.

As the latest debt report confirms, the May-June Clinton campaign is a smoke and mirrors operation largely oriented to the media, using money it does not have to press a case that stokes racial and gender tensions and unnecessarily distracts from party preparations for the general election.

I am suprised that people are not pointing out the obvious fact that this artificially never-ending exercise is using past and future business contributions (via speaking fees and non-collection by Penn's firm) to fund an operation that cannot be sustained on democratic grounds. That feminism is invoked to justify this is quite offensive to many of us who believe that women should fully compete as HRC has done -- yet with the understanding that women can lose as well as win the competition.

HRC is not accepting her obvious loss, and is not doing what she can to build toward a Democratic victory in 2008 that is far more important than her/Bill's personal aspirations. If Obama does lose in the fall in part because of the past weeks of Clinton undermining, HRC should realize that many people will know this and will not support her in 2012. At that point, if it comes, it will be even more important than it has been this year to move on to new people for the future.

Confusion: I followed the link, and found that Hillary's official filing shows only two loans to her campaign of 5 million each. What happened to the other 1.4 or 1.6 million she loaned her campaign?

Also, she is allowing debts to vendors to stay oh her books for months, though I understood a campaign spokesperson to say the old ones had been paid. For example, she still owes Jewel in Iowa for catering costs. Something needs to be publicized about her debts, which are affecting a lot of folks across the land; perhaps that publicity would shame her into taking adult responsibility for her obligations.

So?

She only has those ubber-expensive Montana and South Dakota primaries left. For what does she need money?

This Clinton campaign will go down in textbooks as among the worst-managed ever. Nearly every woman I know is better with her own finances than I am. But Barbie's "Math is hard!" is the default label that sexists will stick on Hillary. Whether you're the first black or the first woman, you are cut no slack, but Hillary is actively making her money morass worse as we type.

I'll be happy to explain it. You see, this money is only theoretical -- like Monopoly money. So, we're really not in debt, theoretically. And, come to think of it, this whole pledged delegate business is theoretical.

If you add in the Popular Vote of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Philippines -- and ignore those states that don't really matter in the the electoral map scheme of things, Hillary is leading.

Simple, eh?

Miss. Democratic chairman commits to Obama as superdelegate
The Associated Press

http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/577124.html

JACKSON, Miss. --
Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Wayne Dowdy says he is committed to Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential race.

Dowdy is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, and he had been holding off on deciding between Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dowdy tells The Associated Press that he made his decision Wednesday after becoming convinced that Obama has enough support to secure the nomination. Dowdy says he hopes Clinton is chosen for vice president

How could a candidate run the GE without money or in debt for that matter?

Has it ever happened in American history?

In any case, Obama has won pure and simple.

Yeah, they all said it was over after Iowa because the masses swallowed his kool aid.

It is not over until all Americans have voted and the supers give it to Obama.

When will this candidate step up and lead on anything?

Speeches are not solutions.

Speeches are the kool aid.

Don't blame Clinton when he loses because he is not a leader or a fighter.

You should stop hating the Clintons, get up off your fat asses and help get the voters the proper ID to vote.

Money is a big signifier to superdelegates of the actual underlying support.

I also read somewhere (Time.com I think) that "Hillary '08" merchandise is now 50% in the D.C. airport. That would be another negative signifier. Not to sound too much like a GOPer, but the open market rarely lies.

I don't see why Obama should do anything to help her retire her debt. She continued long past the time when all she had left was a chance that depended on her getting what, 70% in each of the remaining primaries? Anyone else would have quit at that point. There's no reason for any money that could go to the GE be used to fund something that hurt the Dem nominee.

Hillary needs to drop out because she is hurting Obama's donations. I and many of the frequent Obama donors who reward him when he makes a great speech or when Hillary does something super negative, have been holding out giving to Obama after North Carolina and Indiana... the line in the sand which the Clinton team drew... and then redrew when it failed to be to her advantage, because she lost the whole thing and we don't want our donations to go to paying her campaign debt. That money should go to fighting McCain and Hillary is just emotionally vampiring the whole Democratic Party like a psycho ex who just won't admit it is over.

It's quite stunning to watch the Dem power brokers sit on their hands as Hillary proceeds to de-legitimize Obama's eventual nomination. And she's not doing so quietly: today she compared her Florida effort to seat the delegation to the fight against slavery. And she's claiming that Obama's stance is equivalent to Bush 2000. She is truly demented and dangerous. The only thing more remarkable is that Pelosi, Gore, etc are letting her and Bill get away with this.

rstephen --- Obama has over taken HRC in Hispanic support -- some wonder after her U.S.A. today comments.

The debt figure has convenietly removed the debt to Penn and Mollie Grunwald and other consultants -- so I seriously doubt its accuracy.

Obama did not do anything different than HRC, Edwards and all the other Candidates at the will of the DNC. Terry Mac, Harold Ickes and the Clintons wrote the damn rules on delegates and the MI/FL penalty...