She chose to stay in this long. She chose to drive her campaign into debt. She is a multi-millionaire. I don't think that Obama supporters should foot the bill for her poor decisions.

However, if Obama were to raise money from his base specifically for the purpose of retiring her debt, and the people who wanted to donate to that cause knew that they were giving money for that purpose, then I think that would be fine. So long as only that money goes to Clinton.

Posted at May 8, 2008 4:38 PM in response to Obama, Don't Turn My Financial Contribution To Your Campaign Into A Reward For Hillary's Ugly Campaign

Putting a woman other than Hillary on the ticket would be an interesting move. Janet Napolitano, maybe? A popular governor from a Southwest state who has already endorsed Obama.

Posted at May 7, 2008 4:14 PM in response to So how does Obama graciously NOT name HRC VP?

"Progress", eh?

When Hillary Clinton questioned Gen. David Petraeus last September, she famously said that to believe his description of progress in Iraq required "a willing suspension of disbelief." After the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, the same may now be true about her case for winning the Democratic nomination. ... Clinton won Indiana, but, as she pointed out repeatedly to Petraeus, individual victories—even a surge of them in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania—don't change the whole story. The larger reality still holds. Barack Obama has the lead in elected delegates and the popular vote. Those leads increased Tuesday as he picked up five more delegates and roughly 200,000 more votes. For Clinton to move ahead in those numbers now, she must bring more states into the union.

http://www.slate.com/id/2190780/

Posted at May 7, 2008 11:46 AM in response to Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters

My favorite scene in the ad is Hillary standing next to that gas guzzling full size truck at the pump. It's important that we have a gas tax holiday so that people continue to buy more huge gas guzzling 4WD vehicles that never leave the pavement or haul anything heavier than a load of groceries.

Posted at May 5, 2008 2:47 PM in response to Yet Another Hillary Ad Hits Obama Over Gas Tax

A caveat: most Democrats have already voted and Obama has an insurmountable lead in elected delegates. I'm sorry folks, but Clinton is not the nominee. I would say it is admirable that Clinton continues to fight on, except I think it is closer to being nakedly self-serving, delusional, and destructive to the Democratic Party.

If a national poll conducted after most everyone has voted still has the ability to change the nominee, then there is clearly no democracy in the Democratic Party.

Posted at May 5, 2008 11:22 AM in response to USA Today/Gallup Poll Gives Hillary National Lead

Obama will need a big win in North Carolina...

Pure bullshit. He can lose NC and every remaining state by 25 points and Clinton still can't catch him in the elected delegate count.

Posted at May 1, 2008 6:53 PM in response to Poll: Obama Ahead By Seven Points In North Carolina

Alternate Headline: Nomination Remains Out of Reach for Clinton

A new poll out today shows that Hillary Clinton falls well short of the 68% support she will need in every remaining primary state just to pull even with Barack Obama in elected delegates. In Indiana she polls at just 50%, a full 18 points short of the support she would need to blunt Obama's insurmountable lead. In North Carolina, she continues to trail Obama with no hope of catching up.

Posted at April 30, 2008 10:52 AM in response to Poll: Hillary Ahead By Eight In Indiana

As such, he needs to seriously narrow the gap in time for the May 13 primary...

Bullshit. Hillary would need to win all remaining states (including North Carolina, Indiana, and Oregon) by 68% to pull even with Obama. Congratulations to her for being poised to possibly do that in one state. Nobody, including Hillary Clinton, believes that's going to happen.

There is no credible argument that Obama needs to "seriously narrow the gap" in West Virginia.

Posted at April 25, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Obama Up On The Air In West Virginia -- And Everywhere Else, Too

A Political Wire reader runs the math and notes that before the Pennsylvania, Sen. Hillary Clinton needed to get at least 63% of the vote in the remaining states to have a chance to win more delegates than Sen. Barack Obama.

Clinton now needs 296 of the remaining 435 delegates up for grabs (or approximately 68% of the vote.) In contrast, Obama needs 140 of the remaining 435 to have the majority (or about 32% of the vote.)

Therefore, despite her win in the Keystone State, the results have in fact made it less likely Clinton can win.

Considering that most polls predict Obama should win North Carolina by a healthy margin and both campaigns think Indiana will be close, the chances of a Clinton victory are actually lower than ever.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/04/pennsylvania-win-makes-clinton.html

Posted at April 24, 2008 2:24 PM in response to Gallup: Obama's Lead Shrinks Post-Pennsylvania -- But He's Still Ahead

Thanks for the post. It's important to support causes I believe in. I will donate to Obama immediately.

Posted at April 23, 2008 1:48 AM in response to Hillary Raises $2.5 Million Since Victory Was Declared Tonight