Well done, Clinton campaign. You've successfully poisoned the chances of the legitimate candidate of your party this time around. Kudos!

I'll be voting against you again in 2012.

Posted at May 1, 2008 4:46 PM in response to Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide

Wait... what's that sound...

It sounds vaguely like the goalposts getting dug out of the ground and being prepared to move again...

"If Hillary wins Pennsylvania at all, it's a huge win for her that really calls into question Obama's viability as a general election candidate."

Posted at April 2, 2008 11:05 AM in response to Poll Gives Obama The Lead In Pennsylvania

I didn't think it was possible to be amazed at how shallow MSM analysis is, but this morning's treatment of yesterday takes the cake.

To whit:

Yesterday, HRC got two narrow "victories" that basically show the Dems are split between her and Obama. Take a step back and think about it. Even among white women, which she consistently "wins", we're talking a 6 to 4 edge. 4 out of 10 white women favor Obama. And the same goes with his constituencies, outside of black voters. He "wins" with independents, for example, but a sizable portion of them go for HRC. At the end of the day, no matter who "wins" one of these state by state primaries, what we're really seeing is that the Dems and Dem-leaning primary voters are pretty torn between the two of them.

I don't decry the tough campaigning by the Clinton campaign, better to get that stuff out now and neuter its impacts in a GE, because it's not like the Clinton campaign is coming up with anything that Republican strategists wouldn't have come up with eventually anyway. And I don't want to take away from the Clinton campaign's "wins", yesterday they definitely disproved the previous MSM meme that Obama was the near-unanimous choice of Dems. Each of the two of them have their constituencies, and yesterday we saw that they can hold them.

However, thanks mostly to incompetent early campaign management by the Clinton campaign, Obama's in a stronger position to be the nominee. He has the elected delegate lead, and analyses I've seen suggest that he'll get the superdelegates from here on out. The only way for HRC to beat that advantage would be for there to be some kind of major momentum shift. That would require a major stumble by Obama, something that would make a dramatic turn. Because all last night showed was same-old, same-old.

So the story line should have been "Hillary lives to fight another day, but Obama still has an edge." I mean, she's hanging around in case something breaks in the Obama campaign, but she's in the same fix today that she was in on Monday.

Instead, you see ridiculous headlines like "Resurgent Clinton" (Boston Globe) and "Clinton Ready to Take On McCain" (Reuters). Little if any mention of the delegate situation, way too much focus on "wins" as if it was a general election or some kind of winner-take-all system.

My disgust at the MSM is renewed yet again. Are they truly so stupid that they can't understand the system? Or is it, as I suspect, that they want this to seem like a "back and forth" story, because that's what sells ads...

Meanwhile, the Dems abet this, and the Republicans revel in it.

Posted at March 5, 2008 12:04 PM in response to MSNBC: Last Night's Delegate Breakdown Shows Hillary's Gains Were Modest

Anything to win. Anything to win. And if we can't win, we'll take our ball and go home. Crybabies.

Posted at March 4, 2008 9:23 PM in response to Texas Battle Heats Up: Clinton Camp Allleges Obama Caucusers Locking Out Hillary Backers

Looks to me that HRC was playing for veep, pulling her punches and asking for unity.

Posted at February 21, 2008 9:47 PM in response to Hillary And Obama Answer The Super-Delegate Question

Hillary who?

Posted at February 20, 2008 11:57 AM in response to Obama Increasingly Engaging McCain

Give Hillary a break.

The fork sticking in her is kind of making it hard for her to defend her base against Obama's vicious negative attacks.

Posted at February 19, 2008 10:31 PM in response to Exit Polls: Obama Cut Deep Into Hillary's Core Constituencies

If this "plagiarism" ploy is the best that the Clinton campaign can come up with, then you start to understand why they were so incompetent about understanding the basic rules about Texas' primary.

Wow, are they terrible campaign managers. Do they really expect this will make any voter think of Obama in a bad light? All they're doing is highlighting for everyone over and over again that he's a great speaker! Hey, voters, don't think about how inspirational Obama is. Hey, I said DON'T think about it! Dammit, what's wrong with you voters, don't you know you should be voting for the boring candidate with "substance"??? Geez, you must be from a red state or something.

50%+1 and anything to win, huh? What a GREAT idea. Just what this country and the Dem party need right about now. And then to throw such incompetent management into the mix... I'm really hoping she doesn't win now. That kind of incompetence and partisanship and divisiveness isn't anything this country needs anymore.

Posted at February 18, 2008 10:05 PM in response to Hillary Camp Only Recently Learned About Texas Delegate Rules

If this "plagiarism" ploy is the best that the Clinton campaign can come up with, then you start to understand why they were so incompetent about understanding the basic rules about Texas' primary.

Wow, are they terrible campaign managers. Do they really expect this will make any voter think of Obama in a bad light? All they're doing is highlighting for everyone over and over again that he's a great speaker! Hey, voters, don't think about how inspirational Obama is. Hey, I said DON'T think about it! Dammit, what's wrong with you voters, don't you know you should be voting for the boring candidate with "substance"??? Geez, you must be from a red state or something.

50%+1 and anything to win, huh? What a GREAT idea. Just what this country and the Dem party need right about now. And then to throw such incompetent management into the mix... I'm really hoping she doesn't win now. That kind of incompetence and partisanship and divisiveness isn't anything this country needs anymore.

Posted at February 18, 2008 10:03 PM in response to Hillary Camp Only Recently Learned About Texas Delegate Rules

And this is supposed to be the President ready on Day One? Jeezus, what a clusterf**k of a campaign they've run, and that tells you what kind of a president she might be.

Posted at February 18, 2008 9:32 AM in response to Hillary Camp Only Recently Learned About Texas Delegate Rules