With Obama now leading 10 points in the Gallup Poll, it looks like Pinnochio is losing steam, especially after her embelished trip to Bosnia. Now if only he can make a gigantic leap and make some headway in PA.
Wisconsin Liberal
· 1 year ago
But wasn't she the inevitable candidate. The one who the Presidency belongs to?
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Get ready for a Credentials fight in August.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I think the credentials decision is in June. I would guess it would take a substantial number of signatures on a petition to bring objections to the August floor. By that time, Hillary won't have the votes.
Stevious
· 1 year ago
Hillary won't have enough votes on the credentials committee to support a challenge for Michigan and Florida.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I think you are right, but isn't there a way to appeal to the full convention? Hillary won't have the votes either place, but she can still try to gum up the works.
Stevious
· 1 year ago
If she introduces a motion on the floor, he'll have the votes to deny the motion there as well as in committee. It will just wind up looking desperate.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Then there are 35 SUPER delegates to be verified at the State Convention in early June. Hillary has 12 "committed" and Sen. Obama has 10 but they have had these in some cases for some time. THIRTEEN super-delegates are still uncommitted. It turns out that Obama won the Houston metro area this past weekend by a margin of 2:1, 1020 votes for Obama to Clinton only getting 503. This area represents about 5 million people, 20% black, 33% Hispanic, and the remaining 47% white (Anglo) and Asian.
Hillary, who made almost all of her appearances in Hispanic areas, did get probably 85% of the Hispanic vote but in November, I am sure they will then vote for Obama since Republicans have rarely shown they are friends of the Latino communities. With the attitude of many Republicans on immigration, they probably have less of a chance now getting votes for McCain even though he hasn't been as radical as those like Tancredo. Texas has a good chance of giving its electors to the Democrats for the first time since Carter, Humphrey, and Lyndon Johnson.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
. Hey...when you skip town and don't pay your bills....word gets around Hillary.
Hope all the Dominoes and Subway shops in Pennsylvania take note.
.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
Another "success story" for Hillary.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Yeah but she did her goddamnedest to steal it down here.
Kansaskitty
· 1 year ago
Hillary: You know, Texas never really counted anyway. It's just a piddly latte sipping, Prius driving state that holds caucuses.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
MI and FL should not be seated. The Democratic Party still has rules, unlike the Repukes.
slappymagoo
· 1 year ago
I always said Texas doesn't really count as a state. Now it's nice to know Hillary will agree with me. HA!
Meanwhile, who's gonna remind Bill that he said Hillary needed to win Ohio AND Texas to stay competitive. Whoopsy!
nicho
· 1 year ago
Yeah -- maybe he won the delegates -- but did you hear what his sister's friend's hairdresser said to her neighbor in 1988 -- SHOCKING!
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
When's Hillary's concession speech? Can she afford one at this point?
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
She's apparently off writing checks to the small business providing event support in Ohio!
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Hillary has been bouncing checks all over town. How's she going to fix the damn economy if she can't even balance her checkbook??
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
I wouldn't have any problem with Hillary staying in the race, despite the fact that her odds are long and getting longer, if it weren't for the fact that she's been beating up the likely nominee while endorsing and praising McCain. Now she's saying she's going to take the race all the way to the Convention floor, and threatening a credentials committee fight over Florida and Michigan. It may be that this is just about motivating her supporters to stay with her until the end. Nevertheless, she's been hurting Obama along the way by claiming she's the only viable candidate. This is what I find most upsetting. While her campaign winds down, Clinton would show a lot more class if she'd go after McCain instead.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
The champion of HEALTHCARE isn't paying her staffers health insurance premiums. What a joke!
Slappymagoo. Is is necessary to slime Texas? The Democrats may need our electoral votes to win this fall. A reminder. Texas was ONCE its own nation, a REPUBLIC, which when it joined the United States to become a state, reserved a right to split up into as many as five states. If we did that, we would have TEN U.S. Senators!
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Who would have thunk?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
The nomination was hers to loose. She's got one corner of that picture completed. Poor thing. I blame the pants suits. They're ugly.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
I love this picture of Bill Clinton speaking in Pennsylvania with some stealth Hillary opponents holding up a sign that "It's over!" Reminds me of the "freeway bloggers" and their signs. Would like to see some LIAR signs pop up at Hillary rallies.
Didn't BIll himself say HIllary had to win OHIO AND TEXAS to stay in the race??? Shouldn't the media at least be gently reminding him of this fact?
Callahan
· 1 year ago
I was a delegate at the Collin County Convention. It was held yesterday because there were so many of us we couldn't fit into the original venue.
We started signing in at 10am and the vote wasn't until almost 12am. I don't think anyone left. The Resolutions Committee finished at about 8am.
People seem to have forgotten that Texas is the state of LBJ. For the first time since I started voting in the 80's, it was the Democrats who had to wait in line and the Republicans who trickled in by ones and twos.
If momentum keeps up, there is no reason that Texas cannot go blue in November. Believe what you want, but Texas most definitely counts.
Stevious
· 1 year ago
woohoo! Well, who else is going to the state convention in June?
KISSman
· 1 year ago
Why isn't he media calling Texas for Obama? It seems that even though the popular vote is meaningless as compared to delegates, that's not how they report it. This is why Hillary can hang in this race because she gets to keep states like Nevada and Texas in her column when, in fact, she did not win them.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
yeah!
I always felt Obama won Texas right from the start.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
And Chelsea was asked the Monica question again today....while Obama is getting stronger, 59-30% (Gallup), among Dems who believe he can beat McCrazy.
It's over for the Clintons. Now they can retire to the Bahamas and enjoy that off-shore account.
nicho
· 1 year ago
LeslieB 1 hour ago
I wouldn't have any problem with Hillary staying in the race, despite the fact that her odds are long and getting longer, if it weren't for the fact that she's been beating up the likely nominee while endorsing and praising McCain.
BINGO! Staying in the race is one thing. Being tenacious is admirable. Poisoning the well is something else again. That's just despicable.
jr
· 1 year ago
the pro-Hillary bloggers should be ashamed of themselves. Old girl is finished and they're still attacking Obama
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Still say Obama should have flown down to Austin for a "Victory Party" and made a big deal out of it.
Hillary would have.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
nicho
I wouldn't have any problem with Hillary staying in the race, despite the fact that her odds are long and getting longer, if it weren't for the fact that she's been beating up the likely nominee while endorsing and praising McCain.
BINGO! Staying in the race is one thing. Being tenacious is admirable. Poisoning the well is something else again. That's just despicable.
----
Guess she's more a Romney type than a Huckabee type.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
there just may be hope for a blue Texas...blue-er anyway...
i heard on npr today how the GOP core value of 'competence' has been destroyed by the bush administration fiasco. if McCain tries running on 'competence' he's even more senile than i thought...poor old GOPers got nothing!
paul94611
· 1 year ago
Just like Nevada. Come to think of it Obama did TIE Clinton in New Hampshire. Yep. Before Super Tuesday Obama was 3-0-1. On super Tuesday, a day that Hillary was to win the nomination because Obama was only supposed to win 1 state,Obama fought to a virtual tie in delegates. Since then Obama is 15-2 in nominating contests. Yep. We have a real cliff hanger here folks. A genuine down to the wire contest. Of course, I must be drinking some sort of Kool Aid. I must be a sexist. After all, it is Hillary's post menopausal supporters that are saying: "If I don't get my I am going to vote for McCain". And in so doing join the chorus of Roberts, Alito, Scalia & Thomas as they sing their chorus of "toss 'em a hangar"! I can only surmise that all of the battles for womens civil rights and health care rights matter not once you are post menopausal for many Hillary supporters. So much for fighting to break the glass ceiling argument. It really is a cult of personality fueling Hillary's I am every woman campaign.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Hillabeans is not going anyplace but the convetion in Denver.
It dose not matter one wit if Oboma wins every single state form hear till Denver. She is going to win. It is not about Oboma being black. It is not about him being a better person, it is not about him being a better candiadate. It is about Hillery being unwilling to accept the fact that she in no longer the Queen of the World. It is about Hillery being willing to drag your party into the depths of hell before she will give up her chance to take Bills place in the White House. It is the only thing that she cairs about. It is the only thing she thinks about. It is the only thing: Not the national intrest, not the intrest of her party, not the intrest of her family, nothing except her own intrest. She reminds me of a woman that would be willing to let her kids be abused, by a man to save a merrage to 200k a year. Useless. She is just useless. I am just suprised that it has taken the nation this long to wake up to the fact that Hillery only cairs aobut one person: Hillery. No wonder she has stayed married to Bill for so many years inspite of his abuse and flandering. (He is likely client #8 of the "emperers club" of Spitzers! These narsasists deserve each other! The nation deserves much better!
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Obama wins Texas! But then we knew he had despite the frothings of the mindless lackeys of the monster bitch. I wonder what kind of spin they will be putting on the facts now that they are clear for all to see? One thing that does seem painfully clear after watching the byzantine clunkings of the Texas primary cum caucus system with its tiring, time-consuming certification that turns what should be a straight up vote into some sort of elimination derby to see who remains standing is this. The primary system in America needs immediate and massive reconstruction and reorganization to put this vote clearly and directly into the hands of the voters. The halting and clanking juggernaut is an outdated relic of the 19th century when communications were slowed by distance and more primative forms of travel. I am not a constitutional expert but I have had increasing doubts whether or not the current system is even really democratic. Just look at it: you have system where national and local groups of pols are conniving in back rooms and deciding which states can be permitted to have their favored dates and then meting out punishment of the rest of the states don't go along. And we are allowing differences according to party as well. Any anything which e4ncourages or allows slimy pols to do anything in back rooms without as much daylight as possible is never a good thing-- no matter what party it is. And the superdelegate humbug is simply outrageous. Where is the voter in all of this? Is the assumption that the pols-- our pols -- know better than us, maybe that they are better than us?? Surely the last 7 years and the disaster that is known as the Bush administration should make clear to ever the dullest that pols are not to be trusted-- not only no further than you can throw them, they are not to be trusted even when you are standing face to face with them. Lets start now to make sure the voter, the US citizen, is first in line to cast his or her vote directly for primary candidates and in general elections; lets have the system standardized in every state; I would even say have elections on the same day; we already do that for general elections, why not for the primaries? Maybe then the obscene amounts of money candidates are forced to raise and/or extort from lobbyists could be used for some sort of good works e.g. the Katrina victims are still hurting; the homeowners caught in the clutches of greedy mortgage finance mismanagement need more help than the government will ever provide and little expectation that the ones who were behind this will ever be brought to juistice and stripped of their ill-gotten billions, but I digress... Lets learn from 2008 and revamp the entire primary system: put and leave the voter in the driver's seat This is supposed to be a one citizen one vote democracy lets work toward that end.
LeftCoastOracle
· 1 year ago
My daughter and son-in-law were delegates to their Texas County Convention this week end and their experience was grueling as well. They reported to me that many attendees were unable to get credentialed because their precinct captains had failed to submit their lists of expected attendees. In other words, attendees from some precincts, regardless of who they were supporting, had to run the gauntlet of the credentials committee because of the failure of their precinct captain to do their job: submit a list of registered delegates. The process was very difficult and grueling because four years ago only 500 people showed up while this year 5,000 people showed up for their convention in Harris County (Houston).
Let's not be so quick to ascribe antics to supporters of one candidate or the other and lets be sure of what we're reporting. There's a huge difference between unscrupulous tactics and an overwhelmed system. Let's face it the number of people involved in this primary season is unprecedented and we need to keep all of them involved through the election in November. If we succumb to savaging one another we risk turning people off to the process. Instead let's work to find an easier way to nominate the very best candidate so that in four years we won't have to go through this.
I voted for Obama because I recognize that we have to find a better way to do government and because I believe he offers that potential. If he is elected our president, and if I am right, he can have a powerful influence on the way our candidate is nominated the next time around.
Let's chill out, to quote a former president, and behave like grown ups until we have a candidate. Then let's turn our attention to beating John McCain in November because if you think we have problems now, just wait until we have a President McCain.
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
Ouch well it doesnt matter cause Hillary will use all improper methods to achieve her goal. In the end she might end up with the Governorship of New York or the Emperor of the Republic.
Zapata
· 1 year ago
You think O husein has won ? let me remind you that the pres. election is in Nov. I fell very certain that Obama will not win Texas or the rest of the country. We mexicans will not be voting for him nor do I think the Asian Americans, Jewish American's the majority of seniors, and who knows what other group he has managed to alienate. And lets not forget probably Fla. and Mich. may go for McCain. So maybe Obama didn't win Texas after all.
Thurston Howell the Third
· 1 year ago
John please do your homework. The Texas Democratic State convention is not until June. That's when the delegate count will be official.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Still say Obama should have flown down to Austin for a "Victory Party" and made a big deal out of it...Bush Bites
True. Hillary would have done just that. But eventually the media will report it and Obama is busy in Pennsylvania, speaking yesterday (or the day before) to a crowd of over 20 thousand.
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Hillary, who made almost all of her appearances in Hispanic areas, did get probably 85% of the Hispanic vote but in November, I am sure they will then vote for Obama since Republicans have rarely shown they are friends of the Latino communities. With the attitude of many Republicans on immigration, they probably have less of a chance now getting votes for McCain even though he hasn't been as radical as those like Tancredo. Texas has a good chance of giving its electors to the Democrats for the first time since Carter, Humphrey, and Lyndon Johnson.
Hey...when you skip town and don't pay your bills....word gets around Hillary.
Hope all the Dominoes and Subway shops in Pennsylvania take note.
.
Meanwhile, who's gonna remind Bill that he said Hillary needed to win Ohio AND Texas to stay competitive. Whoopsy!
Slappymagoo. Is is necessary to slime Texas? The Democrats may need our electoral votes to win this fall. A reminder. Texas was ONCE its own nation, a REPUBLIC, which when it joined the United States to become a state, reserved a right to split up into as many as five states. If we did that, we would have TEN U.S. Senators!
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We started signing in at 10am and the vote wasn't until almost 12am. I don't think anyone left. The Resolutions Committee finished at about 8am.
People seem to have forgotten that Texas is the state of LBJ. For the first time since I started voting in the 80's, it was the Democrats who had to wait in line and the Republicans who trickled in by ones and twos.
If momentum keeps up, there is no reason that Texas cannot go blue in November. Believe what you want, but Texas most definitely counts.
I always felt Obama won Texas right from the start.
It's over for the Clintons. Now they can retire to the Bahamas and enjoy that off-shore account.
I wouldn't have any problem with Hillary staying in the race, despite the fact that her odds are long and getting longer, if it weren't for the fact that she's been beating up the likely nominee while endorsing and praising McCain.
BINGO! Staying in the race is one thing. Being tenacious is admirable. Poisoning the well is something else again. That's just despicable.
Hillary would have.
I wouldn't have any problem with Hillary staying in the race, despite the fact that her odds are long and getting longer, if it weren't for the fact that she's been beating up the likely nominee while endorsing and praising McCain.
BINGO! Staying in the race is one thing. Being tenacious is admirable. Poisoning the well is something else again. That's just despicable.
----
Guess she's more a Romney type than a Huckabee type.
i heard on npr today how the GOP core value of 'competence' has been destroyed by the bush administration fiasco. if McCain tries running on 'competence' he's even more senile than i thought...poor old GOPers got nothing!
Come to think of it Obama did TIE Clinton in New Hampshire.
Yep.
Before Super Tuesday Obama was 3-0-1.
On super Tuesday, a day that Hillary was to win the nomination because Obama was only supposed to win 1 state,Obama fought to a virtual tie in delegates.
Since then Obama is 15-2 in nominating contests.
Yep.
We have a real cliff hanger here folks.
A genuine down to the wire contest.
Of course, I must be drinking some sort of Kool Aid.
I must be a sexist.
After all, it is Hillary's post menopausal supporters that are saying: "If I don't get my I am going to vote for McCain". And in so doing join the chorus of Roberts, Alito, Scalia & Thomas as they sing their chorus of "toss 'em a hangar"!
I can only surmise that all of the battles for womens civil rights and health care rights matter not once you are post menopausal for many Hillary supporters.
So much for fighting to break the glass ceiling argument.
It really is a cult of personality fueling Hillary's I am every woman campaign.
It dose not matter one wit if Oboma wins every single state form hear till Denver. She is going to win. It is not about Oboma being black. It is not about him being a better person, it is not about him being a better candiadate. It is about Hillery being unwilling to accept the fact that she in no longer the Queen of the World. It is about Hillery being willing to drag your party into the depths of hell before she will give up her chance to take Bills place in the White House.
It is the only thing that she cairs about.
It is the only thing she thinks about.
It is the only thing: Not the national intrest, not the intrest of her party, not the intrest of her family, nothing except her own intrest.
She reminds me of a woman that would be willing to let her kids be abused, by a man to save a merrage to 200k a year. Useless. She is just useless. I am just suprised that it has taken the nation this long to wake up to the fact that Hillery only cairs aobut one person: Hillery.
No wonder she has stayed married to Bill for so many years inspite of his abuse and flandering. (He is likely client #8 of the "emperers club" of Spitzers!
These narsasists deserve each other!
The nation deserves much better!
One thing that does seem painfully clear after watching the byzantine clunkings of the Texas primary cum caucus system with its tiring, time-consuming certification that turns what should be a straight up vote into some sort of elimination derby to see who remains standing is this. The primary system in America needs immediate and massive reconstruction and reorganization to put this vote clearly and directly into the hands of the voters. The halting and clanking juggernaut is an outdated relic of the 19th century when communications were slowed by distance and more primative forms of travel. I am not a constitutional expert but I have had increasing doubts whether or not the current system is even really democratic. Just look at it: you have system where national and local groups of pols are conniving in back rooms and deciding which states can be permitted to have their favored dates and then meting out punishment of the rest of the states don't go along. And we are allowing differences according to party as well. Any anything which e4ncourages or allows slimy pols to do anything in back rooms without as much daylight as possible is never a good thing-- no matter what party it is. And the superdelegate humbug is simply outrageous. Where is the voter in all of this? Is the assumption that the pols-- our pols -- know better than us, maybe that they are better than us?? Surely the last 7 years and the disaster that is known as the Bush administration should make clear to ever the dullest that pols are not to be trusted-- not only no further than you can throw them, they are not to be trusted even when you are standing face to face with them. Lets start now to make sure the voter, the US citizen, is first in line to cast his or her vote directly for primary candidates and in general elections; lets have the system standardized in every state; I would even say have elections on the same day; we already do that for general elections, why not for the primaries? Maybe then the obscene amounts of money candidates are forced to raise and/or extort from lobbyists could be used for some sort of good works e.g. the Katrina victims are still hurting; the homeowners caught in the clutches of greedy mortgage finance mismanagement need more help than the government will ever provide and little expectation that the ones who were behind this will ever be brought to juistice and stripped of their ill-gotten billions, but I digress... Lets learn from 2008 and revamp the entire primary system: put and leave the voter in the driver's seat This is supposed to be a one citizen one vote democracy lets work toward that end.
Let's not be so quick to ascribe antics to supporters of one candidate or the other and lets be sure of what we're reporting. There's a huge difference between unscrupulous tactics and an overwhelmed system. Let's face it the number of people involved in this primary season is unprecedented and we need to keep all of them involved through the election in November. If we succumb to savaging one another we risk turning people off to the process. Instead let's work to find an easier way to nominate the very best candidate so that in four years we won't have to go through this.
I voted for Obama because I recognize that we have to find a better way to do government and because I believe he offers that potential. If he is elected our president, and if I am right, he can have a powerful influence on the way our candidate is nominated the next time around.
Let's chill out, to quote a former president, and behave like grown ups until we have a candidate. Then let's turn our attention to beating John McCain in November because if you think we have problems now, just wait until we have a President McCain.
And lets not forget probably Fla. and Mich. may go for McCain. So maybe Obama didn't win Texas after all.
True. Hillary would have done just that. But eventually the media will report it and Obama is busy in Pennsylvania, speaking yesterday (or the day before) to a crowd of over 20 thousand.
Texas is over; PA lies ahead.
GoBama!