AMERICAblog: Senator Evan Bayh: Do as I say, not as I do
ahaque
· 1 year ago
Hillary Clinton's Last Hurrah! Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania with a 9.2% margin is indeed decisive and a morale booster. However, this translates into a pledged delegate pick of 10 only Hillary's 84 to Barack's 74. In the overall pledge delegate count Barack leads Hillary by 1494 to 1333, a lead of 161 delegates.
In Pennsylvania, the core constituencies voted in their usual pattern i.e. young, well off as well as African Americans for Obama and women for Clinton. The blue collar white workers however made the difference as they were not able to overcome racial prejudices and tilted the primary in Clintons favour. Most polls did indicate that Clinton will win by between 6 and 10 per cent. A poll conducted by a local university came closest to the actual result.
Pennsylvania is Hillary's last Hurrah as Obama is leading by over 15 points in North Carolina and is almost even in Indiana. Mathematially, Hillary has no chance to gain a lead in pledged delegates. But who cares about them, the Clintons (both Hillary and Bill) used all the dirty tricks they could against Obama to win Pennsylvania. New York Times was quite right to criticise their Republican like tactics. It seems that Clintons are hell bent on snatching the nomination even if their fight destroys the Democratic Party. This has already given respectability to McCain, who was otherwise visibly a weak candidate.
There is however no indication that Hillary will quit after Indiana and North Carolina. Clintons will probably go even more negative and use Karl Rove style strategy (James Carville is beginning to sound more like him every day) in order to muddy the waters and confuse super delegates so they hold off siding with Obama. Their game plan seems to be that if there is no clear nominee until the convention they can then deploy back room bargaining to win on the second ballot. This process will weaken and damage the Democratic Party and their chances of winning the White House in November will be greatly reduced.
According to latest Rasmussen Reports, Hillary is still viewed negatively by 53% voters (highest amongst the three candidates) and despite Pennsylvania they give Obama an 81.1% chance of winning the Democratic nomination (link below).
It is now up to the Democratic Party leaders and elders to decide if they want the fight to go on to convention floor in August and lose the White House in November or decide on a nominee after May 5 primaries. This can be accomplished by asking the 300+ uncommitted super delegates to decide now.
dad
· 1 year ago
let Bayh goons be Bayh gones
grandma
· 1 year ago
Is Bayh prepared to lose if she is the nominee?....he better be cuz that is what will happen.
He's talking out of both sides of his mouth.....just like her.
I am NOT voting for her EVER.
Hillary = Crybaby:
Geoff Garin, the man who replaced Mark Penn as the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, complains on the op-ed page of The Washington Post that Barack Obama’s campaign is overly personal in its criticisms of Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Greenspan just made an off-hand remark during an interview that the Clinton campaign is sending crazy Bill only "to rural white communities in North Carolina". Hummm, one might imagine race-based stumping by an ex President often called "Americ's first black president" would be of interest to news producers...
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
The masks are coming off in a Gatling Gun barage of old white men farting from the wrong hole.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Hypocritical little WASP.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Little Evan is auditioning to be Hillary's Veep.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Not to keep ragging on poor Mrs. Greenspan but she just interviewed failed Bush booby Tom Ridge, now appearing as a McCain surrogate. Ridge was asked by Mrs. G. if McCain will continue to separate himself from Team Bush...Doesn't Ridge's mere presence constitute a lack of separation???
jr
· 1 year ago
"we need to help John MCCain win so Hillary can run in 2012 because in 2016 she'll be too wrinkly"-Evan Bayh
osage
· 1 year ago
Let's assume for the sake of discussion that IN super-delegates are deficient in math skills and have devined a way in which Clinton can surpasss Obama in popular votes; WHY would they not endorse HER NOW if they beleive she is going to be the next president? WHY would they WAIT for her to win and then jump on the bandwagon AFTER SHE NO LONGER NEEDS THEIR SUPPORT? Doesn't it make more sense to endorse the candidate they BELIEVE WILL WIN when that person still NEEDS their vote? What good will it do THEM to endorse a candidate who either isn't going to be the next president or no longer needs to reward them for their endorsement? Where's the logic in that?
Delronda
· 1 year ago
I'll never forget that during the 90's, slime like Evan Bayh stood by Bill Clinton as he lied right to our faces and went on to commit perjury. Evan Bayh is an old-school corrupt crony who like the Clintons is more concerned with his own pursuit of raw power and money. Politico was one of the few blogs to cover his downright criminality early on: http://www.politico.com/
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Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania with a 9.2% margin is indeed decisive and a morale booster. However, this translates into a pledged delegate pick of 10 only Hillary's 84 to Barack's 74. In the overall pledge delegate count Barack leads Hillary by 1494 to 1333, a lead of 161 delegates.
In Pennsylvania, the core constituencies voted in their usual pattern i.e. young, well off as well as African Americans for Obama and women for Clinton. The blue collar white workers however made the difference as they were not able to overcome racial prejudices and tilted the primary in Clintons favour. Most polls did indicate that Clinton will win by between 6 and 10 per cent. A poll conducted by a local university came closest to the actual result.
Pennsylvania is Hillary's last Hurrah as Obama is leading by over 15 points in North Carolina and is almost even in Indiana. Mathematially, Hillary has no chance to gain a lead in pledged delegates. But who cares about them, the Clintons (both Hillary and Bill) used all the dirty tricks they could against Obama to win Pennsylvania. New York Times was quite right to criticise their Republican like tactics. It seems that Clintons are hell bent on snatching the nomination even if their fight destroys the Democratic Party. This has already given respectability to McCain, who was otherwise visibly a weak candidate.
There is however no indication that Hillary will quit after Indiana and North Carolina. Clintons will probably go even more negative and use Karl Rove style strategy (James Carville is beginning to sound more like him every day) in order to muddy the waters and confuse super delegates so they hold off siding with Obama. Their game plan seems to be that if there is no clear nominee until the convention they can then deploy back room bargaining to win on the second ballot. This process will weaken and damage the Democratic Party and their chances of winning the White House in November will be greatly reduced.
According to latest Rasmussen Reports, Hillary is still viewed negatively by 53% voters (highest amongst the three candidates) and despite Pennsylvania they give Obama an 81.1% chance of winning the Democratic nomination (link below).
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/...
It is now up to the Democratic Party leaders and elders to decide if they want the fight to go on to convention floor in August and lose the White House in November or decide on a nominee after May 5 primaries. This can be accomplished by asking the 300+ uncommitted super delegates to decide now.
He's talking out of both sides of his mouth.....just like her.
I am NOT voting for her EVER.
Hillary = Crybaby:
Geoff Garin, the man who replaced Mark Penn as the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, complains on the op-ed page of The Washington Post that Barack Obama’s campaign is overly personal in its criticisms of Mrs. Clinton.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/25...
Hummm, one might imagine race-based stumping by an ex President often called "Americ's first black president" would be of interest to news producers...
yum! love it!