A lengthy response :-p (Eastside Chris)
Reply to: shvotz@yahoo.com
Date: 2008-04-25, 3:52PM CDT
James Carville (on the site you posted, Elmer) makes a good point: if Hillary can win big in Indiana (along the same margins of Pennsylvania) then it's going to cause people to consider her again. She can't win the nomination, though. It's over for her.
Consider how desparate she's been: her campaign is now touting the fact that she has somehow overtaken Obama in the popular vote count. This is highly misleading; for it to be true, you have to include Michigan, a state that all Democratic candidates at the time agreed on as not being able to count, and a state that didn't even have Obama's name on the ballot.
Now, let's say that we DO want to count Michigan. Then let's say that we'll give Obama the 40% vote count of the uncommitted voters in the primary, which is pretty generous to Hillary. With that count, Obama STILL has the popular vote count to this date!
He's leading in popular votes, he's leading in states won, and he's leading in delegate numbers. If the current trends continue (and they should, especially if Hillary can't become victorious in states like North Carolina or Oregon), then the superdelegates are going to need to hear a lot of convincing arguments to vote against the person the people chose.
As for whether or not I would support Hillary as a candidate? Yes, I would. I don't think she's the BEST candidate we have, but I think she could have been a formidable candidate were it not for Obama.
I have no response for the racist. I do question where this hostility against blacks is coming from, and if they honestly behave this way in public (or do they just behave this way due to the anonymity of the internet).
It would do well for whoever should win the nomination to chose the other as their running mate. I know a lot of people would find this maddening due to the hostility between the two campaigns. However, it would do the candidate good to show that s/he can bring the other into the ticket, thus bringing support from the other's candidacy into their own. That is, if Barack Obama should take the candidacy (which he undoubtedly will), then he should extend his hand to Hillary to be his VP --- and she should accept.
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