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Democratic Nomination
Here is a discussion between Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke on The Beltway Boys about the weakness Barack Obama is showing among key Democratic voting groups -- which just may provide a significant opening for John McCain in the General Election.
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Here is video of a CNN report that makes it clear Hillary Clinton has no plans of quitting the race for the Democratic Nomination any time soon. She is getting increasing pressure to do so, but shows no signs of being ready to throw in the towel. Let the drama continue!
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Here is video of Barack Obama ridiculing both Hillary and Bill Clinton for the recent talk of him taking the Vice-Presidential slot on a ticket with Hillary Clinton as the Presidential candidate. Obama is throwing cold water on that idea:
Link: sevenload.com
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Here is a great example of the "squabbling" going on within the Democratic Party right now over a "re-vote" in Michigan and Florida. This segment from Meet the Press yesterday, March 9, 2008, has Tom Daschle - a surrogate for Obama, and Ed Rendell - a surrogate for Clinton, talking about how to resolve the fact that the "Democratic" Party very undemocratically is not allowing those two huge states to be represented in their nominating process:
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Right Wing News has some great samples from Daily Kos of what Nelsa talked about in his previous post - Democrats "eating their young!" The bloodbath in the Democratic Party has been set in motion. With Hillary Clinton's big wins yesterday, she is determined to keep going and very well may carry this fight on into the summer or even all the way to the Democratic Convention in August. The level of ill will between Obama and Clinton supporters is growing stronger.
Below are three of the quotes from the far-left website Daily Kos. Let's just say they show that Hillary Clinton is not their favorite person right now:
"I would have willingly supported any Democratic nomineee, hoping to put an end to the Republican dominance of government. No longer. Barack Obama has won the primary. Hillary is all but dead. But if the Clinton's, and Mark Penn, and Terry McAlliff think they are going to steal this nomination from the voters in the Democratic Party, they are in for an unpleasant surprise.
I will work unrelentingly to deny Hillary Clinton the White House because she has shown a complete lack of respect for the Party, the voters, and the process of democracy, itself.
I have just joined the ranks of Clinton haters." -- Granny Doc
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"Barack Obama must run as a fourth party candidate in November if somehow he is denied the Democratic nomination. Barack can win as a fourth party because I believe his support (about 40%+ of the nation) is rock-ribbed (whatever that means), while the remaining vote will be split among Hillary, McCain and Nader." -- fightorleave
"I grieve for my country.
Yes, it is About Race. Over 20% of white voters in Ohio (MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/... say that race was an important factor in voting and they went 3-to-1 for Clinton. That's the margin of difference. This has been a consistent result in exit polling for the last dozen contests (MSNBC, CNN, Pew). Pew Research found that 25% of Clinton supporters will vote for McCain over Obama (Meanwhile, only 10% of Obama voters will vote for McCain). Now what else could that possibly mean than it is not about policy or qualifications for these people, it is about race plain and simple.
...But what grieves me the most though is that if Clinton wins the nomination it will set back the Democratic Party and the United States for decades. ...If Clinton is going to campaign as just another Bush, then why should they be motivated to turn out if the choice is Hillary Bush versus John McBush? President McBush Here We Come." -- DJ ProFusion
You think this is not going to get good before it's over?
Last night was a huge win for Sen. John McCain all the way around. He not only clinched the GOP Nomination for President with four blowout wins, he also saw Sen. Hillary Clinton win three of four Democratic Primaries - including Texas and Ohio - guaranteeing the increasingly bitter Dem nomination battle will drag on for weeks or months!
Clinton scored a blowout against Obama in Ohio, and narrowly won in Texas as well. She has effectively stopped Obama's momentum, and now can work of dragging this race all the way to the August Democratic Convention and hope to win the nomination on the strength of Super Delegates. Meanwhile, John McCain has gained precious time to consolidate his strength, build a national organization and escape the huge money advantage of the Democrats being turned against him until much later than they would like. As I said - a great night for John McCain!
Here's the Washington Times summary of Hillary Clinton's victories last night:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slowed Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama by scoring wins yesterday in Ohio and Texas, drawing out the Democratic battle for president even as Sen. John McCain completed a once-unthinkable comeback by clinching the Republican presidential nomination.
The Clinton campaign said Ohio and Texas were must wins to keep her in the race to the next big contest April 22 in Pennsylvania, hoping that mounting scrutiny will damage Mr. Obama's credibility and sap his rock-star-like appeal. read more »
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Michael Barone, perhaps the smartest political observer in America, has written an outstanding piece that lays out the "super fight" that may be coming within the Democratic Party over the nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. As Barone points out, it is delicious irony that the Dems system of proportionally awarding delegates - designed to keep all their constituencies happy - may be about to produce a disastrous outcome in their nomination race:
It's appropriate that our two major political parties are depicted as different animals. Forty days and forty nights out from the Iowa caucuses, the elephant and the donkey seem very different indeed. The Republicans have been split on attitudinal lines, between varying strains of conservatism and moderation.
And their delegate selection rules, based on their notion of fairness, have produced a clear and unambiguous outcome.
The Democrats, in contrast, have been split on demographic lines, between blacks and Latinos, old and young, upscale and downscale. The delegate selection rules, based on their notion of fairness, are heading the party not to a clear outcome but to a conflict in which the losing side is likely to feel profoundly aggrieved.
Winner-take-all is the Republican idea of fairness. The party seeks unity and uniformity, and doesn't encourage dissent. You know the rules in advance, and if you come out ahead you get the big prize. Thus, few Republicans thought it unfair when John McCain got all 58 delegates from Missouri on Super Tuesday after beating Mike Huckabee there 33 percent to 32 percent. (Click "Read More" Below) read more »
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