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Hillaryis44 urges her to fight on:
Obama is unelectable and not qualified to be president.
On the night Obama lost South Dakota (Obama’s own projections had him winning South Dakota by 15 percent) he spoke in the same hall in which Mondale conceded to the Reagan landslide.
Obama will either concede now or in November.
Obama won’t win Democrats he needs to win (like the Democrats on this very website). In state after state many Democrats clearly state they will either NOT vote, vote for the unacceptable John McCain, or write in Hillary’s name. That Democrats, many who have never voted for a Republican or nightmared about voting for a Republican, to say they will vote for a Republican is shocking and foreshadows doom for the Democratic? Party in November - if Superdelegates actually vote for Rezko/Ayres/Pfleger/Wright/Farrakhan’s friend - Obama.
Hillary supporters will not vote for Obama on any ticket. Last night, at the Hillary rally, the shouts were Denver, Denver - not tears nor surrender.
No tears nor surrender came from the voters of South Dakota either. No matter how much Big Media insisted Obama was the nominee the people voted for Hillary. Big Media cannot force feed Obama to “bitter” small town America.
Last night, Hillary asked America to write to her. Hillary told us this was our campaign.
Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we’ve come and where we need to go as a party, it’s a question I don’t take lightly. This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight. But this has always been your campaign, so to the 18 million people who voted for me and to our many other supporters out there of all ages, I want to hear from you. I hope you’ll go to my website at HillaryClinton.com and share your thoughts with me and help in any way that you can.
Hillary spoke about our resilience, our ability to overcome challenges. Hillary was speaking about America, but her words are especially true of her supporters.
So let’s wait and see how successful her plea to her supporters was (or at least if it was successful enough for her to spin it as such). The claim that, “My supporters have urged my to continue this fight for the American People”, is her liekly rationale for continuing in the race.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am
*gets the popcorn ready*
June 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I am still skeptical. Hillary would risk the chance of turning into Huckabee towards the end of the GOP campaign, where the longer she stays in, the more and more ridiculous it becomes when the game is already over.
What’s hilarious is that after all the “count every vote” we heard in 2000, they disenfranchise their FL voters, once again.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Clinton will support Obama, but she will not do it graciously as Romney did for McCain.
Many of her supports are beyond angry, and Clinton knows this. She is looking at 2012.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I highly doubt it. Look what happened to Huckabee by hanging on to long. It almost became a joke when the guy had no shot. I think it would be risky for Hillary to do so, and she knows that the damage she could cause her party would damage the goodwill the party would have for her.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:07 am
When millions of woman feel that an under-qualified male beat out a qualified female, Clinton must show respect to her supporters (mostly women). These woman all have experiences regarding be judged different from males, or being passed over for a promotion.
Clinton owes them large. Never before has a woman actually been able to rally them together to support a female candidate. Liz Dole and Gerry Ferraro could not.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Almost makes me want to donate to her campaign, make up a sob story and post it on her site with the message (Take it to Denver!” Is that so very wrong of me?
June 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
But what’s she gonna do if she stays in? Not a single Obama super-d will flip at this point. And she needs tons of them. The only reason to stay in the race is to a) cripple Obama’s chances in the general or b) hope “the tape” comes out and it’s SO bad that Obama loses a third of his support overnight. That’s it. There’s no “popular vote” or “Michigan and Florida” argument that will sway a single super-d at this point.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
It’s (b). And other unknowns like (b).
June 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
HillaryClinton.com does not yet look like the website of someone who has withdrawn. I went there to give her my “On to Denver!” message.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
DaveG, you’re looking at this from the angle of a dispassionate outsider. Of COURSE she has no shot at the nomination at this point. You’re right she’s not going to switch any supers to her side. That’s not the point. As BobH has done, visit her website and read the reactions on her blog. I’d say some 60% are adamant that she NOT be Sen Obama’s VP, and think that fighting at the convention or forming a 3rd party would virtually guarantee her the Presidency. Another 20-30% will support any decision she makes (reluctantly saying they’ll vote for her for VP). They are not thinking rationally. Will many of them change their minds come November? Probably, but a large minority will probably sit it out or vote for Sen McCain. Time will tell…