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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Political bits II - (Busy day)

How much of an impact would an Edwards endorsement of Clinton make about now?

(WSJBlog) Is it a good idea for the Obama camp to be making arguments of delegate inevitability?

(Firstread) Chuck Todd echoes the difficulty of Clinton's task saying she'll have to win 55%-60% of the remaining delegates.

(Politico) The Clinton campaign will finally start playing "small states" after March 4, setting up field offices in Wyoming, Montana, etc. (Too late?)

(YouTube) Clinton is running a new ad "calling out" Obama for refusing a debate before Wisconsin.

(AP) From a very slanted, anti-Clinton piece by Ron Fournier on the AP, do I believe this?
Could that be why Bill Richardson, a former U.N. secretary and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, refused to endorse her even after an angry call from the former president? "What," Bill Clinton reportedly asked Richardson, "isn't two Cabinet posts enough?"

And, I didn't know "Up with People" was still around.

(Right now, all the Political bits I come across are pro-Obama. If you can find me something credible and plausible that's pro-Clinton, I'll happily include it.)

posted by mikevotes at 2:50 PM

6 Comments:

  • NYT Online has a story about Obama and McCain going after each other. Does this more than anything else establish a shift in the process from one of primaries to the general? It's certainly going to read like "it's over for Hillary" to the voters.

    Has the country (and the media) shifted it's attention to the Dem-Repub contest? Have Dem voters become exhausted with the process and are they willing to put a fork in it? Jump on the Obama-mojo media spin?

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:42 PM  

  • Bill Clinton's 1992 Campaign Manager Endorses Obama. Is this significant?

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:46 PM  

  • that endorser is an Ohio super delegate and big fish in Ohio Dem cirlces. It matters here in Oh with the Dem establishment (so it matters to HRC!). No play on big constituent bases tho... Look for OH Obama rallies to center on "working class" dems. (As if his pull is with the only non-working dems (Clinton spin)...) HRC is already not wanting to debate at Cleveland State Univ and opting for Youngstown. (hmmm...wonder why?)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:37 PM  

  • EPM, I doubt Wilhelm is significant. Maybe a flashing headline, "Former Clinton Campaign Manager....." but beyond that, what does he bring?

    .....

    Anon, Really? You answered my skepticism.

    Is that the MSNBC debate? Did all her complaints against Schuster get her a friendly ear for change of venue?

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:17 PM  

  • Well, there's this...


    http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/clinton-casts-a-hopeful-eye-toward-ohio-texas-2008-02-13.html

    And for people who care to crunch the delegate numbers themselves, there's a neat site at http://demconwatch.blogspot.com

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:47 AM  

  • Yeah, I haven't really talked about the Texas/Ohio polling yet because it's still too far out. Probably start doing that about a week before.

    My hunch right now is that she'll do well in Ohio, but Texas will be closer. I think she wins, but "is it enough?"

    Right now the bar on those two is set so high for her, that even if she wins, the media may call it not enough.

    (And, I'm going to be very careful citing Mark Penn as predictive. His track record this year hasn't been the best, you know?)

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 7:40 AM  

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