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Madtowntripper
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When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor...
#8018115 - 02/13/08 03:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I thought you were on their side, Jimmy.
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(CNN) — He hinted at a similar sentiment earlier this week on CNN, but James Carville – a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s White House run — was decidedly more blunt Wednesday on the impact a loss in Texas or Ohio would have on her presidential bid.
"Make no mistake," Bill Clinton's former chief strategist told the Orlando Sentinel. "If she loses either Texas or Ohio, this thing is done."
The Clinton campaign has increasingly placed importance on those two March 4 primaries following eight straight losses for the New York Democrat since Super Tuesday. On Tuesday night, she was swept in the so called Potomac primary, losing to Obama in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
In a conference call with reporters earlier Wednesday, Clinton campaign aides noted 60 percent of the remaining delegates are in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — all states where polls show the New York senator is leading Obama. But delegates in those states will not be awarded on a winner-take-all basis, and Clinton staffers said Wednesday that their expectation was that the two candidates would be within 25 delegates of each other following the March 4 contests.
Obama campaign aides said Wednesday they believe it is nearly impossible for Clinton to catch up to Obama in the delegate count under the current guidelines, even if she wins all three contests.
Speaking on CNN's The Situation Room earlier this week, Carville struck a similar note.
"The truth is that Sen. Clinton has to win Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania," he said. "If she wins those three, she's probably the nominee. If she loses one of those three, then Sen. Obama is probably going to be the nominee. That's a fact."
"We have a lot of debates left to go," Carville continued. "This has been a very close contest. Democrats want to hear from both of them. I've seen the Clintons counted out before. I would be very reluctant to count the Clintons out."
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afoaf
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Re: When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor... [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8018680 - 02/13/08 05:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm going to go masturbate to the thought of Hilary being eliminated.
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fireworks_god
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Re: When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor... [Re: afoaf]
#8021128 - 02/14/08 06:05 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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What do you think her plan is, if she has one? The only way to stop momentum like that is with a whack to the back of the knee, nothing else is going to stop him. She's either going to get really dirty to win this or breakdown from the stress.
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Seuss
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Re: When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor... [Re: fireworks_god]
#8021194 - 02/14/08 06:54 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> What do you think her plan is, if she has one?
The emotional tears seemed to work the last few times... my money is on more of the same...
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Re: When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor... [Re: Seuss]
#8022671 - 02/14/08 02:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Believe it or not Texas is full of racist people.
I've even talked with immigrants from Mexico telling me "Niggers have big lips" and stuff.
Which blew my white suburban mind that Mexicans could be racist against blacks. Apparently the races and classes don't mix much south of the border.
Anyways, I think she has most of Texas in her pocket.
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Re: When Your Opponent is Drowning, Throw Them An Anchor... [Re: blackegg]
#8024407 - 02/14/08 08:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nah, even if she does actually win Texas, she can't win with a substansial enough margin to gain a considerable bit more delegates than Obama. Delegates are awarded porportionally and there is something in the way the districts in Texas are arranged so that the areas with substansially more urban black people receive more delegates than areas with more Latinos. The most she can do is pretty much break even with him in this state, and the same goes for Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Obama's campaign doesn't think they'll gain more than a 100 delegates on her for the rest of the race, but I do think that as he gains more momentum, more and more superdelegates will pledge support with him, especially as Hillary acts more and more desperately, as the party wants to finish this one before it divides them. I think it will be over when Hillary concedes defeat after March 4th.
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