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Barack Obama Hillary Clinton The remaining primaries cannot put either one of them over the top to 2,025. Furthermore, Obama's lead in pledged delegates is insurmountable. Of the 4,049 total delegates, about 800 are super delegates. That leaves about 3,250 elected delegates of which 2,500 have already been chosen. That means that there are only 750 delegates up for election in all the remaining primaries including Michigan and Florida if there is a do over. Obama now leads Hillary in elected delegates by 135. Of the remaining 750 delegates remaining to be elected, she would need to win an average of a 58/42 per cent margin of victory in the remaining primaries. That would mean that she would need a 16 percentage point margin in every remaining primary. And she is not going to win some of the remaining states. The super delegates will need to put either one into a majority of 2025 delegates. If Hillary is counting on them to do this, she is off base. That would truly divide the party and dis-enfranchise the African American vote. Furthermore, the remaining cost of the useless primary battles could be over $50 Million. That is why the analysts for all the major networks are happy to see this sickening battle go on. And that is what Hillary is counting upon. This is the media that she claims is biased against her. That media bias complaint is what the right wingers have always used falsely to make their case. Hillary's campaign tactics are a xerox copy of Rove's campaign strategies. Rove would complain about the media bias and use terrorist scare tactics against the liberal opposition. This is the DLC approach to politics. Like Senator Lieberman, Hillary has now adopted the Republican approach to winning the primary. She would be better off making an agreement with Obama not to spend any money on the remaining primaries and give what they would have spent to a superfund to support universal health care. Unfortunately, Hillary is too selfish to allow this to happen. novamradio.com Sheldon Drobny was the co-founder of Nova M radio and Air America Radio. He has supported many philanthropic causes and is currently involved in purchasing radio stations for liberal talk radio with his new company, Nova M Radio, Inc. Mr. Drobny specializes in business and tax matters and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court as a non-attorney. Less than 200 non-attorneys have been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court since its inception in 1942. Mr. Drobny received a Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting from Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honorary fraternity recognizing acadamic achievement in colleges of business administration.
Faculty member at University of Kentucky. Teacher, Researcher, social activist. Political independent who believes in better government, not necessarily smaller or larger government.
Hilary Hilary Clinton has a right to continue to campaign for the Democratic Nomination if she so wishes to do that. Just because some do not like her or feel she is somehow hurting the party is not a basis for her having to pull out of this competition. The decision to terminate her Presidential bid has to be one that Senator Clinton makes, not anyone else. Yes, it is true if Senator Clinton does continue to run and does attempt to win the Democratic Nomination by getting "super delegates" to support her when many states have gone to Senator Obama and Obama leads in pledged delegate count, she will also have to deal with the consequences of that effort. If many of the independents like myself view the Democratic party system as merely supporting the "establishment candidate" and ignorning the will of the Democratic voters we are likely to bolt the party even if Obama conceeds the Nomination to Senator Clinton and supports her like a true trooper. Moving ahead Senator Clinton has pretty big major obstacles to overcome. She must get the Blacks and Independents who have stronly supported Obama to support her after attacking him and denegrading his message of hope. That will be a major challenge for her. However, I would be the first to tell you -- it is her right to try. That is how the political process works and she is welcome to make the effort. If we start to deny people even the chance to try and reach their dreams we embrace the philosphy of George W. Bush, which is "You no longer have any rights but those I allow you to have." by
Peter Wedlund (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 164 comments)
on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 5:16:12 PM
My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
It aint over til its over In the same breath you use to note that neither candidate has the requisite number of delegates you ask Senator Clinton to give up. Looks like we are headed to a brokered convention. I suspect that, were you a Clinton supporter, you might view these events differently, but a nice try nevertheless. Today Clinton put out a feeler as to both running on the ticket. She failed to mention which would be the VP candidate though..... by
ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 6:35:32 PM
You're in denial "The remaining primaries cannot put either one of them over the top to 2,025." So neither can win based on 'conventional' projection. "Of the remaining 750 delegates remaining to be elected, she would need to win an average of a 58/42 per cent margin of victory in the remaining primaries." So Hillary will do that! "The super delegates will need to put either one into a majority of 2025 delegates." So Hillary will increase her superdelegates! "That would truly divide the party and dis-enfranchise the African American vote." If that actually happened and Hillary won, she will fix that! "Furthermore, the remaining cost of the useless primary battles could be over $50 Million." So Hillary will raise more than $50 million! "Hillary's campaign tactics are a xerox copy of Rove's campaign strategies" Since when anybody has a monopoly, a patent, on campaign strategy? Since when does a strategy has to comply with any notion or value of the media or the pundits? "Unfortunately, Hillary is too selfish to allow this to happen." Since when does a campaign is a contest of unselfishness? If you're not selfish don't even run - always let somebody else win! Do you think Obama will suddenly become unselfish, drops out and look stupid? The difference between pundits and winning candidates is the latter actually overcome daunting challenges and win! The former talks. Oh yeah, Obama does that too, very well I gather. But thrown him the kitchen sink and he caughs. by
TomK (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 217 comments)
on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 11:06:22 PM
My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
Thanks Tom Some times I think Im trapped in a Franz Kafka novel here of late. It is good to see other folks whose grasp of reality remains firm..... by
ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6:37:10 AM
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