The Democratic contest is nowhere near over. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will be ecstatic with their performance on Super Tuesday but neither will be overly down-hearted either.
The Democratic contest is nowhere near over. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will be ecstatic with their performance on Super Tuesday. Hillary did what she needed to do: win New York and California and prevent Obama from running the table elsewhere. But the prize of Missouri, which would have made her the winner on night, just eluded her. Likewise, Obama did enough: winning 13 states and ensuring that Hillary did not open up a mammoth lead in the delegate count. Yet, he failed to pull off a win in California, Massachusetts or New Jersey that would have changed the nature of the entire race.
I still think that Obama wins by avoiding being knocked out. The next set of contests are favourable to him and he has the money to keep on going. One thing to watch is if the Obama campaign has any endorsements to roll out today. After New Hampshire, the Obama folk rolled out John Kerry and several other big names to buck up their troops.
Noticeably both Hillary and Obama’s election night remarks, delivered before some crucial results were known, tried to play on the other’s turf. Hillary’s speech included some dreamy lines which were very similar in tone to Obama’s signature style. While Obama laid out some rather wonky policy proposals. Part of what makes this race so unpredictable is how extreme the strengths and weaknesses of the two candidates are. Obama is remarkably inexperienced for a presidential candidate, just four years ago he was an unheard of State Senator. But equally Clinton can not project herself as a change candidate when she has already lived in the White House for eight years. For Democrats this time round, there is no happy medium.
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February 6th, 2008 1:27pmCLINTON WINS BIG ANOTHER UPSET FOR OBAMA AND MEDIA! Barack Obama might have captured 3-more states on Super Tuesday, but Clinton leads the delegate count. Obama speech on super Tuesday appears to be addressing black voters only, guess Uncle teddy didn’t help? If you are still undecided today then here’s a thought: If you want REAL change and we all do, you have to have a change agent that knows the system and has the contacts to create that change. Democratic nominee will be attacked by the Republican Party and, more importantly slimy political world that surrounds the GOP. These ‘independent’ organizations have a sole purpose: to attack relentlessly, in the most vicious possible ways. Who is best equipped to handle the vicious, continuous attacks that the other side will launch? who could best stand up and fight? Hillary Clinton has, as she has said, taken this incoming fire for 15 years or more. She’s been unfairly attacked by mainstream media and men who fear a strong intelligent woman like Ted Kennedy. Shes been accused of everything thing the media and obama camp can think of and yet she’s still the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. She’s proven after super Tuesday shes tougher than boot leather while having a human side. Those are assets that our candidate needs. Hillary Clinton has developed thick skin and the ability to remain calm in campaign combat. Yet, also knows how to listen to the American people. Qualifications? She’s a successful, liberal US Senator. won a Senate election that by fighting back and campaigning in the non-traditional places in NY. She went to conservative, Republican based northern rural areas and won them over with smart policies, substantive talk and the fact she simply listened! In that most unlikely of places, she won with 67% of the vote. 2006 she won re-election. We are convinced Hillary is strong where others, including Barack Obama, would be weak and inexperienced. She will fight the filth machine of the other side with vigor and calmness. She knows how to outmaneuver them. She’s a warrior. It’s a term seldom applied to women. Yet being a warrior is what she’s been from her Watergate committee staffing experience, through several terms as the First Lady of Arkansas, working on multiple corporate boards fighting for equal rights for minorities, middle class workers and women and during her years as First Lady of the US traveling the world. She learned first hand in those travels the foreign issues and realities. Hillary Clinton has made the personal contacts that are will be so valuable in the White House. She has consistently fought for the underdog and the American people. She was a warrior without anyone using the term. Hillary Clinton knows how to form coalitions on Capitial Hill to get the job done! She has, that ‘bad’ word this election cycle, ‘experience’. JFK, perhaps one of the most inspirational speakers in his day, had 8 years US Senate experience and had taken a run at the Vice Presidency in 1956. He knew government from the inside. JFK was not an outsider condemning the system and all those in it as Obama camp would like you to believe. If you want change in government you first have to learn how to operate from the inside to get the laws and policies changed. We learned this time and time again from JFK to Bill Clinton.
Steve
February 6th, 2008 5:10pmWell it shows you how much I know, my prediction was that come super Tuesday the democratic primary would be done and dusted, whilst the republicans would still be a 3 or 4 horse race. So if anyone fancies a punt read my prediction and bet the opposite way. I suspect that Clinton will edge the democratic nomination, and the role of the super delegates may just prove crucial.