Campaign Follies.

Gee, Nedra, what's with the title? The superdelegates aren't in any big hurry to coronate Obama, by the way.

The race is still essentially a tie.

The media (and the GOP) does NOT want a brokered convention.
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More empty rhetoric comes from an empty suit regarding the American Axle strike.

Is

Hillary Clinton going to fight to the finish because she believes she has a better shot against John McCain in November, or is she committing a scorched earth policy of denying the Audacity of Hype the nomination he so deserves?

Instead of you trying to figure it out for yourself, let Chris Matthews and his panel tell you what to think:




Naturally they shit all over Hillary Clinton.

Does Anybody

want to argue NOW John Edwards wasn't forced out of the campaign?

Question: Do you still think the Democratic race can be resolved before the convention?


Reid: Easy.

Q: How is that?

Reid: It will be done.

Q: It just will?

Reid: Yep.

Q: Magically?

Reid: No, it will be done. I had a conversation with Governor Dean (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) today. Things are being done.

Let it play out, Harry, and maybe both of the remaining candidates will withdraw.

We are going to lose with either one; the only question is by how much with which candidate.

Well, Why DO

you think the "conservatives" were so in love with Obama? Why DO you think Republicans and independents have been doing so much crossover voting in the primaries and caucuses?

As I've mentioned previously, the only difference between this year and 1972's dirty tricks by Nixon is the media nowadays is in the tank for the GOP.

Since few Democratic voters—theoretically—should be affected by anything this cabal has to say, its impact on the nominating process has been, at best, indirect. But the right's talkers have helped to shape the way the election is covered. And even if they've only affected the margins, it's precisely those margins—in states like Missouri, or in district delegate fights, or in the narrowing popular-vote contest—that matter. Perhaps the more important point for Democrats is why these drum beaters have been so universally on the same beat.

You think so? I've been saying this for months, but the pundits and bloggers don't read me, preferring as they do the Big Blogs which don't call out the ruse.

The right-wing pundits started shifting their "support" for Obama when it looked like he was going to get the nomination and then put up trial balloon smears and stories with some basis in fact to see how it affected the race.

As I've said repeatedly, because neither of the remaining Democratic candidates will get the majority of delegates needed for the nomination, for the sake of the party's unity, both candidates should be jettisoned in favor of somebody far better to go up against McCain in the fall.

The GOP pundits want a bloodbath, no doubt, so that whoever wins the nomination will be severely weakened in the general.

It makes one wonder what would have happened if Edwards hadn't dropped out. I suppose he still would have been ignored.

James Wolcott writes a bit about this article, when in fact it should be OBVIOUS TO ALL WHO HAVE PAID ATTENTION TO THIS CAMPAIGN WHAT WAS UP.

You don't need to have been around during the Nixon years to understand it, but it helps to have a frame of reference.

Is Gene Lyons

ever right:

Some, including respected friends such as Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, were calling for Hillary Clinton to withdraw even before her big Game 5 wins in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. Alter’s reasoning was that there was no way she could catch up in the delegate count; hence, she was only hurting Democrats by staying in the race. The problem is that Obama appears equally unlikely to win enough elected delegates to win the contest outright.

A lead’s only a lead, sports fans, until the final out.

Despite Clinton being behind in the delegate count now, I do expect her to be the nominee because of her having lined up many key supporters early on.

My hope is neither becomes the nominee because of their weaknesses in the fall campaign, and Democrats have to pick somebody else.

John McCain Shill

Tim Russert talks about last night's results, saying in effect Hillary is going to have to find a way to deny Obama the nomination.

I don't think either one is going to get it with the pledged delegates alone:

Maybe

if race does become the issue in the Democratic primaries, Obama and Clinton will knock each other out of the race and a real change candidate, John Edwards, will become president over corporate America's dead body.