Sam Stein at The Huffington Post clearly illustrates something I was thinking about last night while watching Sen. McCain’s “speech.”
Republicans this year can’t come up with their own message. They are grasping at straws and now, just directly biting what works for the Democrats.
I actually feel kinda bad for the old codger. He’s just trying to get with what the youth is doing, what with our space travel and our internet and our historical candidate. It’s kinda cute when you think about it.
It’s too bad for McCain that his public record clearly shows he isn’t a change candidate.
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Today is the last day of the democratic primary season.
Sen. Clinton is expected to “acknowledge” that Sen. Obama “has enough delegates to win” — anything not to concede. (EDIT: Clinton Campaign Chairman says reports that she’ll concede are 100% false… Told ya.)
My expectation is that she will “suspend” her campaign and fight in the credentials committee over Michigan (though it will make no difference to the outcome).
I think it is inevitable that she will be on the ticket, and I think I’ve come to terms with that. For one thing, I think it is the only way we can count on her working as hard as she can to get Sen. Obama elected. If she isn’t on the ticket I just don’t see her working as hard. I would expect her to lay low, hope Sen. Obama loses and run on the “I told you so” platform in 2012.
Maybe I’m just too cynical. And maybe the mainstream media will now pay some attention to Sen. McCain’s numerous screw-ups.
Regardless, I’ll be voting democrat for President. With or without Sen. Clinton on the ticket.
Now back to sitting her waiting on building inspectors to get to my apartment. They should have been here an hour ago.
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Sen. Clinton, please step down.
1. Primaries used to go until June. Your husband winning in California in June is irrelevant. Drawing a parallel between your decision to stay in this thing until the bitter end to the fact that we used to have primaries in June is nonsense. Races used to still happen in June. You’re talking about continuing to campaign to the supers in June, and wait for something bad to happen… Which brings me to #2.
2. It is in no way appropriate to bring up Robert Kennedy’s assassination as a reason for you to stay in this race. Biding your time for that “perfect storm” of a scandal from the Obama camp is one thing… but implying that oh I don’t know, OBAMA MIGHT GET SHOT or something is completely out of line.
Please save what is left of your family’s political legacy and step aside.
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Sen. Obama has secured an absolute majority of the pledged delegates under the current DNC rules.
Now comes the part where Camp Clinton further waves the popular vote flag until June. Continuous moving of the goalposts seems the order of the day over there. It sort of reminds me of another failed campaign by someone who is already President. Every day it is a different metric. More delegates from big states. More delegates from Blue states. More delegates from swing states. More votes from uneducated people. Every day a new metric that is usually quickly attained by the Obama campaign if not proved to be ridiculous by anyone who is paying attention. All she has left is the chance of a popular vote victory, and hoping that is enough to pull a very large margin of superdelegates to her column.
I definitely noticed her use of “top of the ticket” during her speech tonight. I think that was certainly hinting at the democrats having to give her something… It was almost an implication that the ticket is already decided and it is only a question of who is on top. We’ve been through this before though, with Sen. Clinton talking about making Sen. Obama her running mate on basically a “vote for me and get him too,” platform… Sen. Obama nipped that in the bud pointing out the fallacy in talking about who your VP candidate should be when you’re behind in the nomination!
Basically, Sen. Clinton’s only remaining shot at this is convincing an overwhelming majority of the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to swing her way based on a marginal popular vote lead including two states that may or may not have their full delegations seated and a likely convincing victory in one “state” that doesn’t even vote in the general election.
That’s a real strong case… if you’re living in Hillaryland.
Now, you can argue that a scenario where the popular vote winner doesn’t earn the nomination is exactly the same as the scenario I railed against in 2000 where the popular vote winner wasn’t elected President. I’d be inclined to agree in most cases. However in this case, Sen. Clinton’s popular vote lead thus far includes two states that were not a part of the campaign strategy for either candidate. In fact, it includes one state where Sen. Obama wasn’t even on the ballot! I don’t think you can look at that scenario and see a strong case for Sen. Clinton to sway the remaining superdelegates.
The question now is; Who will Sen. Obama pull out of his hat tomorrow to negate the news cycle of Sen. Clinton’s big win in Kentucky? Al Gore — I’m looking at you.
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Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City (Washington Post)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now.
The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak.
The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration. The sea of heads stretches for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watch from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the Willamette River. More hug the rails of the steel bridge that stretches across the water and crowds are even watching from jetties on the opposite shore.
seventy-five THOUSAND.
More coverage, video and a slide show over at Huffington Post
I wonder if there are any “hard working Americans, white Americans” in the crowd.
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