By Brendan Loy
Hahahaha:
With an eleven state winning streak coming out of February, Senator Obama is riding a surge of momentum that has enabled him to pour unprecedented resources into Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. ...
If he cannot win all of these states with all this effort, there’s a problem.
Should Senator Obama fail to score decisive victories with all of the resources and effort he is bringing to bear, the message will be clear:
Democrats, the majority of whom have favored Hillary in the primary contests held to date, have their doubts about Senator Obama and are having second thoughts about him as a prospective standard-bearer.
LOL!! So Hillary can "win" on March 4 just by picking off one state from Obama?? And here y'all thought I was kidding when I said Rhode Island is the new firewall!
Oh, and as for the notion that "the majority of [Democrats] have favored Hillary in the primary contests held to date" ... that is about the most tortured piece of transparently bogus political spin I've ever heard in my life. It strings together, into a logically incoherent whole, the following four pieces of nonsensical Clintonian garbage, each of which is utterly untenable on its own:
1) Caucuses shouldn't count at all (not just "caucuses should count less than primaries" -- this goes much further than that, suggesting that the preferences of individual voters who happen to live in caucus states do not matter at all);
2) Michigan and Florida should count, even though the party definitively stripped those states of their influence for violating the rules, and even though all the candidates agreed in advance not to contest those states, and even though Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and even though, according to Hillary, caucuses states which followed the rules, and which both candidates did campaign in, shouldn't count (see above) -- I mean, just think about this: after signing a pledge to the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada not to campaign in Florida and Michigan, she is now arguing that Iowa and Nevada don't matter, while Florida and Michigan do;
3) Independent and Republican voters don't matter, and their votes should be retroactively subtracted from the candidates' actual vote totals based on exit-poll estimates (more on that below), even though the local Democratic parties in many states consciously and deliberately choose to allow them to vote in Democratic primaries, and all candidates actively court their votes, and you can't win a general election without their support; and
4) Exit polls are completely accurate and can be fairly used to definitively assess -- for purposes of determining the rightful nominee -- candidates' relative strength among "Democrats" and "non-Democrats" (even though registered Democrats often self-identify as indepedents, and vice versa, so even if the exit polls were 100% statistically accurate, they'd still be wrong).
The absolute lunacy of this Hillaryland spin is beyond staggering. At this point, there are just no words for it. These people are living in an alternate universe. The nonsense they put out seriously has no relation whatsoever to reality. It is... Just. F***ing. Ridiculous.
P.S. By the end of this campaign, I wouldn't be surprised if Team Clinton is putting out press releases touting the fact that Hillary Clinton has won 100% of the vote among voters who voted for Hillary Cilnton. That's how circular and self-serving their spin is becoming. It's like they say, "Let's see what logically incoherent combination of criteria we can concoct to prove that Hillary's winning the nomination." At what point will they realize it's time to give up? At what point will the empress finally recognize that she has no clothes?
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