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February 12, 2008 8:59 AM

Clinton Campaign Braces For Losses Tonight

(CBS)
From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

On primary day in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton will make last-minute visits to polling places, hoping news coverage of her stops will trigger undecided voters to turn out.

As is custom on election days, while Clinton makes visits to strategic locations in the area, her senior staff sits in what they call the “boiler room” to await results and to get information from staff on the ground at polling locations. This information will dictate part of Clinton’s schedule this morning. She will oftentimes make phone calls into local radio shows or stand on street corners with supporters if her advisors think she’s in a close contest in a particular area.

However, despite her efforts today, a source close to the campaign is downplaying expectations, telling CBS News that “we will lose all three (contests) today, probably by wide margins.”

“We are still actively working them because we feel like there are opportunities to pick up delegates," the source said, pointing out that since delegates are allocated proportionally, she can still pick up delegates even if she loses statewide.

"There are several districts in Virginia, for example, that we have targeted because they have odd number delegates and we think we have some opportunities to pick up the one. So, while we expect to lose we’re focused on the delegate math.”

Another reason why today’s contests will prove difficult for Clinton, particularly in Maryland and D.C., is because of the large African-American population, a group that has been voting for Obama in large numbers.

On the other hand, Clinton’s strongest minority support comes from Hispanic voters, a group that helped her win in states like California and Arizona.

Because of her strength with Hispanics, she will head to Texas later this afternoon with stops at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Clinton is expected to campaign in one of the the nation's most southern cities, near the Mexican border, tomorrow morning.

Her campaign is calling Texas “the big one” referring to the large number of delegates at stake there on Mar. 4.

Clinton will “start campaigning hard” in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to the campaign source,

“We’ve made it pretty clear all along that Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania were going to be important states for us and states where we think we’ll do well.”
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by rfcrtl February 12, 2008 11:03 AM PST
GO HILLARY!
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by crywolf08 February 12, 2008 11:46 AM PST
As much as I wanted to believe the team of CHANGE as other politician had use in the past I simply dont buy it. We heard it for hundred of years and look where it takes us inflation, recession and depression. The last thing I dont want to see when people gamble their trust is going back to the stone age. I really prefer people who had the EXPERIENCE of improving the economy as Bill Clinton did during his time. The surplus he had created was incredible. Real Estates and jobs was up hundred fold during that time and foreclusure and unemployment was the lowest in many years. Lets vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton we will never be wrong to know Bill will guide her to do whats right to make the economy prosper.
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by formlessness-2009 February 12, 2008 12:30 PM PST
How is Hillary Clinton more experienced? I have not heard any specifics to attest how she would unite us all as Americans. How is she more electable? Common sense indicates that she isn''t more electable than Obama, every poll shows him defeating McCain while none show Hillary vesting him. I know for a fact that she is as reviled on the right as Bush Jr. is on the left. So how can Hillary claim she is better qualified than Obama? She is better qualified at being divisive and if that''s what I were looking for in a President I may have voted for her. However what I believe our country needs at this moment is an inspirational leader who can effectively bridge the partisan divide to bring about actual change. That''s called Compromise and if anyone remembers govenment class from high school it''s one of the first words you learn. Hillary Clinton doesn''t compromise, she calculates. Hillary has proven that she can''t follow through on health care, she tried before and failed miserably. Giving her the presidency wouldn''t change that.
Electability is Everything and Hillary just doesn''t have it. She''s bracing for today''s losses, well she should brace for more than that, because Obama is for real.
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by cmp271 February 12, 2008 12:51 PM PST
Clinton only goes to those districts where there are people who may vote for her and get her delgates, otherwise she wouldn''t bother. what about the rest of the people, or is it just the delegates you care about-or money???
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by February 12, 2008 1:00 PM PST
Hillary has unique experience. Her time as First Lady was a real lesson builder for her. She was on the inside of the White House with a husband who recognized her keen intelligence and sought her advice. Then there is that undeniable time in the U.S. Senate, plus years and years in Arkansas as a First Lady. Underplaying her experience is obviously the blatant effort of an Obama partisan...understandable but still not factual.
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by pepperp1 February 12, 2008 1:01 PM PST
Posted by cmp271 at 12:51 PM : Feb 12, 2008
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What a inane posting where would you go its a contest...
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by pepperp1 February 12, 2008 1:03 PM PST
There''s more than a little truth here. It seems that Barack Obama can win blacks and that he can win whites; where he has trouble, electorally speaking, is winning blacks and whites.

La Times
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by hillaryin08 February 12, 2008 1:06 PM PST
aaaaahhhhh (splash) That one I will call Hillary.

(flush) By By Hillary..........
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by pepperp1 February 12, 2008 1:07 PM PST
Senate Moves to Shield Telecoms on Eavesdropping


AND IF THIS happens the Dem party better brace for a massive massive backlash and blaming it on the Republicans will not work...this will be a betrayal not just a failure and any Dem passing this bill with the immunity is at risk to the Huff Post left fringe wing on the Dem party
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by hillaryin08 February 12, 2008 1:08 PM PST
aaaaahhhhh (splash) That one I will call Hillary.

(flush) By By Hillary..........
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by pepperp1 February 12, 2008 1:17 PM PST
The final tally was 31-67; crossing over to vote nay were Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Evan Bayh (D-IA), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Herb Kohl (D-WI), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Tom Carper (D-DE), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Jim Webb (D-VA), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Kent Conrad (D-ND), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). Update: Here''s the official tally.

Voted to give Telcoms retroactive immunity..............so Dem Party brace for a massive loss in Nov this is another betrayal
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by stephanienym February 12, 2008 1:18 PM PST
formlessness
Give me a break! Hillary has so much more experience than Obama! Do your homework before making such a stupid comment, really you are embarrassing yourself! Hillary is the only person who can beat McCain. The truth is the Repuks will chew Obama up and spit him out. At a time of war this country wants to live a fairy tale and elect someone whose best answer to International experience is going to school abroad for 4 years...in the 4th grade...Again, give me a break! Barack spent 4 or 5 years lecturing for a living...He is a bunch of trained and rehearsed rhetoric and unfortunately this country is so confused as to what is real and what is fluff that everyone ends up peeing all over themselves over a bunch of I have a dream ***! It%u2019s no wonder Bush was re-elected this country doesn%u2019t have a clue! Hillary%u2019s biggest problem and downfall is that she can%u2019t disagree or call Barack out on the carpet without a bunch of whining hypocrites pulling out the racist card and making her look like she is attacking his color. Once again, give me a break! She has done more for the black community than any white person ever has and all black people can do is turn their back on her and vote for their %u201Ccolor%u201D instead%u2026I%u2019m disgusted %u2026
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by February 12, 2008 1:41 PM PST
hopetrumps, I agree with you whole-heartedly!
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by notopennshut February 12, 2008 1:42 PM PST
Don''t claim to know how the super delegate works, but from the perspective of an everyday american, it would seem logical that the person who wins the MOST state should get the nomination. This shows that the candidate has the most across the board support from the WHOLE country, rather than just a handful of states, even if that state has a larger population. Why penalize a small state. Super delegates should look at the WHOLE map of the USA and determine who has the most areas covered in their win column. It is not just NY or CA or TX that is important. We who live in Idaho or Delaware should matter just as much, and we look forward to a president for ALL rather than just for a few so-called "important" states.
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by hillaryin08 February 12, 2008 1:48 PM PST
The Clintonistas are going to try and steel the election through the secret delagates. We cannot let them do it.
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by shutupnvote February 12, 2008 2:38 PM PST
From TPM


A new poll of Wisconsin by Public Policy Polling (D) gives Barack Obama a healthy lead for next week''s primary. Obama has 50% support among likely Democratic primary voters, compared to Hillary Clinton''s 39%.

The two are in a dead heat among core Democrats, with Obama at 46% to Hillary''s 44%.










However, Obama''s lead is greatly extended by the support of independents and Republicans, who give him a better than 2-1 margin in this open-primary state.



Very helpful in Nov Im sure LOL
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by vet_sk February 12, 2008 2:49 PM PST
Why are people saying Hillary has all this experience when Obama has more elected experience then she does.
How often did you see Hillary after her disasterous attempt at health care in 1993. Almost never - and she counts that as experiece. Don''t think so.

And then she sits on the Senate Foreign Intelligence Com but then admitted she did not read the NIE before voting for the war in Iraq which said that Iraq WMDs were highly overrater or non-existent. That''s experience I don''t want.
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by shutupnvote February 12, 2008 2:51 PM PST
Posted by hopetrumps at 01:25 PM : Feb 12, 2008
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NO NO not the People, Democrats are falling for their own shell game and Obama has is doing nothing that was not done in 06 by Alexrod Obamas camping manager the Rove of the Dem Party in Mass 06 during the election of Gov. Patrick and he is using the beltway press just as skillfully using the Social Liberal Press NewsWeek-WAPO-MSNBC-NBC as the attack dog surrogates...and you people are falling for it.

You Party appears incapable of getting out of your own way and nominating someone with the substance to be President

If Obama is the nominee McCain will win in Nov of this there is no doubt.
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by shutupnvote February 12, 2008 2:51 PM PST
Posted by hopetrumps at 01:25 PM : Feb 12, 2008
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NO NO not the People, Democrats are falling for their own shell game and Obama has is doing nothing that was not done in 06 by Alexrod Obamas camping manager the Rove of the Dem Party in Mass 06 during the election of Gov. Patrick and he is using the beltway press just as skillfully using the Social Liberal Press NewsWeek-WAPO-MSNBC-NBC as the attack dog surrogates...and you people are falling for it.

You Party appears incapable of getting out of your own way and nominating someone with the substance to be President

If Obama is the nominee McCain will win in Nov of this there is no doubt.
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by shutupnvote February 12, 2008 2:58 PM PST
The Clintonistas are going to try and steel the election through the secret delagates. We cannot let them do it.


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Its actually the reverse Millions of Hillary Voters have been intentionally disenfranchised by the Dean DNC Party Elites so they could enthrone their Heir JFK reincarnated heir and social justice as their burning Cause.. this is just the weekly natsy surrogate sound bite Obama spin. and trust me hes got 60 Mil in the bank to buy those delegates off and we know how well that works....

%u2026%u2026%u2026..and it will hand the election and many down stream elections to McCain

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by aartcom February 12, 2008 3:02 PM PST
cannot we see the truth. clinton will do anything for HER victory. anything. can we trust and believe otherwise. for clinton supporters this question. if obama is most popular among voters and primary states won, why cannot clinton gracefully concede defeat. perhaps lead in the senate or an administration post. she is valuable. after all, their policies are not much different. give the presidency to the one who inspires all, not to the one who aspires power. the one who inspires all is obama. clinton aspires power. obama as president is a victory for all americans. at this time of age, we need a fresh start, not a continued clinton dynasty which will bring much of the same division in progress as we see now in government under bush. think it through. obama can unite the democrats. the rebublicans will be muted, and the country will change for the better. the answer and solution is obvious. history is in the making. now. this moment. elect obama. and feel better doing so. if not now, tomorrow.
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by aeasus February 12, 2008 3:06 PM PST
Iran-contra..mena airport...google it!
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by nicksp2 February 12, 2008 3:10 PM PST
Don''t you guys get it? Wake up and smell the republican rat!!! RobertBluey director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. voted for Obama today and here''s why:
It%u2019s partly for this reason that I decided to cast my vote for Barack Obama today. Although national polls give Obama a small advantage over John McCain in the general election, I firmly believe that McCain would handily defeat the inexperienced Obama. Secondly, I fear what the Clinton attack machine would do to McCain. Their ferocity would be worse than George W. Bush%u2019s ugly attacks in 2000. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows how much I dislike negative campaigning, and a Clinton-McCain matchup would be just that.

Because my vote for Obama will likely be ridiculed by many friends on the right, I want to explain exactly why I chose to cross party lines to back the Democrat senator from Illinois.
1) Electability. According to Real Clear Politics, McCain would beat Clinton by 1.2 percentage points. McCain, however, loses to Obama by 3.7 percentage points using the same polling average. Despite what these polls indicate today, I predict the numbers would flip once Democrats pick a nominee.



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by cpaide February 12, 2008 3:15 PM PST
billary are done; stick them with a fork.

too ugly and old to make it through the election and then serve effectively--like a female ronald reagan.
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by user168-2009 February 12, 2008 3:20 PM PST
To the Clintons:

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time"!

YOU SHALT NOT FOOL AMERICA''S YOUTH! THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WE''VE BEEN WAITING FOR.



GO! YOUNG ADULTS, VOTE FOR YOUR DREAM! VOTE FOR WISDOM, COMPASSION, AND COURAGE! VOTE OBAMA!

%u201CLIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.%u201D

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by pacific_c February 12, 2008 3:22 PM PST
I dare everyone to read this link with an open mind. womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.html

Excerpt. "Time is short & the contest tightening. We need to rise in furious energy%u2014as we did when Anita Hill was so vilely treated in the U.S. Senate, as we did when Rosie Jiminez was butchered by an illegal abortion, as we did & do for women globally who are condemned for trying to break through. We need to win, this time. Goodbye to supporting HRC tepidly, with ambivalent caveats & apologetic smiles. Time to volunteer, make phone calls, send emails, donate money, argue, rally, march, shout, vote. I support Hillary Rodham because she%u2019s the best qualified of all candidates running in both parties. I support her because her progressive politics are as strong as her proven ability to withstand what will be a massive right-wing assault in the general election. I support her because she knows how to get us out of Iraq. I support her because she%u2019s refreshingly thoughtful, & I%u2019m bloodied from eight years of a jolly %u201Cuniter%u201D with ejaculatory politics. I needn%u2019t agree with her on every point. I agree with the 97 percent of her positions that are identical with Obama%u2019s%u2014& the few where hers are both more practical & to the left of his (like health care). I support her because she%u2019s already made history as a fine senator, because I believe she will continue to make history not as the first US woman president, but as a great US president."
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by aartcom February 12, 2008 3:24 PM PST
cbs. why ignore my comment. and post others. i once believed you were the best source of news and opinion.
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by Martha Z February 12, 2008 3:31 PM PST
That so called "source" is probably a bad apple that should be taken out of her team. She does not need that kind of negative attitude around her!
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by irliberal February 12, 2008 3:33 PM PST
GO HILLARY 2008! WOOHOO!!!
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by b-easy63 February 12, 2008 3:37 PM PST
GO HILLARY 2008! WOOHOO!!!

Posted by IRLiberal at 03:33 PM : Feb 12, 2008

Yes, GO HILARY!!! FAR FAR AWAY!!! PLEASE MOVE AT WARP SPEED AND DON''T STOP TIL'' YOU''RE IN 2010!!! wHOOOO hOOOOOOO!!!!!
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by jonsid2 February 12, 2008 3:39 PM PST
If you go to CNN and try to post something against Clinton it most likely will get rejected. They have a policy of "moderating" posts, and if they don''t like your post it won''t be shown. I posted the following and they haven''t posted it:
Deny, deny, deny. This woman is full of denials. She says she''''s winning but the facts are she''''s losing. She lends her campaign money and her top manager steps down for "personal" reasons and then she says she''''s not in trouble. Asked if old wounds might be reopened and she says "That''''s not going to happen". She wants so badly for things to go her way; she must have been a very spoiled child. She''''s not in this for the good of the country, she''''s in it just to win and get into the history books. The Republicans will chew her up and spit her out. She''''s carrying more baggage than a Greyhound bus. Obama''s our man!
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by user168-2009 February 12, 2008 3:53 PM PST
Hillbilly Dumpty sat on a vole.
Hillbilly Dumpty had a great fall.
All the Maggie Williams "REMOVED FILES"
Couldn''t put Hillbilly together again.
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by Marie Zarankevich February 12, 2008 4:03 PM PST
crywolf11 - I can''t believe what I just read. You want Hillary in the White House because that way we''d have Bill back in there???? SHE''s running for president, not him, in case you did not notice!! ***
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by user168-2009 February 12, 2008 4:35 PM PST
Hillbilly Dumpty sat on a vole.
Hillbilly Dumpty had a great fall.
All the Maggie Williams REMOVED FILES
Couldn''t put Hillbilly together again.

"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"

Hillary, what is that you SOOO worry about?

Hillary, I truly hope what you are worrying about are the men, women, and children being slaughtered, dying, and suffering in that on-going bloody war you eagerly supported.

"... How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?..."

WHY MUST OTHERS DIE SO YOU SHOULD LIVE?

Hillary, to love means wanting it to live!

"HELL is This Thing called WAR!"

"ONLY THE DEAD HAVE SEEN THE END OF WAR." Not Hillary?

Oh where, oh where were my Hillary phony tears when I needed thou most???

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