Clinton Rolls Out New Strategy: Ditches Primary, Moves Toward General Election
(CBS)
From CBS News’ Fernando Suarez:
CHARLESTON, W.VA. -- Hillary Clinton brushed off any thoughts that she will be dropping out of the race today, unveiling a newly polished message for voters: forget about the delegate math, because it “may be complicated.”
Her new strategy seems to be to divert attention away from the number of delegates she needs to capture the nomination and focus voters attention instead on the electoral votes needed to beat John McCain in November. She’s been winning key states necessary to have the electoral votes to beat John McCain, she argues, as well as picking up important groups of voters.
“The delegate math may be complicated, but the electoral math is easy,” she explained. “We need 270 electoral votes to win in November. It’s what we have to have.” Clinton went to say she’s appealing to a broad cross-section. “I’m winning Catholic voters, Hispanic voters, blue collar voters, and seniors, the kind of people that Senator McCain will be fighting for in the general election. Some call you swing voters, I call you Americans!”
Clinton’s message comes just days after squeaking out a victory in Indiana and being trounced in North Carolina. Even though there is mounting pressure and growing speculation that Clinton will drop out of the Democratic contest, she is showing no signs of an impending departure.
“My campaign is winning swing states,” Clinton said, pleading with voters. “That’s why I am campaigning hard in West Virginia. I know that according to the polls – and I take those with a grain of salt – I’m doing well here, but I want to do really well!”
Clinton knows that any chance she has of staying in the race is pulling off big wins in the remaining primaries. “West Virginia is a test. It’s a test for me and Senator Obama because for too long we have let West Virginia slip out of the Democratic column,” she said. “No Democratic president has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia.”
All signs seem to point to Obama as the eventual Democratic nominee, but so far that has not dissuaded Clinton from campaigning, as she holds events today in West Virginia, South Dakota, and Oregon before the end of the day.
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Just hold out for 4 yrs. Obama will lose to the GOP machine, no doubt about it! Wait it out...America will vote Clinton.
HILLARY 2012
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She has LOANED her campaign nearly $12 million dollars; at the moment there is not enough money in her campaign to repay her, if she quits then the donations stop, which means she has a problem recovering her millions.
However if she is clever she can continue and keep making requests for donations from foolish Clinton supporters.
Once enough gullible people have made donations and there is enough money to pay her back THEN suddenly she will announce that she is quitting for the good of the Party !
Does that make sense to you Clinton supporters?
Now go to her website immediately and pay back her loans!
If you are wondering why the press isn''t reporting on this, it is because Hillary Clinton successfully filed a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) so the US press cannot report on the proceedings of the case.
They are ''throwing the kitchen sink'' and prolonging the race at all costs to save their own skin, not yours.
GO OBAMA 2008
CHECK IT OUT HERE:
http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?%2Fen%2Fstory-details%2Ftrial_date_to_be_set_in_paul_vs_clinton_on_february_21_2008%2F
Trial date to be set in Paul vs. Clinton on February 21, 2008.
Additional information:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51664
If you are wondering why the press isn''t reporting on this, it is because Hillary Clinton successfully filed a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) so the US press cannot report on the proceedings of the case.
They are ''throwing the kitchen sink'' and prolonging the race at all costs to save their own skin, not yours.
GO OBAMA 2008
CHECK IT OUT HERE:
http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?%2Fen%2Fstory-details%2Ftrial_date_to_be_set_in_paul_vs_clinton_on_february_21_2008%2F
Trial date to be set in Paul vs. Clinton on February 21, 2008.
Additional information:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51664
If you are wondering why the press isn''t reporting on this, it is because Hillary Clinton successfully filed a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) so the US press cannot report on the proceedings of the case.
They are ''throwing the kitchen sink'' and prolonging the race at all costs to save their own skin, not yours.
GO OBAMA 2008
CHECK IT OUT HERE:
http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?%2Fen%2Fstory-details%2Ftrial_date_to_be_set_in_paul_vs_clinton_on_february_21_2008%2F
Trial date to be set in Paul vs. Clinton on February 21, 2008.
Additional information:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51664
He did pretty good there too.
Then it was all about popular vote.
Obama won the popular vote
Then it was NC/Indiana -
OK, yea, he pretty much won those too. Now Hillary Clinton and her idiot advisors and supporters are making an attempt to raise the Obama bar to West Virginia and Kentucky%u2026White Voters? As if we got here with only the support of African Americans.Please, give me a break. Hillary and her supporters are appearing more and more like the joke of the day. Remember %u201CThe Emperor With No Clothes%u201D.
... or something else equally disillusional, unrelated and random.
If the nomination is swiped from Sen. Clinton, Obama will crash and burn in November and the Democratic Party will be a train wreck because of him. Radical left wing George McGovern lost every single state except one state in the general election. Obama, another radical left wing liberal, will repeat that exact debacle which superdelegates were created to prevent.
Sen. Hillary Clinton is the best experienced, qualified candidate to debate,fight and win against McCain.
ABC reported she''s $10 million in debt. Internally, Clintons supporters have whispered it''s really $20+ million in debt.
It ain''t over until every primary is complete, and then....
Democrats had better tread carefully. The @sinine behavior of Tim Russert and Obama supporters is enough for me to vote for McCain.
- by marthainaz May 8, 2008 4:51 PM EDT
- Hillary Clinton likes to make up her own rules as she goes along. We are not in a general election yet so those rules are not in play. She''s very good at pointing out rules she likes but not good at all at following those she dislikes. For her to assume that her backers will not support Obama tells me that she will not encourage them too. With her direction, they will do as she bids. Unfortunately I see more of Bush in her every day. Spoiled and petulant.
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