State of the race
May 7th, 2008I honestly didn’t expect such an apparent shift in the race.
Obama’s solid win in North Carolina and Clinton’s squeaker in Indiana has completely changed the media’s narrative of the race. It’s now over and Obama is the presumptive nominee.
I expected a split-decision to just keep the race going but after last night…
- Clinton stands no chance of getting ahead in the popular vote - even if you count the discounted Michigan and Florida votes
- News hit that Clinton’s campaign is broke and she loaned her campaign another 6.4 million in the past month. Without a big win, there was no fundraising bump.
- Obama is now 200 delegates away from locking the nomination
The media has run out of possible scenarios where the dynamics of the race can change. It can be said that they gave Clinton every chance to turn this around but it hasn’t happened.
I still don’t think she’ll drop out until it’s officially over. Obama is now just 15 Super Delegates short of catching Clinton in Super Delegate votes - the only measure in which she was ahead.
I had a few strips knocking Clinton’s gas-tax holiday nonsense and her Bush-like refusal to listen to experts but I just can’t kick her when she’s down. She’s run a horrible, mean-spirited and just plain nasty campaign but more than anything, it’s just sad. She sacrificed every principle to be President - she made every ugly compromise for political viability from Bush’s blank check for war to McCain’s gas-tax holiday and every pander in between - and in the end, it was for nothing.
– Steve
Stumble it!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I wish you had used the strips you have.
I don’t call that “kicking her when she’s down”…rather, I call it “calling a spade a spade”. And doing so highlights something we desperately need to in this country –how close someone can still get to being Presidential nominee despite the fact that they have outright lied to the faces of American voters, ran a campaign completely bereft of principle (how can you say she’s “sacrificed every principle”, when her campaign has made it pretty clear she had no principles to begin with?), attempted to tell the American people what she thought they wanted to hear without espousing any beliefs of her own or taking theirs to heart, changing her message to suit whenever she felt it might gett votes, and pandered to everyone from superdelegates to special interests.
The fact that a person like this could come this close should be a horribly frightening thought for all of us, whether we be Democrats, Republicans, or (like myself) Independents, anyone who has a vote and values it dearlye. Bush was a bad enough choice; we all know that once in office, he stopped listening to the American people. And yet, someone who has plainly proved they have the exact same problem came within inches of their party’s nomination for the 2008 election. We should be scared, and that fear ought to lead us to enough anger to say “Enough is enough. We won’t let this happen ever again.”
May 10th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I disagree - I think she needs kicking when she’s down. It’s what she would do.
She hasn’t formally given up yet.