2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

something about "Considering he's already been in a few small-scale scandals since primary season began it seems unlikely that four years of intense scrutiny won't... lol bubba"

MSNBC CALL VIRGINA FOR OBAMA BASED ON EXIT POLLS! BIG WIN!

hmmm so is CNN - that means the exit poll margins must be ridiculous

lol hueg

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/images/fox-demexitpolls-big.jpg

she purdy

ouch

so this is coming down to texas and penn, right? I mean, does HRC even stand a chance winning that few states in the primaries? where is obama polling everywhere else?

He's projected to win Wisconsin and Hawaii handily - Hillary's banking on Ohio, TX, and Pennsylvania but assuming that she'll maintain her leads in those states with this much momentum and money behind Obama seems dubious. It will come down to how much of the party leadership thinks she MUST win over Obama because she presents a better chance in the GE - but I don't think they're going to draw that conclusion. They'd be foolish to step in front of Obama's speeding train at that point...

lol clinton spin: we knew we werent going to win - wtf is that supposed to even mean?

uncle mo

that post was kinda a mess - what I mean is if it comes down to the superdelegates granting a decisive majority, their going to have to have overridingly powerful institutional and electoral reasons to back Hillary over Obama, and at this point I don't think they do. The party is going to come to the realization that the Clinton's national political capital is spent, and that the better option for the party is to get behind the dynamic populist that has a better shot at beating McCain. Hillary is running out of arguments for why she should get the nomination (minor policy differences on healthcare and delusionally self-serving "I'm more experienced!" talking points aren't gonna cut it.)

x-post

I didn't even want your stupid primary!

Hassan Nemazee, another national finance chairman for Mrs. Clinton, said he was also telling his network of allies not to get caught up in the headlines about Obama

“I’m telling donors and supporters: Don’t be overly concerned about what goes on in the remainder of the month of February because these are not states teed up well for us,” Mr. Nemazee said.

superdelegates aside I think that if obama takes either texas or ohio then he's going to be so far ahead in pledged delegates that hillary is going to be out, or at least, it would make sense for her to bow out. but we'll see.

yeah Hillary's mounting excuses sound like she's dismissing the electorate ("oh those negros don't matter, neither does THAT state cuz we won't win it in the GE, by the way the only states that do matter are the ones where I'm polling ahead even though I may not win them, etc.") That shit is not gonna play well - no one wants to back a loser.

otoh I honestly can't conceive of Hillary bowing out gracefully. I predict some kind of scary meltdown/lashing out.

"Nothing to see here; those states aren't gonna vote for us, so they obviously do not matter, duh." xposts

I'm ashamed she won my state but proud Obama won my district

(and I have no doubt Obama would sweep CA in the GE)

McCain/Clinton '08

i'm passing up an opportunity to hear obama speak in 10 minutes. instead, i will take a nap. and then eat tacos.

You know you wanna

xp

i have no doubt obama would sweep CA if the election were this week rather than last

Tacos 1, Obama 0.

Clinton/Lieberman 08

Lieberman/Sharpton 12

tacos/obama 08

i'd prefer tacos to be on the other side of the ticket, but yeah.

oh man i want tacos

Hassan Nemazee, another national finance chairman for Mrs. Clinton HRC, said he was also telling his network of allies not to get caught up in the headlines about Obama

“I’m telling donors and supporters: Don’t be overly concerned about what goes on in the remainder of the month of February because these are not states teed up well for us,” Mr. Nemazee said

Um, let's try that again:

Hassan Nemazee, another national finance chairman for Mrs. Clinton Giuliani, said he was also telling his network of allies not to get caught up in the headlines about Obama

“I’m telling donors and supporters: Don’t be overly concerned about what goes on in the remainder of the month of February because these are not states teed up well for us,” Mr. Nemazee said

FOR PRESIDENT xxp

yeah gOOblar said that already

oh i see what you did

DC 4 OBAMA SUPRISE!

"tacos/obama 08"

Obama/Richardson 08!

i went into the booth tonight planning to vote tacos but I wound up picking the special, calabacitas con puerca, instead

an obama/tacos ticket could not possibly lose

this election will be decided by cilantro.

is america ready for a spicy president

cilantro is very controversial

obama > chimichangas > tacos

maybe

hillary is already in texas? seems desperate. is she gonna live there until the primary?

tacos> obama > cilantro> chimichangas

do you guys like tacos? I do!

TACOS FOR CHANGE

chimichangas are clearly the john edwards of this debate here

hey guys...TACOS ON A PLANE!