Obama '08?

Rice is denying she has any interest. Developing...

Marcos has spoken! Go away Hillary! Go away mad. But just GO AWAY!

This thing is over
by kos
Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:53:03 AM PDT

Column writing is really a different beast than blogging. It has serious constraints in space and timing that don't exist in the world of instant bloggy publishing. What the medium lacks in flexibility, however, it makes up by forcing me to distill arguments I make over thousands of words and weeks of posting into one tight, clean, and unified piece.

A good example is my latest column for Newsweek, examining what's left of the Clinton campaign, and the effect it's had on the primary to date.

Hillary Clinton has proved during the past few months that she is a fighter, that she is tenacious, and that she is in the race to win. There's just one problem. She's already lost.

No matter how you define victory, Barack Obama holds an insurmountable lead in the race to earn the Democratic nomination. He leads in the one metric that matters most: the pledged delegates chosen directly by Democratic voters. But he also leads in the popular vote, the number of states won and money raised. Still, Obama's advantages aren't large enough to allow him an outright victory. He needs the 20 percent of party delegates who aren't bound to a candidate. It's with these superdelegates that Clinton has staked her ephemeral chances.

Clinton's near-lone chance of victory rests with a coup by superdelegate, persuading enough of them to overcome the primary voters' preference [...]

Clinton's best-case scenario for victory requires sundering her own party. It is an inherently divisive strategy, but she doesn't appear to care. For Clinton, all's fair in pursuit of victory?-even destroying her party from within. Her campaign has adopted a bizarre "insult-40-states strategy," which has belittled states small, liberal and Red. Apparently, the only states that matter are the ones she coincidentally happens to win.

But it's not all bad.

Yet while the Beltway establishment frets about the alleged damage this drawn-out contest is doing to the Democratic Party, in reality, it's been an almost unalloyed good.

For one, the frenzied organizing around the country has proved a catalyst for dramatic party building in states that had been Democratically dormant. State after state has reported record turnout, and thousands of new Democrats are registering in advance of each contest. In upcoming Pennsylvania, Democrats have gained a net 200,000 registered voters over Republicans this year; that number is 105,000 in North Carolina.

The party can now take advantage of the infrastructure both campaigns leave behind. The unprecedented level of participation and organization not only reinforces Blue states, it improves Democratic odds in traditional swing states. In fact, the tide threatens to make GOP stalwarts like Texas up for grabs this fall.

The reverberations are being felt far beyond the race for the White House. Democrats are poised to make massive gains at the congressional and local levels for a second consecutive election cycle. They've already started: in a March 8 House special election, Obama volunteers helped Democrats capture the solidly conservative Illinois congressional seat formerly held by Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Of course, the primary calendar is drying up, and most of that "unalloyed good" has run its course. This thing doesn't need to drag out any longer. As I mention in the column, I won't call on Clinton to quit the race because it would be stupid to do so. It's her call to make when she's good and ready to make that call.

But aside from that, it is time for the super delegates to put this thing to bed. We're all itching to take on McCain, so let's get the main show started.

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mysteryman wrote:

Roxxxanne wrote:
Back to Obama 08

Obama has another super delegate, a state senator from Wyoming.

MSNBC is reporting that Condaleeza Rice is "interested" in the VP job.

So now you get to decide how a conversation flows?
Who gave you that power?

Being a dominant female gave me that power, young man.

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Roxxxanne wrote:

mysteryman wrote:
Roxxxanne wrote:
Back to Obama 08

Obama has another super delegate, a state senator from Wyoming.

MSNBC is reporting that Condaleeza Rice is "interested" in the VP job.

So now you get to decide how a conversation flows?
Who gave you that power?

Being a dominant female gave me that power, young man.

I have no idea if your a "dominant female" or not.
I have neve been into s & m or bondage like you apparently are.

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Domination goes far beyond your ignorant view of sexuality, you little ****. Smile

Seriously though, you white guys think that your male privilege gives you the authority to do anything including hijacking threads. So typical.

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The Rice rumor which her spokesperson denies.

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GOP strategist: Condi Rice 'actively campaigning' to be VP
David Edwards and Chris Tackett
Published: Sunday April 6, 2008

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On ABC's This Week, Republican strategist Dan Senor said that Condoleezza Rice has been actively campaigning to be John McCain's pick for Vice President.

Speaking of possible Vice President options for McCain, Senor said, "Condi Rice is an option. Tom Ridge is an option. Although, I think he'd have problems at the convention. Mitt Romney is an option. Condoleezza Rice has been actively campaigning for this. There's this ritual in Washington, The Americans for Tax Reform which is headed by Grover Norquist, holds a weekly meeting of conservative leaders, about 100 or 150 people. Sort of inside chattering class types and they all typically get briefings from political conservative leaders. Ten days ago, they had an interesting visit from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."

Senor, whose most notable experience was as spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, later added, it was "the first time a Secretary of State has visited the Wednesday meeting. and she wasn't there to talk about the NATO meeting in Bucharest."

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Roxxxanne wrote:

Seriously though, you white guys think that your male privilege gives you the authority to do anything including hijacking threads. So typical.

Given that you've hijacked the Obama thread to post about Ms. Rice ... kettle/kettle

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Obama is steadily picking up more S-D's by the day.

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Each new SD endorsement makes Clinton's scenario that much more ridiculous.

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