What Now, Hillary?
Let's see...she through 'the kitchen sink'. She went on Saturday Night Live AND The Daily Show. She exposed his Canadian scandal! She scared the crap out of voters with her 3:00am ad. She had her minions out talking and spreading her message on all the news shows with an overwhelming force. And what did she accomplish last night?
Not one thing. Vermont trumps Rhode Island in the delegate count. Her win in Ohio is a stunning underperformance given the effort she put into losing a twenty point lead in the state. Yes, I know that you are all talking about how racist we are in Ohio this morning. Believe me. You simply are not puting last night into its proper context. The election you need to reference is Ken Blackwell's run for governor in 2006. As conservative a state as Ohio likes to consider itself, Blackwell, a conservative Republican with the full support of the religious right mega churches got nowhere near the support Obama recieved last night. As conservative as Ohio white people are, Hillary Clinton should have blown Obama out of the water in Ohio last night. But she surprisingly didn't. Ohio is making some real progress in terms of racial politics and in terms of voters trending left if last night's results are real.
And then, of course the narrow victory in Texas. She practically lived there and that was the best she could do? Losing another 20 point lead with all the negative campaigning she did? Damn!
What now?
I mean she has already endorsed John McCain. She has already tried to make people think he is muslim and that he is best friends with people who were radicals when he was eight years old. What's left? Is she going to talk about his mama? A showdown on the streets of Casper, Wyoming at noon? The only thing left to her is to get right down in the gutter and just wallow in dirt and filth.
There are facts, and there is spin. And facts speak louder. And the facts are that Obama strategists have a plan for this process. The plan always took into account losing in Texas and Ohio. The facts are that Obama's performance exceeded the plan last night in spite of the negative campaign and having the media turn against him in the last two weeks.
Things are looking pretty good for us Obama supporters this morning. I think I will go back and play with the delegate counter games some more! And then send the campaign another $100.
Not one thing. Vermont trumps Rhode Island in the delegate count. Her win in Ohio is a stunning underperformance given the effort she put into losing a twenty point lead in the state. Yes, I know that you are all talking about how racist we are in Ohio this morning. Believe me. You simply are not puting last night into its proper context. The election you need to reference is Ken Blackwell's run for governor in 2006. As conservative a state as Ohio likes to consider itself, Blackwell, a conservative Republican with the full support of the religious right mega churches got nowhere near the support Obama recieved last night. As conservative as Ohio white people are, Hillary Clinton should have blown Obama out of the water in Ohio last night. But she surprisingly didn't. Ohio is making some real progress in terms of racial politics and in terms of voters trending left if last night's results are real.
And then, of course the narrow victory in Texas. She practically lived there and that was the best she could do? Losing another 20 point lead with all the negative campaigning she did? Damn!
What now?
I mean she has already endorsed John McCain. She has already tried to make people think he is muslim and that he is best friends with people who were radicals when he was eight years old. What's left? Is she going to talk about his mama? A showdown on the streets of Casper, Wyoming at noon? The only thing left to her is to get right down in the gutter and just wallow in dirt and filth.
There are facts, and there is spin. And facts speak louder. And the facts are that Obama strategists have a plan for this process. The plan always took into account losing in Texas and Ohio. The facts are that Obama's performance exceeded the plan last night in spite of the negative campaign and having the media turn against him in the last two weeks.
Things are looking pretty good for us Obama supporters this morning. I think I will go back and play with the delegate counter games some more! And then send the campaign another $100.
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The 3 AM ad scared you? That's not scary. Not having health insurance is scary. As for what now? She whips his so bad in Pennsylvania that nobody can envision him going on to face McCain.
March 5, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
No Health Insurance is scary (I don't have any). Too bad HRC blew it in 1993.
March 5, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
You guys must be really confident if you think she can win 140+ delegates in Pennsylvania.
Oh, and by the way... the whippings that are to come are in Wyoming and Mississippi. Or don't you guys like democracy any more?
March 5, 2008 10:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the post. I, too, will probably contribute some more money to the Obama campaign.
We Obama supporters had a rough night last night. But we've been spoiled by Obama's routs...and they were routs...during February.
I'm tired of hearing that my demographic sticks to Hillary. I'm white, female, and I'm 61. There isn't any way that I want Hillary or Bill back in the White House.
Hillary's victimhood, which she's cultivated over many years, has played to her advantage. MA THEY'RE PICKIN' ON ME. All the junk from the 90s makes any Rezko stuff look like small potatoes.
I think Obama should come out with simple crystal-clear statements on how he intends to govern. I understand his positions, but people less interested in politics than I am tend to make judgements based on soundbites.
So, my question is this: when they talk about affordable healthcare, how much will it cost?
March 5, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cyn2,
I think you are right. Obama does not need to talk about what the proposal is so much as he needs to talk about who he will have at the table to come up with a health care proposal. He needs to talk about how he intends to make healthcare reform a transparent process so that we don't feel secret deals are going on behind our backs. He needs to talk about involving the generals again in military decisions such as what the best way to withdraw from Iraq might be. George Bush just went pushing in without listening to anyone's advice. Anyone who didn't tell him what he wanted to hear was pushed into early retirement. How would Obama do things differently?
As for last night, I am not discouraged. I am fired up! Ready to go! We need to bust a move in Wyoming and Mississippi. That will make you feel better. The media gave Hillary a pass this last few weeks in order to make up for percieved sins of favoritism. They did everyting they could to help her last night. It wasn't enough. She could blow us out in every contest from here on out and we would still be ahead in pledged delegates. Let's us just stick to the plan and keep working for change. I only hope that we Obama supporters can be as calm and classy and focused as our candidate.
March 5, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
You guys must be really confident if you think she can win 140+ delegates in Pennsylvania.
They don't think any such thing. They're just happy to see that Hillary is going to do everything she can to take the Democratic party down with her.
March 5, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink