Clinton - Stark Ravings

April 01, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Matthew Sawh: The Psyche Vs. The Practical -- Understanding Ms. Rodham and Her Veep-List
By webteam
The most important decision task in front of Hillary is that she needs to strike the right balance between winning and governing (if she wins). Even sixteen years after the two-for-one deal signed by Bill Clinton, they remain a potent political package. One of the reasons Bill fell for Hillary was that they had complementary skill sets.

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March 25, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Johanna Wald: Tell Hillary the Party is Over
By webteam
The party’s over. Only, apparently, no one is brave enough to tell Hillary Clinton.

Granted, I pay more attention to “momentum” and to trends in public opinion polling than to the delegate math. But I learned something that startled me today. According to Josh Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo,

“ the press has been largely complicit in maintaining the fiction that the Democratic nomination race is not for all intents and purposes over.

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March 12, 2008

In Mississippi, Obama Holds Serve
By webteam
Sporting analogies are overdone in politics but this year's Democratic campaign -- with its clear demographic contours -- is a bit like a tennis match. Obama last night won a state he was predicted to win. Now, on to Pennsylvania, where it's up to Hillary to hold serve in a state she should carry.

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March 06, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 3/6 -- "Giant Step"
By webteam
This week's column looks at the problems ahead for the Democrats and why Hillary Clinton could well be the stronger general election candidate.

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March 05, 2008

Clinton Wins Big on Mini-Super Tuesday Which Means Big Problems for Democats
By webteam
As we anticipated in earlier posts and columns, the Democratic race is now headed to a train wreck, on the heels of Hillary Clinton's strong showings last night. The race now heads to Pennsylvania in late April but, as Fred Barnes noted jokingly last night on Fox, Pennsylvania is more like Ohio than Ohio, so it's uphill for Obama there.

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March 04, 2008

What's At Stake in Tonight's Primaries
By webteam
What's at stake in tonight's primaries? Actually, it's pretty straightforward. If Obama sweeps Ohio and Texas, it's over. If Clinton sweeps, she'll still trail in delegates but she still has a chance to win the nomination -- though it's not an easy path. If they split, Clinton can continue and cause interparty havoc but something very unusual will have to then occur to give her the nomination.

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March 03, 2008

Preview of Mini-Super Tuesday: Don't Assume the Obama-Clinton Race is Over
By webteam

The press has been approaching the upcoming contests in Ohio and Texas (with two other states voting) as the end of the line for the Clinton campaign. That could happen but it's far less likely than the media has been assuming. Sure, if Obama wins Ohio and Texas, it's over. But right now, the polls indicate that this is not a likely occurrence.

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February 22, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Vic Sholis: The Battle for Texas
By webteam
This is it, folks. After months of skirmishes across
the country, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in
Texas for the next two weeks, waging what possibly is
a fight to the death.

Texas is the biggest state left on the Democrats'
calendar, and both sides acknowledge that for Clinton
to survive, she must win in Texas. So what's it look

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February 22, 2008

Ted Van Dyk on Last Night's Austin Debate
By webteam

One of the Democrats' great senior wise men, Ted Van Dyk, former aide to Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, and others, sent me this wrapup of the debate last night. As always, he bears listening to:

. . . Both Obama and Clinton have honed their performances over many months until, now, they are in late-playoff form. Both kept their poise in the presence of the other.

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February 21, 2008

Will Clinton Go Super-Negative in the Debate Tonight?
By webteam
There is another Democratic debate tonight and Clinton partisans are undoubtedly hoping it marks the beginning of her comeback. There's some anticipation that she will go super-negative on Obama but the feeling here is that would be a mistake. She's already been pretty negative and dour and none of it appears to be sticking so far.

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February 21, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 2/21 --"Civil War"
By webteam

This week's Tote Board column, "Civil War," opines that if Hillary can come back in Ohio and Texas on March 4 --a better possibility than it might seem today -- the Dems are headed for, well, civil war.

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February 19, 2008

Instant Analysis of Tonight's Wisconsin Democratic Primary Results: Clinton Loses A State She Should Have Won
By webteam

Both Fox and CNN have called Wisconsin for Obama. The exit poll data showed, for example, that only 40% of the Wisconsin Democratic electorate had a college degree. That's a demographic mix tailor-made for Hillary and her inability to prevail tonight indicates a campaign now in serious trouble.
If she can't win Texas and Ohio in two weeks, it will be the beginning of the end.

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February 19, 2008

Clinton Fails to File Full Delegate Slate for Pennsylvania On Time: This Campaign is So Disorganized It Doesn't Deserve the Nomination
By webteam
More evidence of the Clinton campaign' inept negligence, of the sort we wrote about in last week's column: There are reports today that the campaign failed to file a full delegate slate for the Pennsylvania primary in April. Apparently she can make this up later. But still . . . .
Ready to be president on day one? She's not even ready to be a candidate on day 340.

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February 19, 2008

Preview of Tonight's Wisconsin Democratic Primary: More Than Meets the Eye
By webteam

Tonight's Wisconsin primary isn't going to determine who wins the Democratic nomination, though in a race this close everything counts. But it bears watching. So far, if you accept the notion that Clinton and Obama represent roughly equal constituencies (old vs. young, Latino vs. African-American, working class vs. upper class), there's only been one real surprise in the primary results so far.

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February 14, 2008

Tote Board Column 2/14 -- Losing It?
By webteam
This week's column shows how Clinton's ineptitude in running her own campaign may well show she is hardly prepared to be president.

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