Unwilling to Fall, Clinton Knocks Out a Convincing Victory and …
Hillary Clinton returned to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to take a breather from the campaign trail and enjoy a convincing victory in West Virginia before re-launching her longshot bid to defeat front-runner Barack Obama for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton rallied supporters with her decisive win Tuesday, but she will have to shout to be heard in the final three weeks of the Democratic contest as Obama increasingly turns his attention toward the general election.
The Illinois senator was campaigning and meeting with newspaper editorial boards in Michigan Wednesday, a state in which he refused to appear on the ballot to support the Democratic National Committee’s decision to penalize the state for holding its primary ahead of Super Tuesday, Feb. 5.
With Clinton vowing to stay in the race until every vote is counted — and the party likely to find a mechanism to seat Michigan as well as the also-penalized state of Florida at the Democratic National Convention in August — Obama may be trying to sew up some loose ends.
But the Illinois senator is talking like he is already the nominee, and heading to Michigan could be his attempt to signal that he has moved on to the general election and is preparing to fight for the potential battleground state against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. Obama headed to Michigan Tuesday night from Missouri, another expected battleground, where he delivered a speech at an economic forum without ever mentioning Clinton’s name.
With his wide lead in total delegates and much of the political talking class in Washington ready to designate Obama the Democratic nominee, Clinton has quite a mountain to climb to convince Democrats she’s the best candidate. But she tried her best to signal that her 40-point margin of victory in West Virginia proves the race is far from over.
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May 14th, 2008 at 7:25 am
His name was pulled out of the Town Tophat.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Um, if you actually weren’t just a lazy asshole, you would have checked my user history and see that I go back almost 2 years. So let me drop my “elitist” Reddit status on you by telling you to STFU, n00b.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I’d be bitter if my Mayor’s name was ‘Junior’ too.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I demand that West Virginian yokels come to Wisconsin and tell me to my face they’re not retarded.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Who the hell thinks one can hide being a Muslim? They have to pray toward Mecca five times a day. Someone would have noticed that if Obama was a Muslim.Does he have to stand before them and eat a pork sandwich to prove it?
May 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I used to live in WV, and yes, yes they are. With good reason.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
West Virginia was NOT in the Confederacy, it split off from Virginia and joined the Union.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
mountain mama - take her home!
May 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Not lazy I have seen you post for the year or so that I have been here to but if you act like you had been on Reddit before I may not have to explain the most common rule of Reddit AND the internet. What would a 13 year old boy post?
May 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Calling people “Yokels” is the surest way to make progress.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
The problem is that people have a tendency toward believing things that are more complex than they can understand.If you talk to a smart medical doctor and try to explain how an electrical circuit works, you could give a TOTALLY wrong explanation, even one with obvious, glaring logical flaws. As long as they don’t have reason to doubt you, the messenger, they’ll buy into it, because they don’t know enough on the subject to refute what you’ve said and the complexity of the explanation lends it authenticitySo when you start talking about liberation theology and che guevara and all these other things that Americans know nothing about, their inclination is to believe it because otherwise that would mean someone just, well, MADE UP all those details stories to deceive you.Of course, what makes it so insidious is that, actually, their instincts are correct: the complex explanation they’ve heard is largely factual, but it is explained in a way that suggests things that are not true, or includes some smaller lies, or omits other truthful facts that provide proper context.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Sure, not everyone in WV is a redneck, but there is an awful lot of them, more so than a lot of other states.From my experiences in Morgantown, Clarksburg, and Salem, the redneck stereotype holds for a lot of the population of WV.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Geez, you’d think that all this stupid coverage of Obama’s PASTOR would at least silence these stupid morons.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Hey, the guy who demanded that Obama come to their town is the County Clerk — he’s too busy to read newspapers, let alone think.