“In an interview yesterday, Hillary — whose connection to President Clinton’s 2001 sentence commutations for two members of the Weather Underground has become an issue since she tried to raise questions about Obama’s acquaintance with another ex-Weatherman — told ‘Inside Edition’ that she ‘didn’t know anything about’ the 2001 clemency case…If it’s true, it means that she got the worst briefings in the world when she was running for Senate in 2000 and the clemency issue was hot in Rockland County, and it means that Chuck Schumer didn’t even bother to mention the issue to his fellow NY senator-elect/ First Lady after promising the widows of two dead cops to fight against one of the clemencies.” Following her recent attempt to make hay from the Weathermen, Sen. Clinton gets caught in another obvious lie. Oops.
Meanwhile, following on the two he picked up yesterday, Sen. Obama scores another superdelegate in Oregon rep David Wu. “‘We need new policies both at home and abroad,’ Wu said in a statement. ‘Like Americans, the international community wants to see real change in America and I believe that Senator Obama embodies that change.’” As you probably know, Sen. Clinton needs the superdelegates to break 2-1 her way from now herein for the comeback math to make any sense at all. So, since Pennsylvania (1 for Clinton, 3 for Obama), she’s already 5 down on where she needs to be.
Don’t you get the feeling that the ground has shifted and the people in the media have decided that Obama is damaged and “if he doesn’t win Indiana, he’s done for”…?
Having lived in IN, I find it hard to believe he would win there, although he does have certain home field advantages. And he’s a good basketball player, which has to help. In any case, I’m very worried about this one being hyped as a true dealbreaker – unlike PA, which everyone knew he would lose.
Despite his evident popularity down in NC, I believe his victory will be considerably narrower than people are expecting. I would love to be wrong, as I have been so many times before. (Also thought he might not win VA or WI…) My mom said she saw only one other Obama sticker in Gastonia, and it was on a Volvo.
Of course, as UNCC’s Ted Arrington points out in this article, the Gastonia area is basically the ne plus ultra of white Republican roughneck racism, so the lack of Obama love there is not too surprising. In general I think he will do pretty badly in the western part of the state, which makes his decision not to campaign in Asheville disappointing.
Heya,
I do get the sense that Indiana has taken on particular importance (especially since Obama himself called it a “tiebreaker.”) But I still see no path to the nomination for Clinton that doesn’t involve subverting the whole process by overturning the pledged delegate count. I just can’t imagine that happening, no matter what happens in the next month or so.
The media can obsess about the vagaries of the white working class from now until Doomsday, but the Democratic party cannot function at a national level without the votes of African-Americans (and, to a lesser extent, white upscale liberal voters.) The powers-that-be are just not going to risk party suicide — and a very likely Chicago ’68-style uproar in Denver — for a candidate as divisive and flawed as Clinton. I just don’t see it happening.