Hillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders

[Catherina]

Hillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders

She’s courting Southern delegates to end this thing by Super Tuesday.

By Gabriel Debenedetti

09/21/15, 05:06 PM EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hillary Clinton can’t beat a Republican in Arkansas, but she’s not there for a general-election battle.
The former first lady has returned to her onetime home state to court Democratic convention-goers, knowing every southern delegate could prove crucial to ending Bernie Sanders’ run.

“This is about delegates, it isn’t about electoral votes,” said Skip Rutherford, a longtime Clinton friend and the dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. “There will be a completely different strategy when it comes to electoral votes.”

If it gets that far. With her challenger gaining ground in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Clinton’s team knows she needs to mobilize her family’s network of southern supporters and ensure the race for the party’s nomination does not extend beyond March 1.

Part of this involves convincing Democrats in an increasing conservative part of the country to see her as the only viable option against a Republican. So she’s contrasting herself and her positions not with Sanders but with the GOP contenders.

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www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-southern-arkansas-sanders-213897#ixzz3mQDstRsN

[Fumesucker]

1. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others

I'm not as bad as those people over there is such an inspirational and confidence inspiring message.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Uh oh...

If that's a strategy, it's bound to go nowhere.

People want answers and someone who they can believe in. Frankly, I can't see that coming from a delegate.

On edit: Can't these people understand what this election is about?

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Of course they understand what this election is about...

It's about electing the first female President... as long as it's Hillary Clinton.

[oasis]

5. By March 1 it would be about time to get down to business.

Nothing wrong with that strategy.

[tularetom]

6. "courting southern delegates", eh?

Time to break out the ol' fake accent, I guess.

[Renew Deal]

7. If you consider super-delegates, this primary is all but over.

[senz]

8. She realized the object in her rearview mirror is closer than she thought

and gaining on her.

[msongs]

9. so bernie will not attempt to mobilize delegates and make him the viable option against repubs? nt

[LuvLoogie]

11. Nope. It's a revolution. Coalition building is for corporatists

and DLC, third way , blahlblahblah

And Hillary does this not to win the nomination, but to do something to undermine the genuine, the authentic Bernard Sanders.

[olddots]

10. attention Wal mart shoppers