Question: Will Hillary "waiting until March 4th"...

[Labors of Hercules]

have a similar result to Ghouliani waiting until Florida?

Is it a sound strategy for her to focus all her attention now on Texas, Ohio, Vermont and RI?

[NightWatcher]

1. how can she write off states in the primaries then hope to carry them in the general

she shouldnt be picking and choosing, it didnt work to well for Mr. 9/11

[liberalnurse]

4. I'm not going to tell you.

I like to see the ignorance of others around here. Those who just can't seem to do the math or look outside the box...

:rofl:

[Skip Intro]

8. Writing off states? I don't think she is. She was the only candidate to thank the voters of FL

in person. She'll win that state in Nov because of that.

[SKKY]

2. It's funny, but I was wondering the same thing...

...I think Rudy proved you can't cherry-pick states. A lot can happen between now and March 4th.

[Tarc]

3. A rather asinine comparison

How many states and delegates had Giuliani won by the time he sat to "wait" for Floridia? How many does Clinton have?

Sitting on a slight lead and banking on upcoming delegate-rich states is a world apart from sitting out a Zero and banking on a single delegate-rich state.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Rudi Won One Fucking Delegate

Next

[HeraldSquare212]

6. She's going to have to keep a lot of drama going between now and then to keep the spotlight. nt

[XemaSab]

9. This is rough to say

but I have reached the conclusion that she loves playing the victim card, and I'm wondering how many more times she can pull it out before it sort of falls apart on her.

(This is half what I've seen her say and do, and it's half the fact that the women I know who voted for her voted for her because they felt sorry for her and how she's "been treated by the media.")

[Silent3]

7. No, not that similar...

...because she's already shown she has some big wins, has acquired plenty of delegates already, and because of proportional allotment of delegates, she's still making some headway by picking up some delegates as she goes along.

This is not to say this won't be a tough period of time for her, and the bad publicity of losing so many states between now and 3/4 is likely to impact what she can win on 3/4 -- her margins of victory even if she wins are likely to be smaller, and then proportional delegates will work against her, shrinking the gains she makes.

Without some new surprises (and there probably will be surprises of some sort over the next few weeks) I see this as dragging on as a close race for a while, even with the momentum Obama is picking up now.

[Labors of Hercules]

10. but will it have a similar result? Certainly the circumstances are not as similar. nt.

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. her entire strategy is based off of 50.00001%

as long as she can get one more vote than the other guy, that's all that matters.

She thinks she'll clean up in Texas and Ohio and Pennsylvania, the three biggest remaining states.

[JVS]

12. God grant it!

[Quixote1818]

13. I would suggest Obama go to those stats almost as much as Hillary

Since he is going to win most of the other states up to that point, why not? He could pull out some wins or at least keep her winning margin at only a couple of points.

[VotesForWomen]

14. she should be campaigning in all the remaining states. nt

[hill08]

15. why would it have similar effect? Please explain