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Crooked Moon Donating Member (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:40 PM
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Super Delegate Defections Coming?
“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.” Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view.

Several Clinton superdelegates, whose votes could help decide the nomination, said Monday that they were wavering in the face of Mr. Obama’s momentum after victories in Washington State, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine last weekend.

Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately “go with the flow,” in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/us/politics/12clinton.html?ei=5065&en=83bd560436fa713f&ex=1203397200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:41 PM
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1. Hopefully they stay out of it...
Then break for the candidate with the most pledged delegates.
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catagory5 Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:43 PM
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3. I will take that
It is all on Ohio and Texas and with that said, I would rather be Clinton than Obama if we are just counting those 2 states.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:49 PM
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8. If it's close I trust them to make a
prayerful decision. :D
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:42 PM
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2. Of course they will
There will not be a floor fight.
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dbackjon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:43 PM
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4. Which is why I never worried about the SD's deciding the convention
They will go with whomever the winds are blowing for, and what is best for the party.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:44 PM
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5. Hillary should just drop out Now. And lets unite behind Obama and Jim Webb
to take down the Repukes
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:48 PM
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6. I don't support her, but I don't think she should drop out
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:49 PM
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7. Where'd Jim Webb come from? What'd I miss? nt
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Crooked Moon Donating Member (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:50 PM
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9. ms. clinton owes it to herself and her supporters
to see it through until at least march 4. if there's a sea change, it should be evident by then.

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cottonseed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:52 PM
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11. I like the Jim Webb thing.
Another grassroots guy.
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cottonseed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:51 PM
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10. They're coming to their senses.
Edited on Mon Feb-11-08 10:54 PM by cottonseed
Elections have consequences, and if they go against the will of their constituents it'll hurt.
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-11-08 10:53 PM
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12. I hope it hurts bad.
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