Signs of trouble for Hillary Clinton nationwide

[CreekDog]

She lost 22 primary/caucus contests and won only 10 and has now lost 8 in a row by at least 19 percent.

She has completely lost her lead and been overtaken in nationwide polls against Obama and McCain.

Her campaign risks antagonizing her own voters by pledging to take the nomination even if she loses in the primaries and caucuses by using superdelegates to overturn the voters choice if the voters do not give her a plurality.

Her campaign does not find conflict between using the superdelegates because the rules allow it, but insists on seating Michigan and Florida delegates when the rules do not allow it.

Her campaign has said that her opponent has not won any big states except for Illinois, minimizing all other states that Obama has won.

She minimizes victories by Obama in states where black voters participated in significant numbers, but brags of her victories where she campaigned specifically to get Hispanic support.

This is scorched earth people and voters will not like it.

Stay tuned.

[Jane Austin]

1. Did she crack 40% in any of those eight contests

in a row?

They've come so fast and furious, I can't remember for sure.

[XemaSab]

5. Let's see:

Washington: 31%
Nebraska: 32%
Louisiana: 36%
Maine: 40%
Virginia: 35%
DC: 24%
Maryland: 37%

So yeah, she got to 40% in Maine. Didn't break it though. :P

[CreekDog]

6. but it was a very significant 40%

:spank:

[WCGreen]

2. That's why I am losing respect for her very fast....

[SoCalDem]

3. The letting-go of Solis may hurt her in Texas

The press always pronounces the name as "SAHL-iz"...but there is already a backlash from the Hispanic community about her being replaced.. They know the name is pronounced So-LEES, and that she is no anglo..

Bill blew her lead with blacks and now the Solis, thing may work against her with Hispanics in texas..

[TheWraith]

4. I think the phrase "signs of IMPLOSION" might be more accurate.

Hillary's starting to provide evidence that she really does have the enormous ego problem some people credit her with, if she's willing to continue on with this nastiness against the obvious direction things are going.

[NMMatt]

7. So if Florida and Michigan are so important...

Why didn't Clinton support their rule-violating Primaries when the DNC stripped them rather than agree with the rest of the candidates that they wouldn't count? And why isn't the Obama campaign pressing this point harder?

If Caucuses are "un-Democratic" why didn't she say so before Iowa, or actively work for their elimination in her 35 years of blah, blah, blah?

That's what bothers me so much about her. It's the blatant, in your face, jaw dropping opportunism. I mean in Clinton world, we should let all the states vote and then select the ones that vote for her and claim those are the states that count. It's this Bush-Rovian contempt for the rule of law that I just cannot accept on principle.