If Hillary is running such a bad campaign, why is it so close?

[Neshanic]

[ErnestoG]

1. With all her connections, she should be miles ahead of Obama

Yet, she isn't. What does that tell you about HER campaign?

[maddiejoan]

2. shhhhhhhhhhhh

They don't wanna hear that.

[quantass]

3. Recall that she was ahead by 20-30 Points across the country back in Janary ... She is getting...

slaughtered the longer she is in this race...so the reason it is close is only a small view...yuo have to look at the trends across the whole year....And lets not forget that prior to Ohio/TX Obama had overtaken Clinton in polls and ended up blowing her out during the day of voting....

[tyne]

4. He's

won the last 11 races by an average of 32%.

[wndycty]

5. Is it really close? She lost the 11 races. . .

. . .and don't forget given her advantage and power it was supposed to be close, she should have had this wrapped up on Feb. 5. If you look at how far she was up in the polls there is no reason for this race to look like it does now.

[dailykoff]

6. It's close because she's running such a bad campaign.

It wasn't close three months ago.

[washingdem]

7. Establishment power.

She had keys to the White House for 8 years. Her husband was POTUS and a member of the Democratic party.

[Political Heretic]

8. When you blow a 30 point lead, and lose 11 in a row, and flatline while your opponent gains...

...its a bad campaign.

[KittyWampus]

9. it isn't close. She's behind by about 150 delegates. The Media pads her numbers by including

super delegates.

[LadyVT]

10. Yes, good point. 10 million + actually wanted to vote for her, and did. :)

[bigtree]

23. 10,829,006

[dansolo]

11. She was given a 60 yard head start in a 100 yard dash

And assumed that she only needed to go 10 yards to win.

[blm]

16. Bingo.

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[high density]

What is close?

The national poll numbers? Those don't matter. Those polls were nothing more than curiosities a year ago, now they're even less useful.

[mudesi]

12. She needs to win over 60% just to catch up

Delusion.

[LadyVT]

34. 60% of DELEGATES, not votes.

[sloppyjoe25s]

13. Close?!? ROFLMAO

last time I was losing 25-11 - it did not feel close.

[Neshanic]

14. Well if it really was a "bad" campaign, she would be out months ago. right?

[Occam Bandage]

35. If Obama's campaign was as bad as Hillary's, he wouldn't have made it past IA.

[thevoiceofreason]

15. The odds in her favor were a gagillion to one

[bigtree]

25. polls and pundits

gamblers with our democracy

[Mojambo]

17. This line only works if they both started the race at the same level

Everybody knows that's not true.

She stumbled, Obama surged, and that's where we're at.

[Sanctified]

18. I will put it like this.

When it comes to Political connections Hillary Clinton is the New England Patriots, while Barack Obama is the New York Giants. Hillary by and far should have blown Barack out of the water but like any given Sunday if you don't take your opponent seriously you can lose.

[Occam Bandage]

19. Because she started, by virtue of name recognition and connections, with a 30-point lead,

80% favorables, and has spent $140,000,000 to blow that.

[skipos]

20. If you think going from a 30% lead everywhere to where she is now is "good"

by golly, I hope she & Mark Penn keep up the good work!

[bigtree]

21. correct. She's only 315,000 behind in the popular vote, out of about 24 million votes cast

. . . and has effectively denied Obama the ability to achieve the necessary amount of delegates by votes alone.

[BeyondGeography]

27. You're including MI and FL

In fairly contested races that count, she's down a million votes.

[bigtree]

36. those are actual votes cast. I know the Obama campaign doesn't respect the will of those voters

but it is clearly expressed and is a legitimate measure of the support Clinton has received throughout this election.

[quantass]

22. It is nearly impossible for her to catch up...

the current polls and what she must do is next to impossible to do...she has lost 11 straight in blowout fashion and she is now tied with Obama in TX....this is a common pattern over all these contests...1) She has a big lead 2) Obama takes focus on the state 3) The state polls show him closing the gap 4) Obama begins to overtake the state poll 5) Voting Day: Obama wins with a Blowout 6) Next state..

What hurts Hilary is also her smear campaign that she just cant stop doing...she needs to be more friendly, like Obama....i hear a lot of negatives by the press and even the crowd ("boo" @ the debate) directed towards her...and honestly, i cant blame them..she plays dirty a lot!

[DUyellow]

24. 0 - 11

[AZBlue]

26. Ummm....it's not. And she's losing ground each day.

But you go on believing what you need to.

[Quixote1818]

28. She is losing by an average of close to 20 points in the last 11 contests.

I wouldn't call that close.

[Kaylee]

29. Hillary should've left Obama in the dust.....

He's black junior senator named Barack HUSSEIN Obama.....this shouldn't even be close. But he's also the most adept campaigners in the race and has a vision American's have been clamoring for.

[ecdab]

39. I would prefer to give Obama credit

for running an outstanding campaign than to try and discredit Hillary for running a poor campaign. The things that look like miscalculations - for the most part (I'll exclude the debacle in SC) - in the Hillary campaign in hind sight are really a result of what Obama has done. The style of campaign she has run, historically speaking, would have been very successful against another business as usual campaign, but that's not what she was up against.

[ProSense]

30. Her earlier wins were more about name recognition, and her lead held because of superdelegates.

The last 10 contest haven't been close at all.

[Johnny__Motown]

31. It isn't close, she can't possibly catch up in elected delegates. Your logic is flawed

It is only her name recognition that gave her the lead early. Now that the actual race is on her numbers constantly drop.
That and Clinton cronies that jumped on early for super delegates. That is all she ever had.

[beachmom]

32. Because she was up by as much as 30 points, has name recognition,

a former president for a husband, and an entire machine at her disposal. And she BLEW ALL OF THAT. To Obama's credit, he is a once in a lifetime candidate.

[MadBadger]

33. Because she was soooo far ahead.

[Neshanic]

37. Well why wasn't she out after California or earlier then?

She was light years ahead. She's still campaigning as far as I can tell, Obamaunits missives not taken into consideration.

So is she really a bad, or really a good campaigner and fighting, or a shrill woman?

[sniffa]

38. Bad

[MadBadger]

40. I got lost once we hit Obamaunits

[sniffa]

41. Yeah, same here

But at least the genuineness of the OP is gone.

[texas_indy]

43. Yea, I thought we were Obamatrons. This is getting so confusing!! LOL (nt)

[bowens43]

42. THe fact that it is not only close

but Obama is winning is clear evidence that she is running a horrible campaign.

[book_worm]

44. She was the front runner since '04 and presumed nominee it's to Obama's credit

that he is ahead of her.

[sandnsea]

45. Former President Bill Clinton

Is it really that difficult to figure out?

[TSIAS]

46. Are you being intentionally obtuse?

Clinton loses a 20 + point national lead, and now her supporters are crowing about having a remote chance of winning the nomination based on super-delegates.

It would be like the New York Yankees fans celebrating a wild card berth and 1st round exit in the playoffs.

Face it... Something is terribly wrong when a candidate of Ms. Clinton's stature is losing by 15, 20, and 30 points in states like Virginia, Wisconsin, and Maryland.