TPM Interview with Hillary advisor Harold Ickes

[housewolf]

Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In His Discussions With Super-Delegates
By Greg Sargent - April 1, 2008, 3:25PM

In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in his discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election.

The comments from Ickes, who is Hillary's chief delegate hunter, are to my knowledge the first on-the-record confirmation from a Hillary adviser that the Wright controversy is a central subject in conversations between the Hillary campaign and the super-delegates her advisers are trying to win over to Hillary's side.

In the wide-ranging interview, Ickes also:

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[GarbagemanLB]

1. I'd also assume Obama's BOUNCE from the Wright controversy is also an issue.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. That's the biggest issue.They are giving Obama a bounce just like the repos

gave bill a bounce by impeaching him.

Americans are fair. They don't like bullshit spun into gottcha.

[housewolf]

5. ?

[Texas Hill Country]

2. of course it is... and he only got a bounce cause the media gave him a hummer calling him the...

new Dr. King and didnt stop for a week. BUT that does not change the fact that the presidential race is going to be with REPUBLICANS, and there is a HUGE portion of this country that didnt hear and could give less than a shit about that speech.



That speech said very little, called very little to action, was self serving, and unmemorable.

It was not "I have a dream" by a LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG shot.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Nice, Republican race-baiting argument ya got going there, Harold