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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:41 PM
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Hillary is not dropping out after a win. Don't expect it. Don't demand it.
It's not going to happen, so don't be dissapointed or frustrated when she doesn't. Even if she getting the nomination isn't going to happen, either, I think we all know the game well enough to know the next move.

So demanding she drop out is just posturing. Don't bother.
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Condem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:42 PM
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1. Rucky
She won. She deserves to stay in.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:42 PM
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2. I hope to gawd she doesn't.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:43 PM
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3. But her biggest hurtle will be money, and I guess we will have to wait and see how that plays out.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:43 PM
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4. It's time we send a message to the SDs to end the carnage
the game is over
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:43 PM
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5. No one will "demand" it
But if the uncommitted super delegates begin a mass endorsement of Obama, hopefully she's smart enough to do the right thing.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:44 PM
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6. Not now, but after the primaries are over I DEMAND THE PERSON BEHIND DROP OUT
if that person doesn't it reflects that person doesn't care about the country or the party

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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:44 PM
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Five Percent - 5% - "win" .
She wouldn't drop after losing seven straight. Win/lose has lost any meaning.
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:44 PM
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7. Of course she won't. That would be the right thing to do, the ethical thing. So, she won't. nt
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godai Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:45 PM
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8. Nobody's demanding it but she's out of money and likely will lose the next 2 primaries.
She will still trail by 500,000 votes overall and by 140 or so delegates. There's no way she can catch up. The euphoria of tonight will fade to the reality of tomorrow morning. I think this ends in 2 weeks, if not sooner.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:46 PM
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9. Not with Indiana coming up. Then again...
I didn't expect Edwards to call it quits just before super Tuesday.

My guess is that the internals showed something that he'd rather not have seen.
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:46 PM
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10. Agree, a win is a win
and I'm getting sick and tired of everyone in the Obama campaign and news media piling on her every time she wins.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:02 PM
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15. How can you get sick and tired of something that happens
so infrequently?
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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:46 PM
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11. She'll limp along for two weeks then quit after N C and IN
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:49 PM
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13. That's more like it.
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JeanGrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:49 PM
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12. I think she's got a mental problem. Because I DO expect it.
This is getting really harmful.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 09:54 PM
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14. I expect and demand that Hillary face the reality that she has lost.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:08 PM
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17. And her next smear
will contain words like "entitled" and other things we threw at her earlier in the primary.

which is what it will sound like to people who don't follow electoral math (like 90% of us).

If this is how she (and especially her supporters) want her to go down, we may as well let her do that on her own terms. I don't see it helping Obama to have it any other way - and the Hillary supporters here have said as much.

When she loses Guam, IN and NC, we'll talk.
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Sir Jeffrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:04 PM
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16. I expect this nomination to go on until 2011.
This is getting fucking ridiculous.
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GoesTo11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:16 PM
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18. Can we demand a dignified campaign?
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:18 PM
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21. Sure.
Edited on Tue Apr-22-08 10:19 PM by rucky
So we should let her go on her own terms.

She's gotta know what we know about the math. Why I think her motives for staying in are about pride, which is silly but expected in politics, she has supporters we can't afford to alienate.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:17 PM
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19. Why should she get out now, when we all are having so much *cough* fun?
:eyes:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:17 PM
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20. Her campaign is like a remake of The Trouble with Harry.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:20 PM
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22. Or Weekend at Bernies
depending on how wacky you think it all is.
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