SDs will endorse Obama...losing AA vote would cost Dems numerous seats.

[dkf]

Dems' suspense may be unnecessary
By ELIZABETH DREW | 4/25/08 4:47 AM EST
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The torrent of speculation about the end game of the Democratic nomination contest is creating a false sense of suspense – and wasting a lot of time of the multitudes who are anxious to know how this contest is going to turn out.

Notwithstanding the plentiful commentary to the effect that the Pennsylvania primary must have shaken superdelegates planning to support Barack Obama, causing them to rethink their position, key Democrats on Capitol Hill are unbudged.

“I don’t think anyone’s shaken,” a leading House Democrat told me. The critical mass of Democratic congressmen that has been prepared to endorse Obama when the timing seemed right remains prepared to do so. Their reasons, ones they have held for months, have not changed – and by their very nature are unlikely to.

Essentially, they are three:

(a) Hillary Rodham Clinton is such a polarizing figure that everyone who ever considered voting Republican in November, and even many who never did, will go to the polls to vote against her, thus jeopardizing Democrats down the ticket – i.e., themselves, or, for party leaders, the sizeable majorities they hope to gain in the House and the Senate in November.

(b) To take the nomination away from Obama when he is leading in the elected delegate count would deeply alienate the black base of the Democratic Party, and, in the words of one leading Democrat, “The superdelegates are not going to switch their votes and jeopardize the future of the Democratic Party for generations.” Such a move, he said, would also disillusion the new, mostly young, voters who have entered into politics for the first time because of Obama, and lose the votes of independents who could make the critical difference in November.

(c) Because the black vote can make the decisive difference in numerous congressional districts, discarding Obama could cost the Democrats numerous seats.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9862.html

[blm]

1. Exactly - and Clintons and media have KNOWN this truth since Super Tuesday. Hillary 2012

has been the campaign they are running since Super Tuesday - and corpmedia is helping them do it by DELUDING The poor Hillary supporters who believe their lies about her chances and her ability to win.

She hasn't HAD a chance to win since Super Tuesday.

Most of the media and all of the Clinton campaign believe their supporters are TOO STUPID to comprehend the simple math.

[dkf]

2. We already know what happens when a Clinton is elected President.

We land up losing both houses of congress, and then we are stuck in stalemate with perpetual bickering and gridlock.

Electing her would be counterproductive.

[blm]

4. Most importantly, Clintons cover up for Bushes and the powerful elite cronies

surrounding the Bushes.

[Submariner]

3. She Tombstoned herself anyway with the Bosnia sniper story

McCain supporters have him on film being captured and imprisoned in a POW camp, against a backdrop of a SAM missile blowing an A4 Skyhawk out of the sky. Taking those film clips and meshing them with Hillary telling how she ran for cover from sniper fire would kill her dead with the voters. She shot herself in the foot.

[juajen]

5. Bullshit!

NT

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. I don't know what this means

but when I read the title, I couldn't figure out what "AA" referred to. I was thinking "Air America", but that didn't make sense. Only when I read the post did I understand. I guess when I think of Obama as a candidate, I don't think of his race. I hope that means I'm not a racist in my thinking!

[Nia Zuri]

7. You mean you are "color blind" you don't see race. Just like Stephen Colber