Senator Clinton --

[saltpoint]

(a) believes in her true heart that she will be the nominee, that her chances remain excellent.

(b) believes she has pulled even with Obama but that significant uncertainty clouds the way forward.

(c) believes Obama has only a minimal advantage, owing to the slow bleed of super delegates his direction.

(d) knows she has lost but remains in the race as a point of pride and to bolster her national profile.

(e) knows she has lost but wishes to finish strong to exert influence in the party's collective future.

(f) knows she has lost but remains in the race to meet campaign debts.

(g) knows she has lost but wants to trade influence for a Senate Majority Leader role, or to name the party's next Chair.

(h) knows she has lost but wishes to weaken Obama vs. McCain, leaving 2012 more open for her.

(i) OTHER

[Maddy McCall]

1. (i) other. Polls in this forum are useless.

[saltpoint]

3. So are toads with teeth.

[cliffordu]

7. LOL!!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Mz Pip]

14. Oh snap!

Made me laugh! :rofl:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I Don't Get It

Are you implying Maddy is a toad?

[saltpoint]

17. I posted a poll. Folks can participate in it if they wish.

Or not.

It's up to them.

[MADem]

4. Well, meaningless. Not useless, if you like to click!! Click, click, click! NT

[FreakinDJ]

2. HRC the FUX News / O'Riely sell out

I heard her comments and am even more disgusted

[MADem]

6. Ah, but Obama on Hannity, and Fox News Sunday, (where he was gonna take 'em on!) is fine.

Ohhh kayyy....

[Radical Activist]

5. (i) is an egomaniac gone batshit crazy.

[mathewsleep]

8. "h" is for hillary hates honor.

[saltpoint]

10. Hey there. I haven't seen you in a while around these parts, and

that's been my loss.

Hello to ya, and happy spring time.

[mathewsleep]

11. i mostly troll around.

i'm so sick of this primary, i just want it to end.

[saltpoint]

12. You're not alone. I bet you and Howard Dean could find a thing or

two to talk about over a pitcher of cold beer.

[mathewsleep]

13. i like dark beer.

think dean's okay with that?

[saltpoint]

15. I bet he is. We should email the Democratic National Committee and

find out.


:toast:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I Used To Like To Chase One And One Half Ounce Shots Of Tequila Wth Bud

Once made it all the way up to sixteen...

[saltpoint]

9. She would not enter a nomination race with odds as strongly against her

as they are now.

She entered the race ("I'm in it to win it") when she was the most recognized woman on earth, and one of the most recognizable humans on earth, for that matter, with a massive stash of funds, significant connections, plus her husband's political celebrity.

Barack Obama and John Edwards beat her in Iowa. She narrowly won New Hampshire. Her husband stunk up the place in South Carolina in advance of a landslide for Obama there. And most damning of all, she didn't have one syllable of a plan for the contests post-February 5th because she thought it would all be over by then with the nation fawning over her every step and utterance.

She has very little support among independents and grassroots progressives, and properly so.

I included in the poll an 'OTHER' choice if someone wants to add to the considerations of interpretations for Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House.

[Orsino]

19. Other. Knows she hasn't officially lost yet...

...and sees at least one way to win. Wants to be positioned as strongly as possible going into the convention. Hoping for an upset, but perhaps willing to take the VP slot if she can get it.

[saltpoint]

20. Hi, Orsino. Possible. I'd like to sit in on one of those private

strategy meetings with her advisors.

[Orsino]

21. Heh. We couldn't afford to sit in on those private meetings.

They're about the kind of money DUers don't have. I'm sure they'd be interesting in a sickening sort of way, and I have a morbid curiosity about such things--but maybe I don't wanna know how the sausage is made.

I'm sure those meetings would provide an endless supply of gotcha sound bites.

[saltpoint]

22. They might let us in if we bring a snow shovel as a donation.

And a bag of donuts.