What do you think is the main reason Clinton's staying in the race?

[Onlooker]

[NanceGreggs]

1. "Other" ...

... although it encompasses some of the above choices.

MY HO: In for a penny, in for a pound. There is no 'next time', no 'maybe 2012 if McCain wins it', no 'someday in the future'.

This is IT for Hillary. Too many bridges have been burned, no exit strategy, no turning back to live and fight another day.

It's THIS TIME or it's never. So she's willing to do anything, say anything, use any tactic to get there - because after this primary, she's done - forever.

[ORDem]

4. She's done with being President, but there is so much more she is capable of.

Just being a Dem. Senator is a big deal in my book, especially if she's constructive and gets landmark legislation passed. She could be Gov. of NY, write more books, win a Nobel, work on the Clinton Foundation, etc., etc. No reason for her to crawl in a corner and die.

:dem:

[NanceGreggs]

5. Agreed, a thousand percent!

I was simply talking about her presidential ambitions. It's now or never, and that's why, IMHO, she isn't willing to let it go. This has been her life-long dream, and this is her last shot at having it come to fruition.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Because she is a narcissist

who believes she deserves to be president.

[Mz Pip]

3. I think she believes

there is a chance she can convince enough super delegates that she is more electable. SHe may be hoping that there wil be some new dirt on Obama that starts swinging the superdelegates her way.

It's a long shot but it's all she has and she'll ride this out until it's done.

[Lord Helmet]

6. I think it's a two fer: Ego plus sabotaging Obama so she can run in 2012

[greguganus]

7. Because Bill has promised several college grads internships in the White House. n/t

[DainBramaged]

8. What about she wants to show the men she has as big a dick as they do?

I'm just sayin. 'Cause it's like she is out to prove something to someone, but she is only proving to be a party wrecker.

[greguganus]

12. Well Carville said she had 3 cojones so she must be well endowed. n/t

[dailykoff]

9. Other. She got rolled by the neocons, again.

They promised her something would "happen" to Obama and she bet the farm on it. Looks like a win-win for them, and she was a fool to think they wouldn't double cross her, but the sooner she disappears the easier I'll sleep.

[dogday]

10. I believe she may be trying to wrangle the VP spot...

I really thought last night, she was done.. She canceled her appearances, and she was supposed to meet with super delegates, which I felt they would compel her to drop out... However today, whatever happened, she has made the decision to go on, and since our rules call for 2025 delegates, she has every right to continue.... It's politics and anything can happen....

[Kokonoe]

11. I'll say it as nicely and quickly as possible in two words

Operation Chaos

[housewolf]

13. The Clintons don't quit... they are not "quitters"

Especially at someone else's urging.

She'll get out, but it will be at a time and place of her own choosing, not because she's being pressured by the media to do so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Debt retirement, or as much as she can

[madrchsod]

17. no one is going to give her a dime...

she`s spending her own money now and paying cash...

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. She's gotten some money for hard core loyalists

and usually the party helps, I can bet there are talks about that right now... not that anybody would tell you that is the case

But listen for the dog whistles, once they increase you know they are about to fold (Dog whistles, when hard core well known supporters ask the candidate to fold)

Not all will be taken care off, but quite a bit of it. This is not my first rodeo!

[madrchsod]

15. keep her in the race......she`s doing just fine

[Blue State Bandit]

16. To finish paying off her Pizza Hut and Dunkin' Donuts tabs.

She's in a financial hole and she needs to raise more money to pay off her vendors and loans to herself.

[saltpoint]

18. Her perception of the office is that it is rightly hers. Her perception is

that for enduring the public humiliation of Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky et al her husband owes her his connections and his political clout and influence to put her in the top job.

Notwithstanding the fact that she is not a particularly good politician. Certainly she is not a good speaker. Certainly her track record on tough issues like health care is highly questionable, witness the monstrous collapse of her health care initiative in the 90s. And certainly her judgment in this campaign has fluctuated between inadequate to the task and piss-poor.

I want one goddam news anchor to ask the Me-First Senator Clinton to her face why her campaign had no preparations and plans in place post Feb. 5th.

I voted 'ego.'

[Gore1FL]

20. I vote other because

she needs to recoup $12 million or so bucks so she can pay herself back.

[returnable]

21. Based on her latest statements in USA Today, she's hoping...

...to raise her profile just enough to become the next Grand Wizard of the local KKK.

[True_Blue]

22. Other

She thinks Obama will implode and hoping he does it before he gets the nomination.