Clinton: Caucuses aren't elections...but please vote for me!

[jedreport]

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The Clinton campaign is attacking caucuses because Barack Obama won them. On Friday 3/7 in Wyoming, Clinton said they weren't elections...but still asked the people of Wyoming to vote for her (you confused yet?).

On Monday 3/10, Keith Olbermann and Chuck Todd explained why.

[Zachstar]

1. The chances of her getting the supers to overturn the pledged delegate lead is almost IMPOSSIBLE...

Not after she gave the Republicans perfect talking points.

If that were to happen there would be a republican in the white house for another 4 years.

Many supers themselves said that they would not do such a thing.

This will not happen so I hope that Clinton will exit after tomorrow.

[jedreport]

2. me too.

what's your over/under?

[Zachstar]

9. Obama/Edwards

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. whistling past the graveyard

[BrklynGreenDog]

3. South Dakota to change primary rules

Guess there aren't enough Hillary haters to get the result they want.

I expect the typical outrage at changing the rules blahdie.. blah.. blah..

[jedreport]

6. the link doesn't work...

[jedreport]

8. here's a link that works

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/03/10/south_dakota_democrats_may_open_primary.html

short story -- dems my open sd primary which will benefit obama.

iirc, puerto rico changed its delegate plan in the middle of the game from caucus to primary and obama didn't complain.

and i think when mi and fl finally get a plan together that works, obama won't complain either.

so i don't think this will be an issue.

[rateyes]

13. That's not a violation of any rule.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Thanks for the video Jed

Love your website

:yourock:

[jedreport]

5. thanks! :)

[jgraz]

7. Un-frickin-believable

If this was ANYONE besides Hillary Clinton pulling this shit, they'd be out on their ear by now.

[ForeignSpectator]

10. What's did she actually ever achieve for the Democratic party that is soo great and special...

...to enable her to survive in the party even after the Obama/mcpain comments she made (numerous times) ?? If there is something, I would like to know. After all, she is campaigning like a repub, she might as well become one, will be a good riddance.

Obama already achieved so much for the party by inspiring this many people for politics and Democrats again and all she does is smearing all over the place for benefit of clinton's party of MEEEEEEE.

[ekwhite]

21. You are forgetting Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton was the only two-term Democratic president since Truman, and the only Democratic President elected to a second term since Kennedy. Like it or not, we would have been even worse off if Bill Clinton hadn't been in office for eight years. It is unfortunate that her campaign has flushed their legacy down the toilet.

[aquart]

11. And just like that, I no longer watch Olbermann.

[bowens43]

12. the truth sucks, doesn't it?

[ihavenobias]

14. Yes, we must ignore ALL information that challenges our beliefs and opinions

even from sources we used to strongly trust.

Makes sense. ;)

[rateyes]

15. ...

[roguevalley]

23. Olbermann will survive without you but its questionable that she

will survive after dissing every caucus that exists. Kick people in the teeth, slam their state and expect support? How delusional is that?

[LeahMira]

16. Plainly put...

both primaries and general elections ought to be decided by popular vote. If Colorado, for instance, gets 2,000 votes for Hillary and 2,001 for Obama, that result should be given to the convention and totaled in with the popular vote from all the other states and territories. For heaven's sake. We have computers now. We can do this.

The President ought to be elected by popular vote as well. Screw the electoral college! Every other candidate needs to win a popular vote. Why not the President?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. Barack won them with 1 time Rethuglican crossover votes...Hillary is right!

[ekwhite]

22. So are you willing to give up the Republican votes

that put Senator Clinton over the top in Texas? Fair is fair, is it not?

[RazBerryBeret]

19. I have been searching..

for a reason or reasonable theory why Clinton doesn't win caucus elections? I know she says they're new to most of her voters, but if Obama is drawing the "young" voters, it must be new to them as well, right? Plus, Bill won Caucus elections when he ran--it seems kinda weird to me...

[krkaufman]

20. More of the campaign theme of victimization

Woe is Hillary, the victim of caucuses (for which she failed to prepare)

[roguevalley]

24. I'm sick of her bitching. she knew the rules going in and if she did

actually motivate people to vote for her in caucuses so she won them, there would be no complaints. Sore loser.

[krkaufman]

25. yeppers...! n/t