Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination

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Source: New York Times

She has to defeat Mr. Obama soundly in Pennsylvania next month to buttress her argument that she holds an advantage in big general election states.

She needs to lead in the total popular vote after the primaries end in June.

And Mrs. Clinton is looking for some development to shake confidence in Mr. Obama so that superdelegates, Democratic Party leaders and elected officials who are free to decide which candidate to support overturn his lead among the pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses.

For Mrs. Clinton, all this has seemed something of a long shot since her defeats in February. But that shot seems to have grown a little longer.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html

[rayofreason]

1. Latest polls...

Clinton by a large margin in Pennsylvania

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/pa/pennsylvania_democratic_primary-240.html

[emilyg]

2. TY

[Diane R]

3. Wait 'til they hear what she was doing for NAFTA behind the scenes, and realize she's been lying.

[Pastiche423]

4. I believe many Democrats

are tired of being lied to. Did she actually think her previous words would not back to bite her?

[TML]

8. Agreed

I can't wait to see how she handles that little lie.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Poll date 3/16. Speech date 3/18

Next week's polls will be very interesting.

[Up2Late]

5. Why did you edit out the first paragraph/sentence of this article? This isn't GD: Politics...

...This is LBN, we have certain RULES here. Sorry, but I don't even think this IS LBN, more like "Editorials and Other Articles"

Political Memo

Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: March 20, 2008

WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton needs three breaks to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Senator Barack Obama in the view of her advisers.

She has to defeat Mr. Obama soundly in Pennsylvania next month to buttress her argument that she holds an advantage in big general election states.

She needs to lead in the total popular vote after the primaries end in June.

And Mrs. Clinton is looking for some development to shake confidence in Mr. Obama so that superdelegates, Democratic Party leaders and elected officials who are free to decide which candidate to support overturn his lead among the pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses....

(more at link) <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>

[swag]

10. When I post in LBN, I choose the graphs I feel are most substantial.

One is limited to four.

Anyway, thanks for posting the first paragraph.

[Up2Late]

11. I'll tell you a little secret...

...about posting here, usually, when I see these single sentence "paragraphs" that it seems so many American newspapers are using as of late, I try to combined two or three of them into a actual paragraph. I don't consider a single sentence a "paragraph," and as long as it would really make sense for the two or three of the sentences to be made into a paragraph, nobody usually minds. BBC News is notorious for doing this. Most find it much less disturbing than dropping an important sentence to fit the four paragraph rule.

I'm not absolutely sure why the newspapers and wire services are doing this single sentence paragraph thing, really, but my guess is to fill all the white space that not doing it gives you if you don't do it that way. But another reason (and I know they do this at the AP, which is why I hate the AP) is that they often drop big (and sometimes important) chunks of the original article when they re-publish them with the AP. They claim it's to save space, but that's BS when talking about a "web only" article.

[JeanGrey]

6. She HAS no path. Geez, the mah is the math folks.

She cannot catch up in delegates and the SD's aren't going to vote for her over Obama. I'll be so glad when this nonsense is over. If we don't try to get it over McCain may end up winning!

[crankychatter]

9. Ah, the "Straight and Narrow Way"

She can't win in the popular vote although, if the polls remain the same, she'll come close in Pennsylvania to closing the gap.

Obama has a way of changing people's minds though... and with MSNBC doing what it's been doing... I wouldn't bet against Obama.

Nevertheless... CNN and other mainstream outlets are hammering away at him. Even PBS joined the fray with the weakest, most biased analysis I've ever heard on that network, after Obama's Speech the other day, (McNeil-Leher).

He's really such a mild progressive I'm still trying to wrap my mind around WHY they're trying SO hard to crucify him?

We'll only have ten weeks between the convention and the general election to campaign. This protraction is hurting us horribly.

My theory is this... Because Clinton advocates Medical reform that will entrench us deeply in "Competitive Managed Care," her declaration of "Universal Coverage" will be used to stave off the Single Payer movement indefinitely.

So, the Megapharms, Insurance Companies and HMOs (a very powerful bunch), are probably behind this. Obama is soft on neoliberalism and I don't think he's much of a threat to the Military Industrial Complex. Yup... that's my guess.

Did you know the Health and Insurance Industries donated more to Bush than the Energy Transnationals?