Obama Camp Mocks Clinton: Next She'll Want NCAA Bracket To Decide Race
The Obama campaign again accused Hillary Clinton of moving the political goal posts in her efforts to claim a legitimate shot of winning the nomination, this time suggesting (tongue-in-cheek) that college basketball could be used to pick the Democratic candidate.
"At some point we will get their NCAA bracket and it will be determined that whoever picked the most number of winning teams will get the nomination," said Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs.
Gibbs was speaking to reporters on a conference call on Tuesday. He declined to answer a direct question as to whether or not Clinton should -- with dwindling chances of winning -- drop out of the race, saying that Obama would never instruct his competitor on how to handle her nomination. But he did note, with a sense of playful analysis, that as Clinton continued to trail Obama in pledged delegates, states won, and popular vote, her campaign has changed the barometer of success.
This past week, Sen. Evan Bayh, a Clinton surrogate from Indiana, suggested that superdelegates should look at how each candidate would fair in electoral college votes in determining who should be the nominee. Such a system, the Clinton campaign said, had validity. Critics charge that state primary elections show little about how candidates would perform in a general election.





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March 25, 2008 12:03 PM