Clinton: No Nominee On Tuesday

ABC News:

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., thanked Puerto Ricans Sunday night for helping her to victory on the island where she spent five days campaigning, saying "Te quiero Puerto Rico!" Her real message, however, was to the undecided superdelegates who Clinton hopes will veer her way to salvage her campaign.

Clinton's main argument is that she is leading in the popular vote, saying this evening, "More people across the country have voted for our campaign. More people have voted for us than for any candidate in the history of presidential politics. We are winning the popular vote. Now there can be no doubt. The people have spoken, you have chosen your candidate."

The senator argued that there will not be a nominee on Tuesday saying, "So, when the voting concludes on Tuesday, neither Sen. Obama nor I will have the number of delegates to be the nominee. I will lead the popular vote, he will maintain a slight lead in the delegate count. The decision will fall on the shoulders of those leaders in our party, empowered by the rules, to vote at the Democratic convention.

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Comments

[lthuedk 1]

Billary acts like it fears an investigation into it's globalist entanglements.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/Freedom_of_Choice.html

[marc1antony]

is that the same crystal ball that told you something cataclysmic will happen in June?

[amst]

I'm hearing that Clinton is NOT going to concede tomorrw. I have to wonder what she is up to. I really don't trust her. I can't why, after tomorrow, with no other primaries coming, she wouldn't gaciously concede. One possibility to mull over is this: We know how she hates to lose and how stubborn she is. We also know that she has some pledged delegates whom I'm sure she feels, "owe her" and maybe she's waiting to see who her friends are. Some of them I do believe are chickenshits that don't want to piss the Clintons off. Perhaps they are waiting to see if she concedes and it'll make going over to Obama easier. If that doesn't happen they may have hell to pay for crossing a "Clinton". After all, she does feel "entitled.­"

[Teritt]

Is there anything worse than 'thinking' you are hitting the 'reply' key and actually making the gravest of mistakes by marking a troll as a favorite? Yuck...I hate when that happens. Is there anyway to 'undo' a favorite, or is it like voting for someone in the primary and then changing your mind?

Honestly - it's the worst feeling to have to live with your profile showing a troll or a dittohead as a favorite. Any suggestions?

[MyGuyO]

Monday,6/2/8,

Both candidates picked up two superDs each today.

Ironically, Obama's two Supers today are from Michigan: Mayor Brenda Lawrence and Mich. Education President, Lu Battaglieri.

Thank you both so much!

[drblack]

It will be Wednesday. This is the day Obama will officially become the Democrat nominee for President.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

(Second try. Here's my two cents on Kos's Popular Vote taking it from Hillary and giving it to Obama.)

1) Some of those states had OTHER Dems still on the ballot at the time. Who's to say how either would have fared in a two-horse race?
IOWA, is the ultimate example:
(At that time, day one, I would suggest the crowded field detracted from Hillary, not Obama.)

2) Some of those states (e.g. Alaska) scale up to Party delegates from State delegates -- another level removed from individual voters' votes. (Such a mechanism compounds the advantage for leaders of prior tiers.)

3) Kos excludes all popular vote from Democrats Abroad, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands on the basis that these don't have electoral votes, and that if Hillary's argument is "electability" they should be excluded. Poppycock. The argument at hand is POPULAR VOTE. Period. Put 'em back.

4) Kos adds 237,762 votes for Undeclared in Michigan to Obama. Debatable, but more than the margin of victory in the analysis.

5) per Kos, it's 17.8 million for Obama -- 17.6 million of Clinton. A virtual TIE. And again, that's only after throwing OUT more votes (territories) than adding BACK (Michiganders) on a rhetorical sleight of hand.

Who wins is atch based on how one counts 200k out of 35 million -- a range of 0.5%.

It's a close to a perfect split as you can get.

UNITY 08

[tbone99]

The Dem Party chose to make the theme of the campaign about "historical firsts" instead of anti war &corporatism or even anti Republican policies.
They have been aided and abetted by the Obama campaign who cried racism every week for someone who supposedly was not a black candidate.­Now they have women trying to pay back Obama supporters for their participation in sexism "because racism trumps sexism "( to quote a poster on Huffpo.)

Who profits from this strategy?
Repugs, war profiteers and corporations.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

HuffPo scrubbers? Wassssssup?

[pleeezzze]

They're trying to keep it " Honest " !!

LOL

[BlueOnBlue]

Both Clintons are lawyers and know this old saying about the law very well...

"When the law is against you, pound the facts, when the facts are against you, pound the law, and when they’re both against you, pound the table and cry for justice”.

They've been pounding the table for some time now.

[gditty]

That's my girl....fe­ed their ignorance!

[PatrickforO]

True statement. At the end of the last two primaries on Tuesday, neither candidate will have all the delegates they need for the nomination. I suggest we be patient, because we can expect a deluge of superdelegates declaring for Obama beginning on Wednesday. I predict Obama will have all the delegates he needs, plus some, by the end of this week.

[ObamaEdwards]

This is just stupid. I blame the party leaders who are terrified of Clinton. They don't want her to have a meltdown, or send her dogs after them, so they have made excuses for Clinton for months. Oh, she's "coming to terms." Oh, she's laying the groundwork for a graceful exit. Oh, she's a fighter, and it's hard for her to let go. DEAN, PELOSI, REID: She is NOT leaving. She is delusional. You have to TELL her to go away, and stop running up debt she expects the party to help her pay off. Stop drawing attention and funding away from the only viable Democratic nominee. Clinton cannot seem to see that this is a blessing in disguise. If she ran against McCain, the GOP would eat her alive. They've wanted her to run, all along. Because they have so much ammo against the Clintons, when they finished nothing would be left and she would never have the nerve or backing to run for office again. So why are we still waiting for her to admit defeat? She will not admit defeat. She can't. It is now time for the party to push her off the boat.

[StandingStill]

I agree with you 100%! The Democratic LEADERS MUST step up and make this woman go away! She lost a long time ago, now she claiming to have the popular vote!

My God what won't she lie about? You change the rules in the middle of the game, and these rule changes give you an advantage and you honestly believe some one, Super Delegates, OWE you something.

Hillary Clinton, Go Away. Please Go Away!!!!!

[MyGuyO]

To ObamaEdwards poster...

My sentiments exactly. No truer words stated. Am afraid they (DNC) are being bullied by the Clintonista's as has always been the case. Absurdity, but that is the why politics must be played am afraid.

[eej]

On Wednesday it will be time for Hillary to carry out her pledge to "campaign my heart out for the nominee."

Was that just another Clinton lie?

Maybe she cannot stomach campaigning for him. Maybe she is refusing to acknowledge the nominee so she can get out of her promise.

[CrazyDemocrat]

Maybe she will try somehow to take this to the Supreme Court !!

[eej]

On Wednesday it will be time for Hillary to carry out her pledge to "campaign my heart out for the nominee."

Was that just another Clinton lie?