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I don't think she should give up. I think she will lead obama in the remaining months.
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It is pretty much statistically impossible for Hillary to have more delegates than Obama coming into the convention. The coming races are extremely predictable. Obama will win Indiana and North Carolina and Clinton will win Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and West Virginia. All this pretty much translates into a negligible change in the spread of points. Even though each side wins, the other candidate also receives delegates. And although Hillary is most likely going to win the largest upcoming state- Pennsylvania, Obama will probably take the second largest- North Carolina. Also in the past couple weeks, Obama went from a near tie in support to an 8% lead. Large amounts of the Democratic Party are extremely fearful of Hillary going for a super-delegate dependent win, at the risk of the first black candidate's shot at the white house being destroyed by a bureaucracy outweighing the will of the people, alienating one of the strongest historical supporters of the Democratic Party, severely hurting their chances in November.
Of course all politicians have their moments, but I find Clinton's extreme embellishment of Bosnia in an attempt to seem more foreign-policy friendly worse than Obama's nearly harmless attempt at a connection with the Kennedy's. But whatever, both lies are bad.
I don't find the Wright situation too bad. I tend to agree with Obama when he compared him to an uncle (or grandpa or something) that says things you don't always agree with. I bet Wright was a pretty good Christian, he just went off on an extremist race tangent at times. I'm sure he wasn't ranting about the white devil while baptising Obama's children or presiding over his wedding. Obama has many good memories with him, and ignores him when he spouts hatred. Many of my friends have some old slightly racist grandparents. They love to hear stories, get presents, and go to Florida to visit them, and they love them very much, but sometimes they just have to ignore the occasional racist remark.
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My fave, now that Ron Paul is out of the running, would be a Clinton/Obama run, I'm rather sad to see that the politics of campaigning have made this a seeming impossibility. And, unfortunately, if what I've heard is correct (Hillary offered a VP slot, Obama turned it down in favor of Richardson),
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I agree. Although I don't really see it as an impossibility, but rather a potential inevitability. If this brutal and bloody battle goes to the convention, democrats will be so polarized they simply won't care as much come November when it comes to voting for someone who isn't their candidate. A simple solution? Whoever loses in Denver accepts the VP position in order to secure the democratic party and really kick McCain's ass in November.
And I'm not sure about the Richardson thing. As far as I know, Hillary started talking about being open to Obama being VP in order to create the appearance that a vote for her is a vote for both of them. I just remember Obama responding by saying that was a ridiculous assertion to make since she was losing at the time. I know he did his best to try and dismantle the idea that a vote for her elects them both, but I don't think he specified another VP, or completely ruled out the idea of them both being on the same ticket.