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Why Hillary will be the nominee.

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I am a fan of Fineman but as a contributor of MSNBC, he is just like Olberman, Matthews and the rest of this cable's attack machine against Hillary courtesy of the Obama campaign. I watched MSNBC before but now just part of my browsing because there mouth are all Obama praises and all Clinton bashes. They criticize FOX News for being bias but they are the ones eating their words now. When the news broke out in Chicago about Rezko and Exelon there never was a discussion about it. But when the news about Bill Clinton on the money he got from what Slovenia?, the network was very busy discussing it even if Bill Clinton was not the candidate.  Anyway, I will never count Hillary out. She will win in OH, TX, PA and more states. By that time there will be no clear frontrunner and the role of the superdelegates will come in. They still have to decide on what to do with FL and MI. Obama's campaign claimed that there should be a redo because they did not campaign there. However they were actively emailing and campaigning to vote uncommited but Hillary still won convincingly. They chose to remove their names in MI, Hillary kept hers. Smart move. In FL's case all their names were there in fact Obama ran advertisement in Cable Stations specifically MSNBC and CNN. Hillary did not and she still won overwhelmingly. And did you forget that the Florida primary happened after South Carolina momentum so they say? and Obama still lose. I think at this point of the game the superdelegates will not look at who has the most state won as Barack suggested but will look on who can go toe to toe with McCain in terms of experience specially in foreign policy and national security. Why? Because of the 21 states and territories that Obama won half of them has never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 4 cycles, almost half of them are caucuses where only the liberal activists can spend their time to stay for hours, all subject to pressure to vote for the candidates they promised to support. Not very democratic. You remember the caucus states where he won ID, ND, UT, NE, KS, AK, CO and SC and the primaries GA, AL, VA. When was the last time these states voted for a Democrat? He did not win in big Democratic bailiwicks like CA, NY, NJ, MA, MI. Hillary won in swing states like FL, AZ, NM, NH. She won 110 of the 115 districts in MO and AR can be a democrat get. Although he won in WA, ME and MN, these are caucuses, not reflective of the true picture of the electorate because as I've said only the antiwar radicals come to rumble. So with all these facts presented to these superdelegates, they will come into a decision of who can keep the Democrat strongholds and can pick up swing states. As a woman, between McCain and she, in the final decision women will come home and vote for her. And women comprise over 50% of the electorate. As shown in all exit polls from IA  to MD, late deciders chose Hillary, those who chose experience as their priority, majority voted for her. After the LA primary, CNN's exit poll said that among the white voters 2/3 voted for Hillary and that when asked if they will vote for Obama if  hewill be the nominee 2/3 said No. Is that not troubling for Obama? VA, DC and MD wins are given to Obama. This is the seat of the Clinton haters. No surprise. Their constant attacts of Hillary and Bill worked big and to their joy. I was watching MSNBC tonigh their eyes glee with happiness and they were making it as a big surprise, like an upset. It was not because we knew she will lose. She is not only fighting Obama she is fighting the entire US media, from print to cable, to internet to radio. That's World War Three she's facing but she is still there. She will survive and she will prevail. Obama's comment about the superdelegates is just inciting chaos. If he is for change don't change the rule of the game in the middle of the third quarter. Either he will agree to seat delegates for FL and MI or superdelegates will go away. That should be the fair solution.


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The Rezko story didn't take flight because there isn't much of one. The Chicago newspapers have poked and prodded in that story for years... Of course, you're going against every public poll about Hillary and Hillary vs. McCain with your assumptions, so what can we expect. Perhaps Hillary supporters are the ones blindly supporting a candidate?

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I don't think you understand a poll like that at this stage of the game. The only things those polls reflect are:
(1) If an Obama supporter is given the Hillary-McCain question, he is more likely to say Undecided; and
(2) If a Hillary supporter is given the Obama-McCain question, he is more like to say Obama. That is it.

With all due respect Mr Crescencio, the Obama campaign is still in crescendo.

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A lot of rhetoric here -- and no attention to the undeniable mathematics at work. Obama's got it unless Hillary changes the game in an incredibly dramatic way. Doesn't seem possible for her to do.

"She is fighting the whole US media."

Clinton and Clinton supporters are still not getting it. The victim thing isn't working. The louder you shout "NOT FAIR!" to anything that doesn't go your way looks like sore-loserism. Hillary would have been wise to say last night in her speech, "Well, my formidable opponent has won some great victories tonight. But I'm not giving up, I'm going to fight for your votes, just like I'm going to fight for you as President of the United States." The longer she spins her losses as being the result of media bias, or caucuses, or African-Americans, or whatever, the more she's going to be seen as a loser. A winner would acknowledge her defeats and strike a tone of defiance and confidence. So lets see that instead of this poor me stuff.

Hillary, this "Vidal" guy you've cooked up is very clever, but maybe you should get back on the campaign trail and stop writing these lengthy disquisitions... ;)

And, for future reference, the "return" key (also known as "enter") is the one that creates paragraph breaks. It's short for "carriage return"-- You know, Hill, just like the ones they have on those sweet IBM Selectric typewriters favored by your campaign.

Best of luck!

Obama's campaign claimed that there should be a redo because they did not campaign there.

Is this true? I know that the DNC has called for MI and FL to hold a re-vote, but I am not aware that the Obama campaign has requested as much. Can Mr Vidal or anyone else point me to an actual claim by the Obama campaign that the elections in MI and FL should be re-done?

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