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Clinton Supporters Getting Nervous About Long Race
From TPM Campaign Wire:
"Obama-Backer Dodd: Clinton Supporters Getting Nervous About Long Race"
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http://tinyurl.com/63p8h5
Full text follows:
Obama-backing Senator says she has the “right” to stay in but seems to nudge her on CNN’s “Late Edition,” raising specter of down-ballot races:
“So while I fully respect the right of people to stay in a race and to test and challenge, at some point here national leadership has to step up and say, enough is enough. And candidly, an awful lot of democrats, even those who are supporting Hillary Clinton in this case are beginning to get nervous about where this is taking us, putting at risk congressional races, senate races, gubernatorial races and, candidly, the presidential race itself in November.”
And about time!
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Comments (3)
How would an extended primary race, where there's only a handful of states left effect down-ballot candidates, unless Dodd is worried that one camp's voters aren't going to come out in the fall?
April 6, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
"unless Dodd is worried that one camp's voters aren't going to come out in the fall?"
Yep, that's it. I think it is more the tone than anything. A long race isn't bad. A long race where you try to steal votes (MI and FL) and threaten an ugly floor battle and endorse the GOP candidate is.
April 6, 2008 9:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
We could probably disagree about your characterizations of her tactics, but as I recently blogged, I'm really not hearing all of this division from the general population. Some of the politicos and talking heads are up in arms and most of them benefit, either monetarily or through television appearances for being that way.
Maybe you could me being divisive and I like Chris Dodd as a Senator, though he'd only be my choice for president, if he somehow managed to get the nomination, but... He's some guy from Connecticut in his Daddy's seat, who announced his White House bid on Don Imus' show. So, I don't know how much political acumen you can assign to the guy about anything outside of the corridors of Congress.
April 6, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
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