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Obama Ahead By Too Much, Leading Bloggers Call For His Withdrawal
With Barack Obama surging in the Gallup tracker, which shows him up by 10 points over Hillary Clinton and 2 over John McCain, influential voices renewed their calls for him to withdraw across this site today.
Goatlife, who cleverly tweaks our eventual nominee as "Snobama," led the charge. Billy Glad chimed in with the observation that Obama will surely lose pivotal Indiana, and not have enough delegates to win on the first ballot in Denver (apparently as superdelegates defy both the pledged count and Howard Dean's July 1 deadline) -- all over Bittergate.
Indeed, the fact that Obama leads McCain in a new Michigan poll, while Clinton trails McCain badly, lends badly needed implicit support for the call to withdraw. By implication, of course, Obama was up on McCain by 15 last week, before Bittergate, and Clinton down by 30, until a horde of miffed, angry guntoting deists left the Obama camp to join ranks with Hillary. By next week the transformation will be complete. And prosperity is just around the corner.
Clintonistas from coast to coast have found something else to agree with McCain about -- Obama is ahead by too much, and must step aside.
If you ask me, they sound bitter.
Comments (28)
After President Obama has just completed delivering his first Inaugural Address, From her home on Elba, Senator Hillary Rambo Clinton, The Heroine of Tuzla issues a statement that says:
Inaugural Addresses are just words; I demand that President Obama come to Elba and debate me on the issues that all the ecstatic unemployed god fearing gun loving people of small town America really care about.
April 14, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for putting her in Elba.
Nothing like a Napoleon reference to leaven the usual mix of Nixon comparisons.
April 14, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL.
Thank you.
April 14, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny!
April 14, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did I really say he would surely lose Indiana? You guys keep raising the bar on me. First allsburg, now you. Maybe I've been possessed by my avatar, too.
April 14, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
You pointed at Terre Haute and drew a line.
It was in the thread where you said she'd win on the second ballot.
April 14, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to live with that. I think I really said he has to win Indiana now to stay in the race. I don't want to rule out that she can stay in and win without winning Indiana, because that would get me in deep shit with allsburg who has me down for she wins if she wins PA. So now. She will win PA. She will win Indiana. She will be the nominee on or before the 2nd ballot. In addition. If she wins NC he will concede.
April 14, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Little known is that Iowa held its 2nd tier caucus last Saturday. Obama gained 9 delegates whereas Hillary lost one.
Obama: 12 April (3 January 2008)
52% (38%)
Hillary:
32% (29%)
National delegates:
Obama: 29
Hillary: -1 (lost a delegate) 17
West Virginia
Obama won most by 80% - 90%
Two newspapers in Pennsylvania endorsed Obama calling Clinton a polarizing figure. Obama also got 25 endorsements from the state legislation from all 4 corners of the state.
We'll see how this plays out -- Hillary has overplayed her card so it seems. She is not going to let this go. Claming Obama is an elitist thus unelectable because the GOP will call him an elitist, Hillary's false narrative will come and bite her in the a** considering Bill & Hillary made $109 million dollars since they left the WH. The republicans have called democrats elitist for decades.
So it goes on and on and on.... Enough already!
Hillary ought to stop tearing down her opponent and go after McCain! But she won't.
April 14, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
serena,
I can't find this. Do you have a link or reference of any kind?
April 15, 2008 7:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
??? The County conventions were held in March; the next level, the District conventions, will be held April 26. Later there will be a State convention. That's according to the Iowa Democratic Party website. Apparently most of the delegates to the National convention are selected at the District level, so that is where the action is.
Maybe someone has done some analysis of delegate movement based on the county results, but it looks like the 26th is the day to see any real action there. Meanwhile I'd take any claims of this nature with a grain of salt.
April 15, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is quite funny.
I have a feeling your gonna get hauled into a Canadian court...any minute now.
;)
April 14, 2008 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you workerbee. I'm glad to see that someone pays attention to Canadian law.
April 15, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
A headline worthy of The Onion.
April 14, 2008 11:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
The polls look good. Too good.
April 15, 2008 8:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but wait ten minutes and a new one comes out, announcing the reverse. This seems to be candidate-agnostic.
April 15, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Gallup (+11) and the Rasmussen show that she's killing herself among Democrats nationally by going negative on Obama so persistently over this.
The Gallup number should stop the fatuous argument that "bitter" is some kind of magic elixir for her. She may do 2 points better in PA and 5 or 6 better in IN with it, and she'll get beaten worse in NC, none of which changes anything.
Gallup's numbers are remarkably stable.
April 15, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E
More video from the fund raiser.
I promise this will be the last time I post this video.
April 15, 2008 8:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now, now. Be nice to the Hillaroids. Even the trolly ones. We need them to keep us honest and thinking. Otherwise we'd fantasize ourselves into a turgid alternate universe where black is white, up is down, ahead is behind, big is bigger and little is nonexistent, and the answer to 2+2 depends on who benefits from the math. You know, like you see at Hillis44.org and Taylor's fetid marsh.
Well, okay, you can be mean to creep-ass ice cream head avatar guy. And kefa.
April 15, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now, this is a great post.
Quote me on this:
He can't win the general, Clinton can win the general.
Not bitter but the truth is a bitter pill to swallow for Obama supporters.
They do swallow his bs.
Obama: "Hope And Anger Go Hand And Hand"
Um, Clinton gives hope without anger.
April 15, 2008 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Today's Gallup tracker, both Obama and Clinton beat McCain 46-44. Rasmussen, which I trust less, I think he's down 4, she's down 7.
Please use data to argue things like who wins general elections.
April 15, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me quote someone who has a deep understanding of this entire process.
"This is great news for Hillary!" - idiotic
April 15, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? Hope without anger huh? How about another war? Something both her, Bush and Cheney can all agree on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZL33nPoEU
April 15, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not over Wright? I'm so disappointed. They told me Wright was the outrage that was going to make all the SDs choose Hillary.
Hillary lied again.
April 15, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is a pathological liar.
April 15, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course he should withdraw. This is the year that the Clintons have ordained for Hillary. She's Hillary Clinton. She says she wants to win this year, so every one else is obligated to get the hell out of the way.
Plus she shoots guns and whiskey! That's Hillary Clinton: just one of us - except with $110 million that Bill made in Kazakstan somehow.
April 15, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Daily Snark Update
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/copy-of-storied-republican-pla.php
April 15, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't read other people's comments. Problem solved.
April 15, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of my closest friends is reasonably well placed in her campaign. It's not mortal combat. I like satire a lot better than shrill denunciation. It takes the edge off spirited disagreement.
April 15, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
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