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Woflson: She Doesn't Have to Win Big in PA
On a conference call today, Howard Wolfson calimed that Obama expected to win Pennsylvania, and that a win of any margin for Clinton contitutes a failure on Obama's part and evidence of his inability to carry big states in the general.
This is THE crucial point of contention that should be obsessed over by the media for the next two and a half weeks. If she succeeds in yet agin moving the goalposts from huge victory required to any victory required, the media truly will be complicit in her comeback.








Comments (28)
She doesn't need a majority of the superdelegates, or the pledged delegates. She doesn't need to win the nomination. Heck, she doesn't have to be President either. She may just take her toys elsewhere and play by herself. Suck on that, America!
April 3, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did someone here order a ditch-digger? We got a call that a bar needed to be lowered again.
April 4, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
If they listen to Wolfson, at this point, they'll listen to anyone.
I haven't heard anyone in the Obama campaign say they will win PA.
Polls can be deceiving, (like Wolfson), so I'm sticking with what they said originally. Hillary wins by 15-25 points.
April 3, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
it is absolutely amazing how Wolfson lies repeatedly and with gustos and no one calls him out on it.These people act as if the Internet did not exist and the world could be shaped by their spinning reality and distorting the truth. George Orwell coined the eterm Newspeak in his great novel, 1984. We now have Clinton Misspeak: say whatever and spin everything your way, When caught Just say you It was a case of Mispeak.
http://spiritofobama.blogspot.com
April 3, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, as the Nazi's proved over and over again, the big lie seems to work better than little lies. It's so outrageous that you would be hard pressed to believe sonmebody could think us that stupid, so therefgore, it must be true. Except, in this case, it is demonstrably false.
I would challenge Wolfson to show a single poll (other than a few taken this week) that has ever shown Obama to be less than 10 points behind Hillary in PA. What a maroon. He brings new meaning to the word disingenuous.
April 3, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
YOU HAVE JUST INSULTED COCONUT COOKIES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!
"I would challenge Wolfson to show a single poll (other than a few taken this week) that has ever shown Obama to be less than 10 points behind Hillary in PA.
Why couldn't you just have called him a MORON????
April 3, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention the insult to the color maroon, which is an honorable hue as well...
April 3, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you mean macaroons?
April 4, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
It doesn't matter anymore. Wolfson can spin PA as much as he likes. It won't get Hillary the nomination.
April 4, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
This was not, by any means, meant to be a reply to Allsburg.
April 4, 2008 1:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's what happens when you blog at 1:00 in the morning.
April 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of maroons, coconut cookies are macaroons, but I share your dismay at the latest euphemistic cliche.
April 4, 2008 1:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Looney Tunes. Bugs Bunny. "What a Maroon!" and "What an Ultra Maroon".
There is nothing latest cliche about those expressions. They are evergreens.
April 4, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Bugs_Bunny/ltbb_052.mp3
April 4, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
How long until this Wolfson asshole goes away???
April 3, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm predicting May 7.
April 3, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please make it so. Please. I'm begging you. Or anyone who will listen.
April 4, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama specifically said yesterday that he expected Hillary to win PA.
I don't think the MSM is going to fall for it like they have in the past. The fundraising numbers tell an important story. He held significant support through his worst month ever, and most important, his problems did not translate into support for Hillary.
I do expect PA to play out. But she needs to win big to hold the party at bay. If she doesn't -- if it's even an Ohio-sized win, the SD's will come forward to stop her from doing damage to Democratic chances in November. a 50-state infrastructure for down ticket races. These are things they understand.
He has a fine line to walk in PA -- he wants to keep expectations down but he can't look like he isn't invested in trying to win the state. Very difficult line.
March fundraising told the story, and the story will probably be worse once we know her primary/GE split on the 20M she raised. The grassroots reaction to the donor "threat" to Pelosi was impressive. A spike in donations to the DNC after their veiled threat to withhold support. Obama has deep, consistent support that is not going away.
April 3, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm guessing this won't go over so well with people like Murtha and others who have different ideas of what's needed to justify a nomination for Clinton.
It won't matter much before we have results, but I'm guessing that a small win in PA will result in a big confetti party for Clinton, and an outpouring of superdelegates from Clinton to Obama.
April 3, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
God, I thought this was a joke! I read through half the comments before I realized that Wolfson really said it. You can't parody this stuff, it's getting too surreal...
April 4, 2008 1:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
In fact, let me put it this way: if Hillary loses by less than 25% in Pennsylvania, she is so much more electable than Barack Obama. Like, I mean, by the power invested in her by the big states and all.
Sane people support Obama.
April 4, 2008 3:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I used to think it was spin to the point of crazy, but now I begin to wonder if the whole, entire Clinton campaign is mentally imbalanced. Talk about unelectable; what a terror it would be to have a president who behaved like the Clintons and their minions have behaved during this primary. They are really scary people.
April 4, 2008 3:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed. I'm frightened at any prospect of America being managed by these psychos.
April 4, 2008 5:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Reductio ad Hitlerum?
April 4, 2008 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
She doesn't need to win big in PA.
These aren't the droids we're looking for.
Go Hillary :/
Move along.
April 4, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
From the desk of:
Howling Wolfman
A Coronation is a Coronation. Princess Hillary Rambo Clinton needs no stinkin' delegates, she will just don her tiara and sceptre and attended the coronation ball in her Kevlar evening gown. Can never be too careful you know, what with snipers always trying to take her out.
April 4, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Since when did Pennsylvania count anyway?
Florida and Michigan to be counted. Those voters need a voice.
If the vote and delegate tally from all the primaries and caucuses does not support the certain winner in the fall, it should be disregarded.
Voters only matter if they vote correctly.
Count Florida and Michigan.
April 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going out on the limb.
Obama wins PA.
Hillary concedes the race that night.
Bill has a red-faced tantrum. (of course)
The Clintons sit up in bed playing cards 'til 2AM.
Hillary throws the cards up in the air and yells, "Fuck It!".
She puts on her horse blinders, turns over hard in the bed.
She springs back up and at the top of her lungs, yells, "So what! They don't count. Fuck the whole country!"
She looks over.
Bill masturbating.
She stares at him until he stops.
Then melts into the covers.
April 4, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
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